HighSpeed

Wild animals are a major safety concern on the Indian highways. We have seen multiple accidents caused by the wild animals. Here is one from a highway that shows how dangerous these animals are to the safety of the motorists. The dashboard camera video from a Hyundai Creta shows it cruising on a highway at a decent speed. It is likely to be more than 100 km/h and even more than 120 km/h as the speed buzzer is constantly warning about the speed. The relatively empty highway encourages drivers to maintain a decent…

Mahindra is among the few auto brands in India that haven’t engaged any brand ambassador for its lineup of passenger vehicles. Nevertheless, the former Australian cricketer and current cricket commentator, Matthew Hayden, previously associated with Mahindra as its brand ambassador in his home country, Australia, has been promoting Mahindra products like Scorpio-N and Pik-Up. Recently, Hayden was spotted driving the brand’s flagship SUV, the XUV700, at Mahindra’s test track in Chennai, accompanied by his daughter. A…

DARPA has announced the four companies that will compete for the contract to design, build and test an X-Plane demonstrator capable of high-speed cruise, hover and VTOL for its Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project. The SPRINT X-Plane will be "a proof-of-concept technology demonstrator and its flight test program seeks to validate enabling technologies and integrated concepts that can be scaled to different size military aircraft." Specific technical requirements for the demonstrator, according to Top…

The Earth just experienced a minor solar storm yesterday, July 17, that sparked aurora displays at some locations in high-latitude areas. But just as soon as this solar activity subsided, another, bigger problem arrived. In the early hours today, July 18, a big M6-class solar flare erupted on the unstable region of AR3363 on the Sun, as detected by the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory. Researchers believe this solar flare is more dangerous than X-class flares due to the long duration of the event. It has also released a…

Suspects involved in a high-speed law enforcement pursuit set off a panicked scene in Little Tokyo on Saturday evening after they jumped from their vehicle and sprinted though a popular shopping plaza, triggering a stampede of customers running for cover. The pursuit began about 5:30 p.m. after Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies attempted to pull over a vehicle that had been reported as being involved in a felony in Gardena, said Deputy Michael Chen. The driver rammed a patrol car and took off, Chen said. He could not…

Even after multiple occasions of getting caught on camera and then getting challan or even driver’s licence cancelled, there are many who keep on repeating the offence. Here is one incident where the driver of a Hyundai Verna tried to do drifting and lost control of his car and hit the divider. The whole incident was caught on camera by a person sitting inside the car. The video shows the Hyundai Verna driver going at a relatively high speed on an empty road. He suddenly moves the steering to his right. This causes the…

Earlier this week, India beat China to become the second on the list of the biggest network of highways in the world after the USA. However, many of us will still agree that the quality of the Indian highways is not optimum. While numerous accidents happen every day on Indian roads because of the bad roads, here is an accident caught on the dashboard camera that shows a Royal Enfield hitting a pothole at high speed. The exact location of this accident remains unknown. However, the video taken from a dashboard camera…

By Kavish Harjai and Seung Min Kim, The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday said that high-speed internet is no longer a luxury but an “absolute necessity,” as he pledged that every household in the nation would have access by 2030 using cables made in the U.S. “These investments will help all Americans,” he said. “We’re not going to leave anyone behind.” Biden announced that more than $40 billion would be distributed across the country to deliver high-speed internet in places where there’s either…

Last Updated: June 08, 2023, 14:07 ISTDelhi Metro Airport Express (Photo: Wikipedia)The UP government wants only six metro stations on this high-speed line so that it takes only half an hour from Jewar to reach New Delhi railway stationThe Uttar Pradesh government intends to build a high-speed metro link between the upcoming Noida International Airport in Jewar and Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. According to Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL) officials, the high-speed metro project via the Airport…

Cars breaking walls and emerging on the other side is something that we don’t see too often. Here’s a Tata Nexon caught in the rare act, of going through a wall and emerging on the other side. The accident might have caused due to the Tata Nexon becoming uncontrolled. However, the exact details are not available. The pictures show the Nexon going through the wall to the other side and getting stuck. There is not much damage visible on the Nexon as well. Also read: Hyundai Ioniq 5 electric car: New TVC released But do…