#Google Project Soli will put gesture controls everywhere Every motion controller currently on the market may have just become obsolete thanks to Google.
#Reducing traffic congestion in India with suspended, driverless pods t an electric car, except you don drive it,
Proponents of PRT believe that such systems can provide the personal convenience of cars with the dedicated infrastructure of mass transit,
it sounds like he telling a riddle. t an electric car, except you don drive it,
Proponents of PRT believe that such systems can provide the personal convenience of cars with the dedicated infrastructure of mass transit,
#Audi R8 e-tron: super-fast electric concept sports car can drive itself Audi has revealed a new,
super slick electronic super car that can drive itself. The R8 e-tron has been designed to showcase technology for Audi future,
including a special lightweight design and systems that allow it to drive like a high-performance car
despite only being powered by batteries. And now the company has added self-driving capabilities that use a range of sensors to drive safely and more efficiently.
The concept car was shown off at CES Asia, where the company revealed that it go from 0 to 100 km h in just 3. 9 seconds,
and can reach a top speed of 250 km h. It does so using a special T-shaped battery
which uses the data to create a comprehensive image of the environment around the car.
The car can then use that information to drive itself. That helps the car use the battery even more efficiently than it already does.
The company says that it can build the car o meet special customer requests But its main job is as a igh-tech mobile laboratory it says trying out technologies that will eventually make it to production vehicles u
#Self-healing technology one step closer after scientists produce aircraft wings which fix themselves Their research,
due to be presented at a Royal Society meeting in London this week, is being billed as an important step in an emerging field
The BMW i8 electric sports car has a carbon fibre passenger compartment to make up for the weight of its heavy battery Professor Richard Catlow of the University of London,
*The BMW i8 electric sports car has a carbon fibre passenger compartment to make up for the weight of its heavy battery.
The material is already attractive to car manufacturers as it is 30 per cent lighter than aluminium and self-healing technology would make it safer too.*
and the technology used in cars to alert drivers when theye close to reversing into something.
#3 Japanese automakers to jointly work on self-driving car technology TOKYO Japan big three automakers will team up with electronics giants
The Nikkei business daily said the government will invite Toyota, Nissan and Honda as well as Panasonic and Hitachi to the meeting
with the German giant supplying western as well as Japanese carmakers, the Nikkei said. The public sector will help in developing infrastructure,
Japanese and US automakers are aiming to commercialise self-driving cars by around 2020, with global behemoths including Daimler and Google in play.
#Toyota Nissan Honda to jointly support hydrogen station infrastructure development Toyota motor Corp Nissan motor co and Honda motor Co have agreed to work together to help accelerate the development of hydrogen station infrastructure for fuel cell vehicles (FCVS.
The three automobile manufacturers hope to both popularize FCVS and ensure that it will be easy to refuel them.
Consequently they have recognized jointly the need for automobile manufacturers to promote the development of hydrogen station infrastructure alongside the government
The three automobile manufacturers will give careful consideration to concrete initiatives such as underwriting a portion of the expenses involved in the operation of hydrogen stations.
Toyota Nissan and Honda are aiming to contribute to bringing about such a society through ensuring the widespread use of FCVS s
But soon, you may be able to use your device to plan your entire day from what bus you should catch in the morning to
It can tell you what time the next bus will arrive but it can also tell you to hustle
in order to catch the right bus. 11 Odd and Intriguing Smart Home Technologies"The idea is that you really have a dialogue with this system.
"If you want a vehicle to fly for you, what does need it to be like? It needs to be safe,
The PTS could also be useful for drivers of electric cars, said Williams, who noted that the system could
#Following Tesla's Lead Toyota Makes Fuel cell Patents Free Toyota is making thousands of its hydrogen fuel cell patents available royalty-free,
the car company announced this week at CES 2015 in Las vegas. The company will make more than 5,
600 fuel cell patentsavailable through 2020 to carmakers who produce and sell fuel cell vehicles, and to parts suppliers and companies interested in building and operating fueling stations,
said Bob Carter, Toyota's senior vice president of automotive operations. The carmaker hopes the move will spur worldwide development and innovation in fuel cell technologies.
It comes on the heels of a similar decision by billionaire entrepreneur Elon musk to make the patents of his electric car company
Tesla motors, freely available. 10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life"The first-generation hydrogen fuel cell vehicles,
launched between 2015 and 2020, will be critical, requiring a concerted effort and unconventional collaboration between automakers, government regulators, academia and energy providers,
"Carter said in a speech at CES. Carter said Toyota has a"long history"of sharing its intellectual property,
citing as an example the firm's licensing of patents for hybrid vehicles. But this is the first time Toyota is making its patents available for free,
a move that"reflects the company's aggressive support for developing a hydrogen-based society,"
"Carter said. Companies that make fuel cell busses and industrial equipment can also receive the patents,
and requests from nontransportation companies will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, he said. The announcement applies only to patents wholly owned by Toyota.
Fuel cell vehicle-related patents will be available royalty-free until the end of 2020, while hydrogen-production and supply patents will remain free indefinitely.
Toyota also encouraged other companies to share their fuel cell patents. Carter said his company provided substantial funding for the development of hydrogen fueling infrastructure in California and the northeastern United states. In May 2014
the carmaker announced a $7. 3 million loan to the Newport Beach, California-based hydrogen fueling company Firstelement Fuel to help maintain nearly 20 fueling stations across the state.
In November 2014, Toyota announced a collaboration with French multinational Air liquide to design and supply a network of 12 hydrogen stations for New york, New jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode island d
#Exoskeleton Helps Spinal cord Injury Patient Walk LAS VEGAS Bionic exoskeletons are helping spinal cord injury and stroke patients walk again.
and Mercedes announced a new luxury vehicle powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Lots of small companies are getting in on the action too,
Automatic lets you harness the computing power of your car for the sake of fuel efficiency.
This little device plugs into the diagnostic port of your vehicle, which is tucked typically between the dashboard and the brake pedal.
Once plugged in, Automatic connects the car's computer system to your smartphone, relaying data about all of your car's subsystems from the gas tank to the engine.
With this data at the ready, the device can tell you when there's something wrong with your car before it becomes a major issue,
a company spokesperson told Live Science. It's like preventative health for your car, she said,
letting you diagnose a problem before it starts eating away at your fuel efficiency or increasing your emissions.
In addition to letting you know when there's something wrong with your car, Automatic also notifies you
when there's something wrong with your driving. If you tend to accelerate too quickly, Automatic will inform you that this bad habit wastes gas.
which could run LED LIGHTS and even drive a miniature car! Sahin informed that his system could be hundreds times cheaper to build per unit area than solar tapping,
In the process, the electrodes are suspensions of small particles carried by a liquid and pumped through different compartments of the battery.
which are a mainstay in the automotive industry and developed a highly functional bellow to handle the extreme load conditions
and a miniature toy"car"that seemingly moves with miraculous efficiency. You may have to see these inventions in action to get the full grasp of just how innovative they are.
#Why hydrogen fuel cell cars are taking off The news hasn't been great for electric vehicle and hybrid sales lately.
suddenly wee seeing a whole lot of action from hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars. This is a zero emission technology that been under the radar,
but is exploding in 2015, with available-now or soon-arriving cars from Toyota, Honda,
Mercedes-benz and Hyundai. Think of a fuel-cell car as an exhaust-free electric car with a little chemical factory producing the electrons in place of a battery.
The other advantage over battery cars is that refueling is just like getting gas, and takes only about five minutes.
market car was possible. Wee there now. Hyundai was the first out of the gate with the Tucson fuel-cell car last spring.
Initially it available only in southern California because that where the stations are. The big challenge for hydrogen is the infrastructurehe stations cost $1 million or more
And Toyota is subsidizing a dozen stations in the Northeast. Connecticut recently announced that it would offer $450, 000 in subsidies for two hydrogen stations in that state,
Toyota Mirai hits dealerships in California this fall, with the East Coast also in the plans later.
Toyota just announced some stellar numbers for the car a range of 312 miles on a hydrogen fill
Toyota is preparing a big push on fuel-cell cars. ust as the Prius introduced hybrid-electric vehicles to millions of customers nearly 20 years ago,
said Jim Lenz, CEO of Toyota North america. Toyota is also working with BMW, previously mostly quiet on fuel cells though it showed an early interest in hydrogen with 7-Series cars that burned the stuff.
BMW said this week it will test a Toyota-enhanced fuel-cell car on public roads in July.
BMW showed a 5-Series ran Turismowith a fuel cell (and a range of 310 miles) at a race track in France
and plans a echnically mature, customer-ready vehicle sometime after 2020. Germany has one of the better hydrogen networks globally, with 18 stations and plans for 50.
Daimler and partners recently opened a station on the autobahn, a first for Germany. Mercedes, meanwhile, is being fairly quiet about its plans,
but one executive said the automaker would field what could turn out to be an SUV-or crossover-based car in 2017.
With the recent F-Cell and other experimental models through a long history, Daimler has been a leader in the field.
Three Japanese automakers, Toyota, Honda and Nissan (until recently a dark horse player in the field) said July 1 that they will band together to pay as much as one-third of the operating costs of Japan hydrogen network,
Honda will be a big player in fuel cells, and showed off the FCV Concept car at the Detroit Auto Show back in January.
It plans to have the production version of that car on American roads next year.
So there a lot of news, and an invigorated sector that is finally going from the planning stages to the showroom floor
or as a hyper-efficient seat warmer in a car. Although only flat mesh connected into a tube has been made so far,
so that the suspension of gold nanoparticles in the solution surrounding the electrode remains stable while maintaining an appropriate concentration of copper two ions and supporting electrolyte.
mobile devices and electric cars. Lithium-sulfur batteries have recently become one of the hottest topics in the field of energy storage devices due to their high energy density
It also may be possible to create an active camouflage on the exterior of vehicles that would change color to better match the surrounding environment.
Researchers from Singapore and Qubec Team up to Develop Next-Generation Materials to Power Electronic devices and Electric vehicles February 28th,
a development that could mean faster charging time and longer battery life in electric vehicles and portable electronics.
Imagine charging your cell phone in just a few seconds or fueling up an electric car in but a few minutes,
"Hamedi says the aerogel batteries could be used in electric car bodies, as well as in clothing, providing the garment has a lining.
are an important component used by the electronics, communications and automobile industries, as well as in radars and other applications.
Additionally, the emergence of green technology markets-such as hybrid and electric vehicles, direct drive wind turbine power systems and energy storage systems-have created an increased demand for permanent magnets.
"Other co-authors are Hamish Brown, Adrian D'Alfonso, Pratik Koirala, Colin Ophus, Yuyuan Lin, Yuya Suzuki, Hiromi Inada, Yimei Zhu, Les Allen,
Yu explains. o this may generate useful applications such as a cooling surface for vehicles, buildings, instruments,
provides a highly efficient alternative to a standard internal combustion engine. High power density, clean emissions (water), low temperature operation, rapid start-up and shutdown,
in order to represent a realistic alternative to internal combustion engines (1, 2). Fuel cells generate electricity by combining hydrogen gas with oxygen to produce water (figure 1). Although that sounds perfectly clean and green,
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or combusted in fuel cells-in cars for example-to drive engines. Solar fuel cell To connect an existing silicon solar cell to a battery that splits the water may well be an efficient solution now
"This could help advance efforts to develop wireless power transfer technologies for use with electric vehicles, in buildings,
and S. Suzuki,"Development of metallic contaminant detection system using RF High-Tc SQUIDS for food inspection,"IEEE Trans.
devices made from it could surpass traditional electrolytic capacitors for applications in electromagnetic propulsion, electric vehicles and defibrillators.
though it doesn't match the lithium ion battery formats commonly used in electronic devices and vehicles.""This is the first time I've seen a capacitor beat a battery on energy density,
like RFID tags that currently transmit identifying info on everything from cattle to car parts,
compact micro-actuators for aerospace, automobile, biomedical, space and robotics applications; and ultra-low thermal signature actuators for sonars and defense applications.
the researchers pass a suspension of B cells and target antigen through tiny, parallel channels etched on a chip.
A positive-pressure system moves the suspension through these channels, which gradually narrow, applying a gentle pressure to the B cells.
"Hamedi says the aerogel batteries could be used in electric car bodies, as well as in clothing, providing the garment has a lining.
and they contain laser technology (developed by the University of Hertfordshire) to detect particulates from cars and lorries.
carried in cars and on buses, and static devices were attached to lampposts and stationed at roadsides and at critical pollutant sites.
whether pollution along bus routes is improved by upgrading the exhaust processing on a bus fleet; whether people living at the top of high-rise buildings experience more or less pollution than people at street level;
or a car that never needs a new coat of paint. A study done at The University of Akron may be able to make this a reality in the near future.
High coating thicknesses are crucial for certain applications especially in the auto industry, where components are exposed to enormous loads over long periods of time,
The automotive and motorcycle manufacturer BMW is working intensively on the industrial-scale implementation of ta-C engine components in its various vehicle models with the aim of reducing their fuel consumption.
And as a motorcycle aficionado himself he also sees another positive effect stemming from this development:
This is a significantly challenging step-it assumes that all the cars on the road become electric, and that homes and industry convert to fully electrified heating and cooling systems.
simple process for making platinum"nano-raspberries"microscopic clusters of nanoscale particles of the precious metal("Stability and phase transfer of catalytically active platinum nanoparticle suspensions").
This is a very poor suspension quality for catalytic purposes. Because the nanoparticles clumped up slowly and not too much in methanol,
"Other co-authors are Hamish Brown, Adrian D'Alfonso, Pratik Koirala, Colin Ophus, Yuyuan Lin, Yuya Suzuki, Hiromi Inada, Yimei Zhu, Les Allen,
#Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
including electric cars, where they can be used alongside batteries to enhance a vehicle performance. By using a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
and tiny scales sensitive enough to detect changes in mass of a millionth of a gram,
when placed alongside a battery in an electric car, a supercapacitor is useful when a short burst of power is required,
such as when overtaking another car, with the battery providing the steady power for highway driving. upercapacitors perform a similar function to batteries
satellite or tractor, has become a precise, noninvasive and more affordable tool to check how crops are doing.
#Nanogenerator harvests power from rolling tires A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and a collaborator from China have developed a nanogenerator that harvests energy from a car's rolling tire friction.
the nanogenerator ultimately could provide automobile manufacturers a new way to squeeze greater efficiency out of their vehicles.
which is the first of its kind, in a paper published May 6, 2015, in the journal Nano Energy("Single-electrode triboelectric nanogenerator for scavenging friction energy from rolling tires").
Xudong Wang has developed a new way to harvest energy from rolling tires. The nanogenerator relies on the triboelectric effect to harness energy from the changing electric potential between the pavement and a vehicle's wheels.
The triboelectric effect is the electric charge that results from the contact or rubbing together of two dissimilar objects.
"The friction between the tire and the ground consumes about 10 percent of a vehicle's fuel,
"The nanogenerator relies on an electrode integrated into a segment of the tire. When this part of the tire surface comes into contact with the ground,
the friction between those two surfaces ultimately produces an electrical charge-a type of contact electrification known as the triboelectric effect.
During initial trials, Wang and his colleagues used a toy car with LED LIGHTS to demonstrate the concept.
They attached an electrode to the wheels of the car, and as it rolled across the ground,
"The researchers also determined that the amount of energy harnessed is directly related to the weight of a car,
Therefore the amount of energy saved can vary depending on the vehicle -but Wang estimates about a 10-percent increase in the average vehicle's gas mileage given 50-percent friction energy conversion efficiency."
"There's big potential with this type of energy, "Wang says.""I think the impact could be huge."
and, like fats and oils, can be converted through hydrogenation into diesel fuel for cars or kerosene for planes.
For vehicle diesel, that takes about one year, and for kerosene about three years, Axel Kraft adds s
which is familiar from passing cars. Their sound has a higher pitch when they are approaching than
Fibers are everywhere from your underwear, pajamas, toothbrushes, tires, shoes, car seats, air filtration systems and even your clothes.
The ISEM study has been supported financially by the Automotive Australia 2020 CRC as part of its research into electric vehicles.
and plays crucial role for design of next generation electric vehicles A key to unlocking the electric vehicle capability is a lightweight and powerful battery pack. ur simple fabrication method of eco-friendly materials
Our next step is to use this material to fabricate flexible wearable supercapacitors with high power density and energy density as well as large scale supercapacitors for electric vehicles. u
which said a Tulsa woman died on Saturday after her automobile hydroplaned on a highway.
many people had to abandon their vehicles and escape on foot. And it's not even over yet:
Having an emergency bug out bag in your vehicle was a key preparedness strategy for those who had to abandon their vehicles
Many people had to abandon their vehicles in areas unfamiliar to them. It's astonishingly easy to lose your sense of direction inside a thunderstorm.
and we know that governments will sooner or later default on every fiat currency they create. We also know that with 109 million Americans now on government food assistance
The Belgian finance minister, Johan Van Overtveldt, noted that the EU's credibility would take a substantial hit
#Jaguar land rover Mind Sense research monitors brainwaves through the hands via sensors in the steering wheel Jaguar land rover has revealed the ixth Senseproject,
With its road safety research, The british firm is joining a number of other car makers that have been researching the measurement of brainwaves to monitor driver concentration in the car.
if a car could effectively read the brainwaves that indicate a driver is beginning to daydream,
then the steering wheel or pedals could vibrate to raise the driver awareness and re-engage them with driving,
added Dr Epple. f Mind Sense does not detect a surge in brain activity following the car displaying a warning icon or sound,
something that would be impractical in a vehicle. Jaguar land rover is investigating a method already used by NASA to develop a pilot concentration skills
and also by the US bobsleigh team to enhance concentration and focus. This detects brainwaves through the hands via sensors embedded in the steering wheel.
Because the sensing is taking place further away from the driver head software is used to amplify the signal
and filter out the pure brainwave from any background oisejaguar Land rover is currently conducting user trials to collect more information on the different brainwaves identified through the steering wheel sensors
On top of brainwave monitoring, Jaguar land rover is also assessing how a vehicle could monitor the well-being of the driver using a medical-grade sensor embedded in the seat of a JAGUAR XJ.
has been adapted for in-car use and detects vibrations from the driver heart beat and breathing. s we develop more autonomous driving technologies,
added Dr Epple. o do this safely the car will need to know if the driver is alert
So our research team is looking at the potential for a range of driver monitoring technologies to give the car enough information to support this decision.
If the car detects severe health issues, or simply how alert the driver is, then the car could take steps to ensure the driver is focussed enough on the driving task to take over. onitoring the physical health of the driver could
not only detect the onset of sudden and serious illness that may incapacitate the driver, but also allow the car to monitor driver stress levels.
This would then allow the car to help reduce stress, for example by changing mood lighting, audio settings and climate control.
JLR also has a redictive Infotainment Screenprototype that uses cameras embedded in the car to track the driver hand movements
and this enables the system to predict which button the driver intends to press. This allows successful button selection to take place in mid-air,
Haptics could also be used to communicate with the driver through the accelerator pedal to increase the speed of response
To create these sensations in the accelerator pedal, an actuator sits at the top of the pedal arm
Alternatively, if you were crawling along in traffic a timely warning through the accelerator could prevent you bumping into the car in front a
#Mind-controlled BMW i3 driven in tron-like car insurance campaign As part of a British car insurance marketing campaign,
Using a modified BMW i3 electric car, the team of Moneysupermarket has given lucky members of the public the opportunity to be trained brain
and drive the car through an electroencephalography (EEG) headset manufactured by Emotiv. The BMW was fitted with a mechanical rig capable of pressing the pedals and turning the steering wheel on command
while the drivers received an EEG neuro headset to monitor their brain activity while being trained to remotely drive the car.
The driverstraining involved thinking left, right, and about going forward and stopping. However, instead of simply thinking about the actions and movements, the training involves associating a specific mental image with each command.
Those selected to take the driver seat are judged on the track by a series of variables.
This includes statistics fed back by a telematics box in the car reporting on how safely
For those who didn have the chance to drive the mind-controlled BMW on 16 july,
the researchers first located the seat of long-term musical memory in the brain with the help of functional ultra-high-field magnetic resonance imaging.
They found that the brain area that had been identified as the seat of long-term musical memory does in fact lose fewer neurons than the rest of the brain.
Program director for the US NAVY Captain Jeff Dodge likened the upgrade from the MQ-8b based on a smaller airframe to the model aircraft to a brain transplant. e are taking the computer
That voltage was boosted then to a useful level by a DC-DC converter (arxiv. org/abs/1505.06815.
or drive in a car while doing the Wi-fi only plan because the signals just don't carry far enough to cover you over long distances.
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