British comedian Rowan Atkinson, the man who bring to life funnyman Mr Bean, was injured in a McLaren F1 supercar crash near Peterborough, England, yesterday. He sustains minor injuries and is expected to be discharge from hospital today.

Unlike the Mini-loving character Mr Bean, Atkinson is adept behind the wheel of a supercar as shown in this footage. But as fate would have it…

I recently sat for a test to get a Goods Driver’s Licence or what is known as GDL and passed with flying colours. A friend asked me why should I need that licence and whether I was considering a career switch. I told him it was just for fun. Did I have the fun I wanted then? Well, sort of.

It was fun because I was there attending the one-day course and the test a week later on my own free will.

… to be continued (got to step away from the computer for a while)

Cars with the intelligence matching that of a human have long been invented on the silver screen but no cars in our lifetime would ever reach this kind of sophistication. But just because we won’t live to see the day cars would act this way doesn’t mean the human race should not try to build cars like that.

On a more realistic front, Ford has teamed up with Google for a research project to allow hybrid cars to “think” when to use battery power and fuel power by predicting where their owners are going based on their established routines.

For instance, if the owner is going home from office and along the way home there is a long stretch of highway it may decide to shift to electronic motor during the period to conserve fuel.

I grew up with this statement hammered into my brain: that there is no way an automatic car can stall. You drive any automatic car and you can rest assured that it won’t fail on you as far as stalling is concerned.

So, I find to my amazement when the Kia Sportage SUV, a 2000 model, which we bought two years ago at a bargain, began its regular stalling several months later. It stalled just like that, without any provocation whatsoever, like for instance when I was reversing the car or when it was running at a slow speed.

Kia Sportage

First, it would jerk and then everything would become quiet and the steering wheel became stiff.

At first the stalling was rare, like once in a month, then it became regular, on a weekly basis, and early this year it was worse that it had become dangerous to drive the car. So I bought it to a workshop but they told me it was better if the problem was diagnosed by Kia. I went to a Kia service centre and told them the problem. Two days later I was told that the car needs several items replaced, namely the pressure hose, idler speed sensor, valve cover gasket and immobiliser. Yes, I said, get those parts and make the car run again.

At time this entry is written, I’m still waiting for the parts to be installed or to be ordered. The last time I check, all these items, except for the immobiliser, were “on their way” to the service centre and should be arriving soon. Let’s just hope they can do it this week.

A single tyre, abandoned in the desert, inexplicably comes to life in a new movie called “Rubber” and coming to the cinema on April Fool’s day this year. You may think a tyre coming to life is cute but this is not an ordinary radial because its intention is to kill.

The tyre’s first victim is a crow. See the trailer below:

Google’s driverless car has been voted TIME’s 50 Best Inventions of 2010. The car, based on the Toyota Prius, drove with only occasional human interventions a distance of 230,000km without any accident. That’s about five times of driving around the world.

There’s only one minor accident during the journey but that was not because of the car’s fault; it’s just that someone had just rammed into its rear while the car was stopping at a traffic ligit.

According to Wikipedia, the car utilises a system that combines information from Google Street View with artificial intelligence software as well as input from video cameras inside the car, a LIDAR sensor on top of the vehicle, radar sensors on the front of the vehicle and a position sensor attached to one of the rear wheels that helps locate the car’s position on the map.

Here’s a complete list of TIME’s 50 Best Inventions of 2010.

Headlights are the car’s eyes. And eyes should have eyelashes, shouldn’t they? And if headlights are the car’s eyes, there’s nothing wrong with dressing them up with eyelashes, isn’t it? Introducing Carlashes™, the long, curly eyelashes for cars.

Guys may be a little apprehensive about driving cars with eyelashes but the fairer sex may not mind at all.

It will surely make heads turn and lightens up the traffic. According to the team behind Carlashes™, there are several styles and shapes available to fit different headlight shapes.

Just tell them your vehicles make, year and model when ordering.

Other key features, as publicised on Amazon.com are: Flexible design bends around headlights, attaches easily with 3M double sided trim tape, designed to stay on your car at normal driving speeds and it will not damage paint. Interested? Buy them straight from Carlashes™ or via Amazon.com.