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Here’s What A Modern NSU Ro80 Might Look Like, Why Not?
There are certain cars that have a timeless quality to their designs, a glorious mix of form and shape and proportion, but almost always tethered to their particular era. But at least one car feels like it could be timeless with minimal changes: the NSU Ro80.
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Cadillac’s Three-Phase Rear Lighting System Is An Under-Appreciated Taillight Landmark
That’s right, friends, it’s time again for us to enroll in Taillight University, because taillight appreciation and knowledge doesn’t take holidays. Today I want to address the strange but recurring fetish in Taillghtdom for the White or Clear Taillight, and to specifically focus on the pioneer of this trend, Cadillac’s Three-Phase Rear Lighting System.
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Running Car ‘Faces’ Through An AI Face-Processing Algorithm Is Amazing And Terrifying
You may have heard recently about a new AI algorithm designed to extrapolate what a face looks like from really poor-quality, low-resolution sources, called Face Depixelizer. The tool is pretty remarkable in how incredibly naturalistic the resulting faces that it generates look, though if we’re honest what you’ve likely heard about it has more to…
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Why I Had To Bail My Parents Out Of Jail For Attempted Murder When I Was 16
I realise that most of you come here to read about cars, which is fortunate, as that’s what I spend most of my non-eating waking hours thinking about. This story about having to bail my parents out of jail for attempted murder isn’t so much about cars as it is a strange tale of wrongful…