Tesla’s in-car visualizations for features like Autopilot and Full Self-Driving might be getting an upgrade with a switch to Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. As reported by Not a Tesla App, Tesla hacker greentheonly says they found evidence of the change in Tesla’s 2025.20 firmware for Tesla Model S and Model X cars.
It wouldn’t be surprising as the use of standardized tooling is almost always cheaper than making your own. Article here.
First there was the thinnest car, then the lowest car – now there’s the shortest car? Hosted by 2 excitable Italian guys from Carmagheddon.
Tutti Pazzi Per Marazzi most recent project is to modify a Fiat Panda and make it only 20 inches wide. Perhaps the thinnest car in the world?
This longer video shows how he did it.
Carmagheddon took this FIAT Panda hatchback and turned into the lowest drivable vehicle. You can watch the full build process Part One and Two.
It’s a bit dated (2017), but Josh Hammond on IOActive presents some of the things he learned from automotive vulnerabilities.
Some neat new features on recent cars found in China. It’s also a lot more things that are likely to break and cause expensive repairs – but still pretty cool ideas on paper.
Justin the Light Guy outfitted his Dodge Challenger Scat Pack with an LED grid up front and created animations to make it appear as if the car is singing
SRO Motorsports is a Twitch channel showing off semi-pro racing. What makes it all interesting is that it shows off what just a few people can do. What would have taken a huge TV crew is being done by just a few folks.
It was exceptionally fun because the 2 commentators respond to the chat questions live while narrating the race. You could ask just about anything about rules, ages, etc and they would just respond on-air. One of them even ran off between heats to grab them both some food from the on-track food carts. People in the stands watching were commenting live on chat. The racers range from 17 year olds all the way up to 40+ and they use cars that are not that different than ones you might have as a daily driver.
People asked about getting started in racing and they even answered those question (you get a driving certificate for racing via schools like Skip Barber driving school) as well as lots of interesting tidbits about rules and behinds the scenes knowledge.
Mark Rober tested out both a Lexus equipped with lidar, and a Tesla that uses just visible light cameras. He wants to see if which of the systems will fall for a variety of tests that could fool self-driving cars. Including painting a fake road on a brick wall.
Bonus points, he took a lidar onto his ride of various Disneyland rides. He tries to see if by just bringing his lidar on Space Mountain if he could map and 3D print it. Results of that at 16:25
James Bruton has made a number of omni-directional vehicles, now he creates a omni-directional bike that uses balls for the wheels.