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This Tron-inspired bike brings 80s cyberspace to street races

It’s no coincidence that Lotus’s new motorcycle the C-01 looks like a light cycle from Tron: It was designed by Daniel Simon, the automotive futurist who redesigned the iconic bikes in Tron: Legacy. Note the elongated unibody, the large prominent tires, and the severe forward position that the rider

The cars of the future will be spherical Volkswagens with VR headsets

Volkswagen has plopped a strange, spherical, futuristic car simulator in the middle of shopping malls. It’s called the 4DX and it looks like a Beetle crossed with the escape pod from 2001. To actually give shoppers a taste of how driving this beast into the singularity might feel, it comes equipped

Dawn of the Plow is the lone bright spot of this miserable winter

The South is recovering from paralyzing winter weather just as Dawn of the Plow came out. Coincidence? I think not. This little game about a trusty truck with a plow on front clearing the icy roads for vehicles is just what the nation needed, unless you’re in Austrailia, in which case enjoy your hea

How Forza 5 uses the cloud to create more human A.I.

Forza Motorsport 5 is launching with the Xbox One, which means we will all soon be racing shiny expensive roadsters against a sentient supercomputer A.I. that’s based in the cloud, eyeing our every move.  “First we have to see what it’s going to continue learning, once there’s a million people train