27 Jul 2012
Folly Friday returns again to focus on the lighter side of the car industry and motoring! This week features...
Control your car with winks, nods and arm waves
Ever wanted to control your car instruments with your face? Or with your arms like you're playing with an Xbox Kinect?
In-car entertainment providers Harman will soon have you covered, for it has developed a system which puts infra-red sensors behind the dashboard, which then can read facial expressions and gestures as commands for a car's onboard equipment.
With the sensors in place, a driver won't even have to push a button to activate gadgets. A simple wink will turn the radio on or off, a nod to the left will turn the speakers up while a nod right will reduce the volume, you could even change station by tapping the steering wheel.
Making a phone gesture with your hand (like you're appearing in a Phones4u advert) will even answer calls on a car's Bluetooth input.
The makers of this technology insist you'll be able to use it whilst keeping your eyes on the road at the same time, giving you a new way to drive and look funny at the same time.
Just make sure you're not rocking out to Black Sabbath when you go for a pint of milk...
Hit and Run driver takes out four scooters, paramedics simply drive past
This onboard car footage is shocking in several ways as it captures a hit and run collision involving another vehicle in the midst of a busy central road in Taiwan.
After recklessly driving through a red light and knocking down four scooter drivers, the offending driver takes a couple of glances at the damage he's made before driving away.
What's really baffling though is seeing all the many car and scooter drivers continue past the immediate aftermath of this collision in a seemingly indifferent manner, with the exception of one single passer-by.
Just to add more salt to the wounds an ambulance van drives straight past the stricken scooter drivers at one point!
Maybe the ambulance was already trying to get patients urgently to hospital, but still the general reaction from other traffic to the crash suggests it's an alarmingly common occurrence in Taiwan...
Funeral Directors are Britain's 'naughtiest drivers'
Research from the car insurance comparison website tiger.co.uk has uncovered how far on average drivers in certain jobs travel before committing a driving offence.
Out of 313 occupations listed, the results remarkably show that Funeral Directors drive the least distance before breaking the laws of the road, which has seen them labelled Britain's 'naughtiest' drivers.
They are followed closely by dancing teachers, haulage contractors and landscapers at the top end of the naughty list.
At the opposite end of the scale dentists, legal clerks, cloakroom attendants and (most surprising of all) students are found to be better at keeping within the rules of the road better than most.
Police officers meanwhile ranked 196th on the list out of all the occupations covered.
BMW cars painted by Warhol and Hockney on display at London 2012
In case you haven't heard the Olympics are at London this year.
BMW is one of the main sponsors for this year's event, and one interesting part of their tie-up this week is the free-to-attend exhibition of the BMW Art Car Collection. The event showcases paintjob designs from professional artists spanning 35 years from 1975 to 2010.
There's plenty of wild and funky pieces of work to see like the BMW M3 GT2 seen above. It was designed by American artist Jeff Koons and even raced at the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Teens' car park abduction hoax leaves police not amused
Over the years there have been many stunts involving teenagers and cars that have gotten captured on video and online, all daring and mostly stupid.
Police in New York would certainly add this particular stunt to the list of stupid, which saw three teens, a 17-year-old male, a 16-year-old female and a juvenile girl fake abduction.
The 'suspicious incident' took place at night in a supermarket car park in Syracuse, New York. Here CCTV caught what appeared to be a man putting an unconscious woman in the boot of a car.
Syracuse Police never actually called the incident an abduction, but found it impossible to ignore. They were troubled by how blatant it was, even in front of witnesses who were shopping at the time.
"It's almost like he wanted someone to see it," said Syracuse Police Sgt. Tom Connellan in a press conference. "That's why we don't know what we have here".
When the incident was publicised by police, the three teens came forward and confessed to the prank.
The teens could now face charges for the act which Sgt. Connellan described as "incredibly stupid".
And finally...
Is this Australian advert for Ford Ecoboost the goriest car promotion ever? (Not recommended if you're a fan of Toads)
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