LIDAR units once cost $75,000. Now a $250 LIDAR, with no moving parts, is about to enter the market.
Giving a car “eyes” once cost a fortune. Now it’s affordable, a good sign for autonomous vehicles.
A California company with visions of building a futuristic transportation system to one day zip people and packages at nearly the speed of sound announced Tuesday it is building a test facility in southern Nevada.
Hyperloop Technologies Inc. and the Nevada governor’s office said the 50-acre facility at a fledgling North Las Vegas business park will test a linear electric motor at speeds of about 335 mph—about half the speed envisioned in a full-scale system.
“This decision represents another major milestone in our journey to bring Hyperloop to commercial reality,” Rob Lloyd, CEO of the Los Angeles-based company, said in a statement.
The future of delivery, where drones bring your package in 30 minutes or less. http://voc.tv/1P6L9zh
We hear about virtual reality all the time, but what if your driving in *real life* actually controlled a virtual car? http://voc.tv/1P6L9zh
Just How Much Did ‘Back to the Future’ Get Right about October 2015? 2:19.
In “Back to the Future Part II,” Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel from 1985 to October 21, 2015, to find a world filled with flying cars, hoverboards and self-drying jackets.
Those predictions didn’t exactly pan out, although people are working on each of those concepts. (Screenwriter Bob Gale did get a lot of things — from drones to fingerprint scanners — right, as he told TODAY earlier this year.)
The world’s fastest charging electric bus is now operating in the eastern Chinese port city of Ningbo.
According to local transportation authorities, the public bus — which was manufactured in Ningbo and runs along a 24-stop, 11 kilometre route — takes as little as 10 seconds to charge up and be ready for the next leg of its journey.
Amazon says drones can deliver packages weighing up to 5 pounds within 30 minutes.
“In time, there will be a whole family of Amazon drones,” says narrator Jeremy Clarkson, the former BBC “Top Gear” cohost who is working on a similar show for Amazon. “Different designs for different environments.”
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