Archive for the ‘transportation’ category: Page 455
Jan 12, 2017
The Department of Transportation wants to make cars talk
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: transportation
Jan 10, 2017
Smart Highway Market Explores New Growth Opportunities By 2026
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: electronics, transportation
For my many self driving fans. Here is an idea that they could look into as part of this infrastructure is to have the sensors in the pavement be able to sense a car broken down on the side of the road and notify nearby tow trucking company hired by the city or county as well as the same sensors able to pick up on vehicle impacts on the road to contact police/ hwy. patrol and emergency responders as cameras cannot be everywhere to monitor.
Press release — Persistence Market Research Pvt. Ltd — Smart Highway Market Explores New Growth Opportunities By 2026 — published on openPR.com.
Jan 10, 2017
Invisible Combat Vehicles May Now Be Possible; Russian Scientists Claim
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: innovation, transportation
Interesting.
20 Armata tanks boasted with a science breakthrough idea that reduced visibility with high-tech armor protection have successfully been tested in Russia.
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Jan 9, 2017
Ford aims for self-driving car with no gas pedal, no steering wheel in 5 years, CEO says
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Ford Motor CEO Mark Fields, Monday on CNBC, explained the automaker’s ambitious plan to create the autonomous vehicle of the future.
Jan 9, 2017
Energy all around us could power under-skin implants and sensors in aircrafts – Dr Gonzalo Murillo
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: energy, transportation
There is unlimited kinetic energy all around us and harnessing it could change the way we interact with the world forever, according to Dr Gonzalo Murillo from the National Microelectronics Center of Spain, whose research into piezoelectric materials has earned him an award for the most novel innovator under 35 in Europe 2016 from the MIT Technology Review, US.
Jan 9, 2017
Self-Driving Cars Will Fail
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: law, robotics/AI, transportation
The article does bring up many of the same points that many have raised with self driving cars; and folks still don’t seem to understand that we have thousands if not millions of laws in the US alone that must be reviewed and possibly changed to address this technology on the roads. When you look at every state, each county, and each town or city’s laws around driving on their roads; it could be a long and painful period for companies and consumers before the legal side of things catch up.
Self-driving car technology is not yet ready for prime time. Driver assist is.
The Legal challenges and potential liability are immense.
Jan 9, 2017
Neodriven is a rearview mirror replacement that can make your car semi-autonomous
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, transportation
In late 2015, iPhone and PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz teased a project that sounded like a dream: his new company would produce a $1,000 consumer product that could grant your car semi-autonomous capabilities. Eleven months and one terse letter from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration later, Hotz killed the project.
About a month after that, Hotz resurrected it as a two open-source efforts, splitting the hardware and software of the self-driving tech he had created with the rest of his company, Comma.ai. Hotz always talked like he wanted to start a DIY car revolution to take on the car industry (and Elon Musk especially). Open sourcing the plans only increased the chances of it happening.
Jan 5, 2017
Jeff Bezos tweets his vote of support for constructing a ‘superhighway in space’
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: space, transportation
What should Donald Trump have NASA do? Today Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos voiced his support for the idea that the space agency should help build a “highway in the sky” analogous to the interstate highway system that President Dwight Eisenhower ramped up in the 1950s.
The backing came in the form of an eight-word tweet, accompanied by a link to an article by Howard Bloom appearing in Salon (and as a guest blog posting on Scientific American’s website as well).