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Bugatti Chiron Breaks 300 MPH Barrier With 304 MPH Run, Sets New World Record
The Bugatti Chiron just became the first production vehicle to break the vaunted 300 mph barrier.
Driver Andy Wallace, who previously set the world speed record back in 1998 with a McLaren F1, piloted a prototype derived from the W16-powered French hypercar on Germany’s Ehra-Lessien test track.
German technical organization TUV certified that Wallace pushed the slightly modified Chiron, which is electronically limited to 261 mph straight from the factory, to an almost unimaginable speed of 304.773 mph.
“It’s inconceivable that a car would be capable of this,” Wallace said in a Bugatti press release. “But the Chiron was well prepared and I felt very safe – even in these high-speed ranges,”
He worked his way up to the mind-boggling threshold 30 mph at a time, ensuring that the Chiron’s lift and downforce were optimally balanced at each increment. At max speed, he covered nearly 450 feet in one second.
“I went at full throttle from the start for approximately 70 seconds. It was important for me to be out of the bend at [about 125 mph] in order to reach top speed on the straight. That required the very highest level of concentration.”
“[It’s] An incredible achievement that shows what the men and women of Bugatti are capable of,” added Bugatti CEO Stephan Winkelmann. “Bugatti was the first to exceed 300-mile-per-hour mark. Its name will go down in the history books and it will stay that way forever.”
With this incredible benchmark set, it’s only a matter of time before another performance automaker produces the next member of the new 300-mph club.
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RoomMe sensors know who’s in a room to adjust it automatically
A RoomMe Personal Location Sensor (PLS) installed in a home. | Image: Intellithings
Imagine a home that’s smart enough to adjust the temperature, lighting, or music based on who’s in a room at any given time. That’s what a company called Intellithings is promising with its new RoomMe sensors, a former Indiegogo campaign that’s now shipping globally.
The big caveat here is that RoomMe works by pairing with a person’s smartphone, not their meat sack. So if members of your household are in the habit of coming home and setting their phone on a charging pad or leaving it in a bag on the kitchen table, then RoomMe is already defeated.
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