Archive for the ‘transportation’ category: Page 591
Oct 12, 2015
Many of the world’s first cars ran on electricity
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in category: transportation
Oct 11, 2015
Elon Musk: Tesla autopilot features coming Thursday in software upgrade
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation
Tesla’s latest software update is slated to roll out worldwide this week. Here’s what it will do.
Tesla Motors, the electric automaker, plans to roll out its latest software upgrade—version 7, which includes autopilot features—worldwide to owners of its Model S sedan on Thursday.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk made the announcement via a tweet this weekend. He also answered some of his Twitter followers’ questions about the new software.
Oct 10, 2015
The mysterious artificial intelligence company Elon Musk invested in is developing game-changing smart computers
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in categories: computing, Elon Musk, robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation
“Vicarious, the mysterious company that’s been funded by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, and actor Ashton Kutcher, wants to do something completely radical — build the world’s first human-level artificial intelligence (AI).”
Smarter than Siri and Cortana.
Oct 8, 2015
Panasonic has made the world’s most efficient rooftop solar panel
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, solar power, sustainability, transportation
At the end of last week, solar technology company SolarCity, which was co-founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, made headlines when it announced it had developed the most efficient rooftop solar panel to date, with a module-level efficiency of 22.04 percent. Now, just a few days later, Panasonic has one-upped them by announcing a rooftop panel prototype that’s nearly half a percent more efficient.
“Sorry Elon, I’mma let you finish…” and, well, you know how that pun goes. What’s cool about Panasonic’s record-breaking prototype is that it was mass-produced, and able to convert 22.5 percent of sunlight into electrical energy straight off the production line, which means it’ll be easily commercialised and presumably relatively cheap for consumers.
Right about now you’re probably wondering why this is a big deal, when researchers have already managed to convert the Sun’s rays into electricity with more than 40 percent efficiency, and just last year Panasonic themselves announced they’d made a solar cell with 25.6 percent efficiency.
Oct 7, 2015
Australia: Doctors reattach child’s head to spine after car crash [Video]
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, transportation
Surgeons at Brisbane hospital managed to reattached the head of 16-month-old Jaxon Taylor.
Oct 6, 2015
Daimler self-driving lorry
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
A self-driving lorry takes to Germany’s motorways.
Would you feel safe driving next to one?
Oct 5, 2015
“I feel like I’m driving into the future right now” — Bill Whitaker reports on self-driving cars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Oct 3, 2015
Daimler tests self-driving truck on German highway
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation
The truck has smart systems including radars, cameras and active speed regulators and works without a human driver — although one has to be in the driver’s seat and take the wheel if necessary.
The standard Mercedes-Benz Actros, fitted with the intelligent “Highway Pilot” system, travelled 14 kilometres (about nine miles) on the A8 motorway, with a driver in the cabin but his hands off the wheel.
“Today’s premiere is a further important step towards the market maturity of autonomously driving trucks -– and towards the safe, sustainable road freight transport of the future,” said Wolfgang Bernhard, board member responsible for Daimler Trucks and Buses.
