Barbaroux is also the founder and president of French manufacturer Formulec, which has produced the EF01 prototype car that is the base model for future Formula E cars.
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Its advanced engine-development centre, which opened this summer, hooks up an engine to a simulated computer model of an as-yet unbuilt prototype car, to see how well it performs.
While the enhanced system is just a prototype without a commercialization schedule, it already slots into just about any car, including the University's own intelligent car prototype (not pictured here).
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Inspired, Jaggi tested configurations in a lab and worked with a muffler shop to install a prototype on a car.
The advantages of testing cars virtually, rather than building a prototype or a mule car, are numerous.
There have been almost 100 Continental GT gatherings since early 2002, at which youngish movers and shakers sip champagne and ogle a fiberglass prototype of the sports car.
Now, six years after those initial discussions, and with sponsorship by General Motors, Mitchell and his team are soon to start work on a full-scale prototype of the City Car.
In 2007, a married couple with well-paid tech jobs in Singapore saw a prototype of a Japanese electric car and had a revelation.
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This week it unveiled a prototype version of its 7-Series saloon car that has a hydrogen-powered engine.
That race will debut a new set of rules by the race organizers, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, and it will see many of the world's great car makers competing with advanced hybrid prototype sports cars.
It slots in where the smartphone connectivity kit rests inside the armrest and, when a suitable LTE SIM is inserted (this prototype model was rocking Verizon) will utilize the car's antenna to get you great signal.
Car makers have already begun rolling out some of the features found on these prototype net-mobiles.
Daimler-Benz has been spared the embarrassment of making a decision to abandon the Family Car China, on which it spent tens of millions of dollars building a prototype.
That might not seem like a terribly difficult call, but after seeing ViewSonic's 150 ppi prototype at Computex, we're not so sure we'd go with the car.
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The "advanced active safety research vehicle" prototype uses ITS and existing Toyota technology to monitor whether the driver is awake, to keep the car on the road, and to stop at traffic signals.
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Indeed, the prototype has a distance-keeping system that will brake to a standstill, and move off again when the car in front moves.
Ford's prototype system aims to lessen distraction by taking readouts from biometric sensors and combining the data with information from the car, including speed, steering-wheel angle, and data from radar sensors or cameras used in blind-spot obstacle detection or cruise control.
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The LF-A supercar prototype, equipped with a 500-horsepower V-10 engine, is a follow-up to a concept car Lexus debuted on the 2005 auto show circuit.
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