Those who saw the 1975 film “Death Race 2000” based on Ib Melchior’s short story “The Racer” might get a kick out of the 2008 remake written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson simply titled “Death Race.”

In a future America, prison inmates are forced to compete against each other in a driving arena. The prison warden forces a prisoner (Jason Statham of “The Transporter”) into becoming a driver, and he becomes a crowd favorite known as “Frankenstein.”

The cars in “Death Race” are deadly as the title implies. Take a gander at these awesome road machines, view the images here but don’t take these cars out on the road!

By Reed Stevenson
Reuters

AMSTERDAM — Next time you’re stuck in traffic on the way to an unfamiliar destination, navigation device pointing the way, look around.

Chances are, there are other drivers just like you, staring back and forth between the tail lights ahead and the little screen with a digital map instructing you to stay on the road — a road often clogged with bumper-to-bumper traffic.

A new wave of personal navigation devices, led by TomTom of the Netherlands, promises smarter, more reliable traffic information to help them avoid road congestion and find alternate routes to their destinations.

Traffic information on navigation devices has long been available over radio frequencies and more recently, over mobile data connections, by using information from traffic cameras and sensors on the road.

Garmin, TomTom’s main rival, has a deal with Sirius XM Radio’s XM Satellite Radio to offer traffic information across North America.
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