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Mar 24, 2022

With 21 Flights Under its Belt, Ingenuity is Getting a Mission Extension

Posted by in categories: alien life, transportation

Ingenuity, the helicopter currently zipping its way around Mars, has been a hotly watched topic here at UT. After completing its 21st mission and being on the planet for a little over a year, Ingenuity’s handlers have officially extended its mission in the hopes that it will continue its stellar, groundbreaking performances.

Perseverance, Ingenuity’s rover companion, is transitioning into its second scientific campaign, where it plans to travel 130 meters up from the Jezero crater floor to a dried-up river delta. Here it will focus on one of its primary missions – searching for evidence of ancient life on Mars. And Ingenuity will help lead the way.

Even Ingenuity’s path to the river delta, which isn’t limited to staying on the ground, won’t be easy. It will likely take three separate flights to get to a new staging area in the delta, including one that goes around a hill that rises off the crater floor. During this time, it will help scout a pathway for Perseverance to take, including providing information to decide which of two river channels the rover should take to reach the delta itself.

Mar 23, 2022

Study suggests how much competition in the urban ride market can grow before gridlock sets in

Posted by in category: transportation

In theory, competition among ride-hailing companies should be a good thing, providing more options for consumers. In practice, having too many ride-hailing vehicles adds to urban congestion. How can cities balance these factors?

A new study co-authored by MIT researchers, in collaboration with the Institute for Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council of Italy, provides a model that shows the extent to which ride-sharing competition clogs the streets—allowing analysts and policymakers to estimate how many vehicles and firms might form an optimally-sized market in a given metro area.

“What this shows is that by not coordinating ride-hailing companies, we are creating a huge amount of additional traffic,” says Carlo Ratti, a professor in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and co-author of a new paper detailing the study’s results. “If cities were to use a platform to coordinate ride-hailing, we could reduce overall congestion and traffic in cities all over the world.”

Mar 22, 2022

Musk reveals plan to scale Tesla to ‘extreme size’

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, transportation

Elon Musk signaled plans to scale Tesla to the “extreme” while teasing the release of Tesla’s “Master Plan Part 3” on Twitter one day before opening the automaker’s first European factory.

On Monday, Musk revealed on Twitter the themes that will dominate the next installment in Tesla’s long-term playbook: artificial intelligence and scaling the automaker’s operations.

“Main Tesla subjects will be scaling to extreme size, which is needed to shift humanity away from fossil fuels, and AI,” Musk tweeted. “But I will also include sections about SpaceX, Tesla and The Boring Company.”

Mar 22, 2022

Oxford Researchers Train AI Two Times Faster With a Simple Mathematical Trick

Posted by in categories: information science, mathematics, robotics/AI, transportation

The algorithm estimates how weights will need to be altered on the forward pass, and the estimates perform comparably to backpropagation.

Mar 21, 2022

Even the sky is not the limit

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Good news electric vehicle enthusiasts, Tesla owners, and Elon Musk fanboys: Musk has announced that he’s working on Tesla Master Plan Part 3.


“Looks like Musk enjoyed @danahull’s latest @hyper_drive newsletter column reflecting on Tesla’s master plans and its missing affordable EVs. https://bloom.bg/3667rlp

Mar 21, 2022

At Last, a Self-Driving Car That Can Explain Itself

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Mitsubishi’s AI not only improves performance, it also fosters trust.


Mitsubishi’s Electric AI not only improves performance, it also fosters trust.

Mar 20, 2022

AI and Human Enhancement: Americans’ Openness Is Tempered by a Range of Concerns

Posted by in categories: economics, information science, policy, robotics/AI, surveillance, transportation

Developments in artificial intelligence and human enhancement technologies have the potential to remake American society in the coming decades. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that Americans see promise in the ways these technologies could improve daily life and human abilities. Yet public views are also defined by the context of how these technologies would be used, what constraints would be in place and who would stand to benefit – or lose – if these advances become widespread.

Fundamentally, caution runs through public views of artificial intelligence (AI) and human enhancement applications, often centered around concerns about autonomy, unintended consequences and the amount of change these developments might mean for humans and society. People think economic disparities might worsen as some advances emerge and that technologies, like facial recognition software, could lead to more surveillance of Black or Hispanic Americans.

This survey looks at a broad arc of scientific and technological developments – some in use now, some still emerging. It concentrates on public views about six developments that are widely discussed among futurists, ethicists and policy advocates. Three are part of the burgeoning array of AI applications: the use of facial recognition technology by police, the use of algorithms by social media companies to find false information on their sites and the development of driverless passenger vehicles.

Mar 19, 2022

Tesla Clears a Big Obstacle for the Model 3 and Model Y

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Tesla had a rough start to the week, but the company is finally getting some good news to end it.

Mar 19, 2022

Porsche has just made a stunning prediction for 2030

Posted by in category: transportation

Mar 19, 2022

A Stunt Pilot Just Shattered the World Tunnel Flight Record

Posted by in category: transportation

It will be a webcast live next month.

On April 25, two pilots, Luke Aikins and Andy Farrington will jump out of their single-seater aircraft and attempt to switch planes as they plummet towards the Earth, energy drink company, Red Bull has announced on its website.

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