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Jan 31, 2020
Video: British engineer rockets to new record
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: engineering, transportation
Britain’s Tom Bagnall has always enjoyed making new things and has always been passionate about engineering.
Which explains why he was keen to be the person to set the Fastest speed in a jet-propelled go-kart after joining a jet-car team as one of the pit crew.
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Jan 30, 2020
Elon Musk: Tesla faces battery woes, but future will ‘blow people’s minds’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation
So what’s Tesla to do? The answers may come in the Battery Day, a forthcoming explainer that could take place in April. The day is expected to be similar in setup to the Autonomy Day in April 2019, where Musk explained to investors the company’s progress on full self-driving capabilities.
What will they show? One of the standout features may be the company’s Maxwell Technologies acquisition. The $218 million deal, announced February 2019, brings in a firm working on exotic technologies like dry electrodes and ultracapacitors. The firm has also identified a pathway to raising battery density to 500 watt-hours per kilogram. Current batteries tend to weigh around 300 watt-hours, but a jump to 500 could enable advanced uses like an electric plane.
Musk confirmed during Wednesday’s call that Tesla is working with Maxwell, while also stating that its ultracapacitor technology is an “important piece of the puzzle.” This exotic technology could transform how energy is managed within the car, and Musk was actually planning to do his PhD at Stanford University on them before he dropped out.
Jan 30, 2020
Pininfarina inkless metal pen will write forever
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: transportation
Car design firm Pininfarina has designed an inkless pen with a metal nib that will write without ever running out.
Jan 29, 2020
Designer Vladimir Pirojkov and his spacecraft
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: transportation
Industrial designer Vladimir Pirojkov was called upon to work on the interior design for a new spacecraft for the Russian Space Agency. Here he talks about the experience.
Can you tell us a little about your background?
My roots are in the transportation industry. I graduated from Art Center College of Design in Switzerland. My first job was as a Citroen interior designer in Paris. After six years I moved to Nice in the south of France to join the Toyota Europe Design Development Centre as senior interior designer. It was a great experience, where many countries and cultures met and learned from each other. We worked on projects for show cars and some for on-the-road production vehicles. In 2007, I returned to Russia to work on the future of the world.
Jan 28, 2020
Facing Up to Facial Recognition
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: education, robotics/AI, terrorism, transportation
I’m excited to share my new opinion piece on AI facial recognition and privacy for IEEE Spectrum:
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.
Many people seem to regard facial-recognition software in much the same way they would a nest of spiders: They recognize, in some abstract way, that it probably has some benefits. But it still gives them the creeps.
Jan 28, 2020
Tesla gives Chinese owners free Supercharging during coronavirus outbreak
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: transportation
Tesla China is notifying customers that, due to the coronavirus outbreak currently happening in that country, all Tesla vehicles will have free supercharging to facilitate travel until the outbreak is resolved.
Jan 28, 2020
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Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: sustainability, transportation
Jan 28, 2020
DeLorean Comes Clean, Confirms Plan to Produce New DMC 12s
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: law, transportation
Among the hardest games to play, we find the waiting game. The lore of the DeLorean being produced once again has been floating around the watercooler for some time now. Most recently, rumors pointed to 2016 being the return of the DMC 12. However, due to changes in regulations, it would appear as if the revival wouldn’t exactly be legal. Let’s just say that low-volume auto manufacturers have some hurdles to jump over. These regulations would make the hurdles impossible for DeLorean.
That all changed.
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Jan 27, 2020
We’re All Going to Live in Mushroom Houses on Mars
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: space, transportation
NASA is sharing information about its myco-architecture program, in which experimental fungus-based building technologies could be the feasible future of Mars habitats. “Science fiction often imagines our future on Mars and other planets as run by machines, with metallic cities and flying cars rising above dunes of red sand,” NASA says. “But the reality may be even stranger.”
The myco-architecture (myco is the prefix meaning “fungus”) NASA is excited about isn’t only a new way to make furniture, although it can do that, the agency says. Mushroom House—not its real name—is an integrated habitat with layers. The tough, complex fibers made by fungal mycelia are building blocks of furniture, interior walls, and the innermost layer of the outer shell.
