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The Driver Behaviour Project explores providing drivers with a personal score, based on various driver inputs, and accessed via a prototype driving app.

Now here's a helmet that sends out a distress call in case of a two wheeler accident. A Thai company is working on a helmet that makes use of basic smartphone tech such as a SIM card, GPS, impact sensors to send the precise coordinates of the accident site to emergency medical services.

We've always maintained that electric cars in any form should never be underestimated and many a car manufacturer has showed us how electricity can transform the car and its performance. So, when we heard about an electric dragster, we weren't really surprised. It's called the Electric Fox and it hit the Tierp Arena in Sweden where it managed to take down the European record for an electric dragster in the quarter mile.

We'd already told you about Porsche wanting to build more hybrid cars but the verticals keep on growing. Taking another step in this direction, Porsche's Supervisory Board has approved the founding of Porsche Digital GmbH, a company which will further develop Porsche as the leading provider of digital mobility solutions in the premium automotive segment.

Japanese auto giant, Toyota has recently entered into a partnership with the inventor of Segway, Dean Kamen to develop better mobility solution for the disabled abled and elderly people.

Ford has revealed the all-new 2.0-litre, 4-cylinder Eco Blue diesel engine, which promises to offer better efficiency and performance. The new engine can be tuned to produce power outputs ranging from 100PS to 240PS in future cars from Ford. The engine has been developed by Ford R&D teams in UK and Germany.

Chancellor Angela Merkel told carmakers on Tuesday that they should soon be able to test self-driving vehicles on German roads by promising to remove legal barriers.

In a recent test, Ford's engineers turned off the headlights, donned some night-vision goggles and sent their prototype Fusion sedan on a drive through the company's test track in Arizona.