BMW’s new seven-seat off-roader will be built in the US and will be hitting the streets in 2016. The announcement was made during an event to celebrate BMW’s increased investment in its Spartanburg, South Carolina US production plant — a facility where pretty much all of BMW’s existing SUVs — the X3, X5, X5M, X6 and X6M are already built.
We talked about the Poland-based Arrinera Automotive and their Hussarya supercar and even though it looked nice, we never expected to hear about a possible production model.
Engineers at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) at the University of Sheffield have successfully printed a 1.5m-wide prototype unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for a research project looking at 3D printing of complex designs.
The third annual analysis of red-light safety cameras (photo enforcement) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) has found overall decreases in crashes, as well as decreases in the number of annual citations issued, for all program years.
A traffic control signal monitoring system—i.e., a Red Light Running (RLR) system—is an integrated device utilizing one or more cameras and sensors that work in conjunction with a traffic control signal to produce images of vehicles that disregard a red signal. These images are transmitted to law enforcement officials who review both still photos and video produced by the system to determine if a violation has in fact occurred.
The US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a final rule requiring rear visibility technology in all new vehicles under 10,000 pounds (4,536 kg) by May 2018.
