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McLaren plan to make windscreen wipers obsolete

McLaren plan to make windscreen wipers obsolete Much of the ‘clunkiness’ in cars – stuff like wind-up windows and a cranking handle – have been made obsolete in cars as technology arrived to make things work better, but one thing that remains on modern cars from the dawn of the motoring age is the windscreen wiper. Invented by Mary Anderson in 1903 after she realised drivers of the first motor cars were having to lean out of the window in rainy conditions to see where they were going, it became a standard fitting on all cars within a few years. Windscreen wipers have certainly improved over the years as technology has developed, but they’re still basically a strip of rubber moving across the windscreen to clear rain.

2013 Ford Fusion sedan to have stop/start technology as an option

The redesigned 2013 Ford Fusion will help you save gasoline when stuck in traffic. The new Fusion's 1.6-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine can be fitted with stop/start technology. The cost?

California leads the way with Hydrogen cars

The Governator in his hydrogen-powered Hummer [ad#ad-1] Now this is something I really approve of. As many of you will have seen on last week’s Top Gear, May was out playing with the Honda’s FCX Clarity in California, and commented, just as we have, that this is the real way forward for electric cars. The Honda FCX Clarity is the first proper road-going Hydrogen powered vehicle to hit the roads.