geekosystem

Emma Way, billed as a human being but likely some sort of malevolent hate monster with a blonde wig, had a Twitter account once. Presumably, in her efforts to pass as a human, she tweeted about things she ate and what her friends were up to and many trivial things. A couple of days ago, though, Way tweeted about knocking a bicyclist down with her car and then driving off, because hilarious, right? Sorry, that joke really only lands if you're a sadistic nightmare demon. Police in the English city of Norwich, though, didn't share Way's dark sense of humor, though, and the young woman is now facing legal trouble, which is what happens when you hit someone with a car. 

Our buddies over at Slacktory recut the 1971 Steven Spielberg movie Duel, replacing most of the audio with that of a driver's ed filmstrip from 1949. The result is pure genius, as well as a great way to watch pretty much all the important parts of the movie in just under four minutes.

If you live in North Carolina and want to buy an electric car from Tesla motors, here's hoping you already did that, because doing so stands to get a lot more difficult in short order. A bill moving through the state legislature there would make it illegal for Tesla -- or any other car manufacturer -- to sell cars directly to consumers in the state.

The Streisand effect is a powerful, powerful thing. When you attempt to purge the Internet of some kind of media that's gone public, all you're going to do is draw even more attention to said media. Everyone should really know by now that the cat really doesn't effectively go back into the bag once it's out. It's just common sense, or so we thought. Case in point: Hyundai's been trying to cleanse YouTube of their recently pulled suicide ad.

Gas stations don't tend to feature prominently here on Geekosystem, but when they do the stories tend to be pretty epic. Over this past weekend, gas stations suddenly got even more interesting when three stations in New Jersey were mistakenly refilled with jet fuel, and they then passed said jet fuel on to the cars that refueled at them. It's unclear how many automobiles were affected by the mix-up, but none of them were suddenly capable of breaking the sound barrier, so there goes that dream.

It's no secret that we find various iterations and renditions of Van Gogh's Starry Night both impressive and amusing. We've seen it recreated in bacon, and made out of doorknobs, but if you've never seen Van Gogh's famous work painted in wonderful detail driving down the road on the way to the grocery store, we've got a few Starry Night vehicles below with which you can fill that void in your life.

Red-light cameras are the bane of law-abiding citizens across the United States. In theory, the cameras should catch criminals looking to take advantage of the fact that the police can't be everywhere at all times. In reality, the process is automated and can fail spectacularly when it does. Case in point: Lauren Morosoff had her driving privileges revoked over a ticket issued by a red-light camera in New Jersey a year and a half after she left the state.

Google's been testing self-driving cars for some time now. It is known. Most of this has been private tests, conducted on approved courses. Following in the footsteps of Nevada, however, California has now approved Google's autonomous cars for their roadways -- in a trial capacity, anyway. Google will still be required to have a human handler present to take over if needed, but all the heavy lifting will be accomplished by the car itself. Obviously, Skynet has already won.

Toyota introduced an all-electric variant of its iQ minicar, called the eQ, back in 2010, but the actual development of the vehicle hasn't apparently been all unicorns and sunshine. The car company has revealed that they've backed off their rather grandiose plans and will now only sell about 100 of the eQ variants in the United States and Japan.

Automated personal transport might not be quite as far away as one might think. Google's fleet of self-driving cars has now completed more than 300,000 miles of testing under computer control without a single accident. Though the company has not yet mentioned precisely how many of these miles were garnered on public roads, the total is still impressive. In addition to this, Google has announced that members of the team will begin driving the cars solo rather than in pairs.

Whenever you take a road trip, it's inherently in some sort of road vehicle. As part of our ongoing sponsored content series with Lincoln, we swoop in like heroes to save your road trip from boredom with a list of some essential gadgets you should really bring along.

We've all been there. Not being able to fall asleep the night before a road trip, full of anticipation, and excitedly waking up the next morning after only having slept a couple of hours. With the car already packed the night before, you hop in with your buddy, and off you go. The thing is, about two hours into the trip, you realize you're now stuck in a car for the better part of week, and man, there isn't much to do other than watch cows as you drive by them, and listen to radio stations fade in and out as you pass through different states. If only you checked some sort of list of vital gadgets to bring on a road trip before you headed out into the great paved unknown; some sort of list like this one, actually.

Folks over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have crafted what they are calling an "intelligent co-pilot"  for cars. Essentially, the car performs a series of calculations whilst someone is driving and then decides whether or not it needs to take the wheel to avoid any unfortunate accidents. Most programs of this kind are set to perform autonomously and let the user sit back and enjoy the ride but this one instead only steps up to bat when something goes horribly wrong.

We humans love proving our species' superiority by recording videos of animals doing silly things to upload to the Internet. It truly is lovely to be the most advanced and intelligent species living on our little planet. We are so fortunate that we don't feel the need to eat cars as they pass us on the freeway. So sit back, crack open a brewskie with those opposable thumbs, watch this video, and revel in the glory that is humanity and also adorable dogs.

Bob Russell's 1967 Austin Healey 3000 was stolen 42 years ago in front of his Philly apartment, right after his second date with his future wife. You'd think the story ends here, with Bob living happily ever after with the love of his life. Nope. Sequels.

A bunch of thieves managed to hack into a BMW 1M coupe and drive it away in under 3 minutes, clean and quiet as you please. BMW's keyless entry system is apparently to blame, and there appears to be a lot of blame, because no one prefers losing their car to losing their car keys.