Mahaffey was quick to point out that this hack required"initial physical access to the car."
While the researcher commends Tesla for how well it separated its massive infotainment system from the rest of the car's controls at a top level,
Mahaffey and his partner in crime (for good) were able to perform any action possible from the car's touchscreen or Tesla's accompanying smartphone app.
On one occasion, the security guru successfully turned the car off while it was driving."
"At low speeds, the car applies the parking brake and it immediately comes to a stop,
"At speeds above about 5 miles per hour, the Model S gracefully shuts off its engineust like shifting a gasoline car into neutralhile still providing the driver full control over steering
and brakes so they can safely bring the car to a stop.""Good to know!
especially when cars are only to become more connected? For starters, Mahaffey tells auto makers to start putting their cars'critical systems into closed networks that are isolated from the infotainment systems or information clusters.
This is the third reported hack on connected cars in the last two weeks alone. First, security experts assumed direct, remote control of a new Jeep cherokee,
Short after, another white hat hacker revealed a flaw in Onstar's connected system that left any General motors car equipped with the service wide open to remote door unlocks and ignition starts.
In short, for who knows how long, any Onstar-equipped GM car could be jacked hands Free of course,
#Graphene's thermoelectric properties to help cars recover lost thermal energy Charging bateries or running air conditioning could be assisted by energy from fuel normally wasted as heat emissions One of the less well-known properties of graphene could enable the carbonaceous wonder-material to help combustion engine vehicles to make better use of the energy from their fuel by converting waste heat into electricity
Autonomous intersection management Once computers are in full control of our cars, do need we even traffic lights at intersections?
speeding up or slowing down to ensure theye in the right place at the right time and not smashing into another car.
people will also get used to the idea of cars going through the intersections. That said, he stressed that driving is now
and our system will allow the cars to make a much more constant speed, he says,
even with all the cars going through without stopping, it going to be a lot safer than it is today. re we there yet?
Computers aren driving our cars yet and won be for some time, but there are some connected car projects that already claim to be easing the flow of traffic.
As cars become more connected whether it through satnav or simply the smartphones in our pockets better data in means we get better data out on the road.
not only GPS from cars and timings from traffic lights, but also air quality sensor data and images from cameras. n its own, each is of low value,
or send a text message to a car, or alert satnavs in the car to quietly change the routing
so theye now going somewhere else. It may seem like a small change, but consider the shift that happened in digital signs.
One way self-driving vehicles may be introduced is latooning with a lead car in control of a train or group of followers, handy for giving lorry drivers a break.
There are reasons to give some cars priority, and that being trialled by Newcastle. There, traffic lights are alkingto motorists,
sending messages to a device in car about obstacles or delays ahead, as well as helping them adjust their speeds to hit lights
roads aren used only by cars. What about the bicycles, scooters and pedestrians hoping to cross the street?
but by sending messages to drivers in cars, giving them useful information to react to
#Tesla announces low-cost solar batteries The electric car company Tesla has announced its entry into the energy market, unveiling a suite of low-cost solar batteries for homes, businesses and utilities,
The batteries will initially be manufactured at the electric car company factory in California, but will move production to its planned igafactoryin Nevada
The engineered cells contain an antibody-like protein known as a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) which is designed to bind to a protein called CD19 found on the surface of B cells including the cancerous B cells that characterize several types of leukemia.
A signaling domain built into the CAR promotes rapid multiplication of the hunter cells building an army of tumor-killing cells that tests reveal can grow to more than 10000 new cells for each single engineered cell patients receive.
Compartments within a cell are much like different parts of a car explains Vasanth Ramamurthy Phd first author of the study.
in order to power the car's engine proteins need to be in a specific compartment to properly exercise their functions.
It will help us make parts that are stronger lighter and function better for more energy-efficient transportation and energy production applications such as cars and wind turbines.
Seniors living in highly automobile dependent suburbs who lose their licenses can suffer a decreased quality of life as a result.
Figuratively speaking these are genes that are like motor racing cars with a running engine waiting at the start of a race.
The new technology is designed for conventional lithium-ion batteries now used in billions of cellphones laptops and other electronic devices as well as a growing number of cars and airplanes.
Some electric cars today are equipped with thousands of lithium-ion battery cells. If one battery explodes the whole pack can potentially explode.
With our nanotechnology electric cars would be able to increase their range dramatically with just five minutes of charging
which is on par with the time needed to pump petrol for current cars added Prof Chen.
and car factories where they help engineers to determine the characteristics of steel materials analyze their chemical composition
#Miniature camera may lead to fewer accidents Measuring only a few cubic millimeters a new type of camera module might soon be integrated into future driver assistance systems to help car drivers facing
Krystyn Van Vliet, Lead Investigator, SMART Biosystems and Micromechanics (Biosym) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG. The research entitled'Multivariate biophysical markers predictive of mesenchymal stromal cell multipotency'will be published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week.
and why stem-cell treatments now in clinical trials are not as effective as they could be says Krystyn Van Vliet an MIT associate professor of materials science and engineering
but many of the cells that you're putting in are not Van Vliet says.
but you also can't use fewer than these three Van Vliet says. We now have a triplet of characteristics that identifies populations of cells that are going to be multipotent
what is known already about stem cells Van Vliet says. Compared with cells that have committed already to their final fate immature cells have genetic material that moves around inside the nucleus producing more fluctuations of the nuclear cell membrane.
Creating more pure populations of such cells should lead to more effective stem-cell treatments for tissue injuries Van Vliet says.
Van Vliet and Poon also hope to begin a clinical trial of the osteogenic cells isolated in this study
"One can now think of using these films in automobile glass as an invisible deicer, and even in skyscrapers,"Tour said."
"Tittel said smaller QEPAS device will be added this year to the mobile monitoring van currently carrying out a Rice university of Houston survey of pollutants in the city.
Every time the field flips, the polarity of the bars reverses, drawing the magnetized droplets in a new, predetermined direction, like slot cars on a track.
#Deriving Power Directly from Evaporation Eva, the first evaporation-powered car, rolls along, thanks to a moisture mill a turbine engine driven by water evaporating from wet paper strips lining its walls.
and a rotary engine that drives a miniature car. When evaporation energy is scaled up the researchers predict,
The researchers next built a small toy car, powering it with the Moisture Mill and were successful in getting the car to roll on its own,
powered only by evaporation. In the future, Sahin said, it may be possible to design engines that use the mechanical energy stored in spores to propel a full-sized vehicle.
or CAR, in blood-forming stem cells. Blood-forming stem cells are capable of turning into any type of blood cell,
and mutates too rapidly for T cells to fight against the virus. The researchers inserted a gene for a CAR into blood-forming stem cells in the lab. The CAR,
The CAR-modified blood stem cells were transplanted then into HIV-infected mice that had been engineered genetically with human immune systems.
The researchers found that the CAR-carrying blood stem cells successfully turned into functional T cells that could kill HIV-infected cells in the mice.
The findings strongly suggest that stem cell-based gene therapy with a CAR may be a feasible and effective treatment for chronic HIV infection in humans.
immunology and molecular genetics in the UCLA David Geffen School of medicine and a co-author of the study. ith the CAR approach,
Kitchen said the CAR approach is more flexible and potentially more effective because it could theoretically be employed in anyone.
and they know what car he drives, they can see where the car has been in recent days and months.
Investigators can map crime history both by location and time to reveal trends. And if a radiation alarm goes off,
Car thefts are down 17%.%Robberies are down 16%.%The Foothill area of Los angeles actually went an entire day without serious crime last year,
They are such powerful connectors of people that they are literally replacing their need and desire for cars.
As Steve Pendleton pointed out in a New Statesman piece about Britain reaching peak cars: But young people aren't simply swapping cars for buses or bikes;
they are choosing to own and use other technology instead, such as smartphones and tablet computers. It's not merely that the two trade off economically;
while travelling by bus, train or as a passenger in a car, only 10 per cent of them said they did so
while driving a car. Now think about where mass transit works best--where young people, retirees and even families are able to simply abolish their use of cars.
Especially in the U s. nowhere else but cities is this even possible. As young people turn away from cars--a phenomenon so powerful that it has had the marketing departments of car companies running scared for years--they are left with no other option than mass transit,
and that means increased density, urbanism, walkability and everything else required to bring our way of life in line with planetary boundaries.
Millennials aren't just fleeing the automobile; they're also explicitly fleeing Mcmansions and the suburbs.
literally represents a wealth transfer from the old economy--cars, oil, long commutes--to a new one built on a desire to capitalize on virtual connectivity by recapitulating it in the real world.
who are making decisions every day to buy an ipad instead of a new car, or to move closer to work
have a two-car garage and enslave yourself to lawn care? Who's aspiring to that t
especially big items like automobiles that are used only roughly 8 percent of the time. While it took Zipcar about six years to build up to 1, 000 cars in its network,
it the U k.-based Whipcar about six months to build up to the same number, she said.
That, in turn, causes people to think at least twice before a big-ticket purchase like a car that sits idle for 92 percent of the time.
they aren't just for big houses and cars anymore. Increasingly, Sarah Goodyear reports for The Atlantic cities, suburbs throughout the United states are investing in bicycle infrastructure.
and could be embedded in surfaces ranging from car dashboards to household floors to kitchen countertops.
and the inside surfaces of some new car models. Toyota announced in December that the 2013 Toyota Avalon Limited will be the first car to offer wireless charging with a Qi-powered console included under the dashboard.
Bas Fransen, chief marketing officer and head of business development for Convenientpower, a wireless power technology company,
car ownership costs rising (high gas prices, insurance, etc.;states making it difficult to get a driver's license;
and technology lessening the need for a car. So is this a trend we can expect to continue?
but in the future you may see it on your TV or in your car. I called Bayer Monday at his office in Green Island, NY.
Chief scientist and cofounder Gavin Mcintyre just won a half a million dollar proposal to adopt this same platform for automobile interior trim parts and cushions.
Towards that goal, we've driven our Street view cars throughout the Tohoku region again over the past months.
and are greater than those of all cars, trucks, planes, ships, and trains worldwide.""The program is in testing right now,
Some say that it new Wi-fi enabled busses that is luring people to leave cars behind
Although several options to store hydrogen as a fuel for cars have been investigated, a practical and affordable way to store
and distribute hydrogen is still the biggest hurdle to the wide deployment of green, CO2 EMISSION-free cars.
because Baidu Maps will be able to integrate Uber This is similar to Google maps Uber integration after Google Ventures invested in the car-calling app.
With Airbnb flourishing, the whole market is on the verge of being opened up from sharing what in your closet (Threadflip, Rent the Runway) to your car (Flightcar, Lyft.
and that was one of the key components in a reported investment deal that Baidu is making in car service Uber.
like type of car or estimated time of arrival) before they get in the car. The new fee will automatically be tacked on to that trip price up front
while tracking everything from road conditions to building health to cars to industrial equipment. The Internet of things is a term that being bandied about with increasing frequency these days.
And at CES last week Nvidia spent most of its keynote discussing how it uses deep learning to classify objects that a camera on a car may see in order to further its research in autonomous driving o
The next version of Applink its system for connecting smartphone apps to its SYNC infotainment system will allow third-party navigation apps to project their maps from the phone onto the built-in screens in its cars.
Earlier this month the Genivi Alliance also announced that it would offer open source middleware to support Android Auto integration into car infotainment products r
With Ubercargo, a van arrives wherever you want it to be in minutes. You can load your items in the back of the van yourself
or request the driver assistance if you need an extra hand. Deliveries can easily be tracked in real-time through the app,
The busy city-state is already a thriving market for van rental services. Two ber for logisticsstartups already exist there,
so don be surprised to see its van service rapidly expanding into Southeast asia and China, and potentially other markets, soon.
#Automatic Launches Its SDK, Turning The Car Into An App Platform Automatic, a startup whose sensor-and-software combo has been described as itbit for your car,
is today rolling out a software development kit and new hardware that turn your car into a platform for apps.
which has been updated to accommodate streaming real-time data from a car computer and sensors to apps running on your phone.
The apps draw relevant data from a car computer via the OBD port letting you do things like feed the exact mileage from a particular drive into Concur to expense a work trip
There are also apps for those looking to get peak performance from their cars, offering up stats on engine output
#Rentecarlo Launches U k. Peer-to-peer Car rental Marketplace Rentecarlo, the U k. startup and graduate of accelerator Ignite100, is officially launching today with a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace that lets anybody rent out their own car.
is that car owners can make money on their car inactivity while providing car renters with a more convenient option. here is a growing tendency in our society,
which is need the for on-demand services that allow for access rather than ownership, says Rentecarlo cofounder
and CEO Jacob Aleksander. e want to be at the intersection of car sharing, car ownership and car rental,
by giving access to a wide selection of cars rather than ownership and thereby making better use of cars.
At the same time, sharing your car can take 10 cars off the streets, which counteracts the increasingly crowded roads, traffic and pollution.
Anybody can apply to list their car for rental, although Rentecarlo vets all car renters listed on its platform.
The car owner then determines the rental price describes the car and uploads photos of the vehicle.
All bookings are made through the site, with the startup handling the required insurance and offering 24/7 road assistance cover in the event of a breakdown. ur insurance setup allows car owners to list their cars in less than a minute
and renters to instantly sign up, provide their information on our website and rent a car as soon as the car owner approves the request,
explains Aleksander. urthermore, we also allow citizens from all EU and Commonwealth countries to use the service for hiring cars when on vacation in the U k. or similar.
Of course car pooling in its many forms from taxi-style services like Uber to ridesharing are a plenty.
Rentecarlo cites easycar Club in the U k, . and Drivy and Gomore in Europe, as competitors with the closest business model.
There are also pay-as-you-go car clubs like Zipcar. And we shouldn forget traditional car hire companies, which Rentecarlo and similar startups in the U s,
. such as Getaround and Relayrides, are surely going up against. Not so fast, according to Ignite100 Paul Smith, citing a supply side problem in the car rental industry that sees 15 per cent of car rental requests go unfulfilled because of problems with supply
or out-of-hours access. hat means there a real opportunity for Rentecarlo to tap into an established market without cannibalising existing players.
and offer their personal cars for hire, he says. To that end, Aleksander says weekly traffic
The startup launches with more than 1, 000 signups and almost 300 cars ready to be hired, the majority
For example, how many of Lamborghini 11 million Facebook fans could actually afford that car? While Facebook could make an educated guess,
#Google Straps Aclima Sensors To Street view Cars To Map Air pollution If a city knows what intersections are full of smog,
-and-a-half to attach air-quality sensors to its Street view cars. e designed our cities without data,
three Street view cars collected 150 million air quality data points over a month of driving around Denver, Colo.
Aclima-equipped Street view cars will crisscross the Bay Area and other cities this year as part of the next big data collection.
It could allow Google maps to route cars or pedestrians away from high-pollution areas to avoid exacerbating condensed pollution or breathing it in.
The marketing funnel can be long especially for big purchases such as automobiles where people may do research for nine months before taking a test drive.
The Mexican telecommunications company Car-sa recently switched on the first of several links it plans to use to link up cellular towers
You can find them in cars airplanes robots and medical implants. But their use has been limited in aircraft
and Plug ships into electricity grid so they dont idle in port reducing emissions equivalent to 12000 cars per ship.
But this raises issues of safety should a hydrogen-fueled car be involved in a collision.
Information from the infrared camera is processed by a computer that tries to identify relevant objects on the road such as cars, pedestrians or road signs.
#Radical New DNA Sequencer Finally Gets into Researchers Hands One day in 1989 biophysicist David Deamer pulled his car off California's Interstate 5 to hurriedly scribble down an idea.
but also heavy so they can t be used as structural materials where weight is critical##for example in the bodies of cars.
The company rounded up research subjects in the market for a car and then tracked the journey they took from researching to finally buying.
theye most likely ready to buy a car. hat a big deal, says the company senior executive for marketing,
#Longer-Lasting Battery Is Being tested for Wearable devices A type of battery that could eventually store twice as much energy as a conventional one could be about to move beyond niche applications to wearable devices phones and even electric cars.
This could clear the way for slimmer longer-lasting smart watches as well as electric cars with a range similar to gas-powered ones.
In a demonstration at IBM Almaden research center, MIT Technology Review saw one recognize cars, people,
To recognize cars in video, for example, a programmer would work out the necessary settings on a simulated version of the chip,
for embedded chipshe type found in car dashboards and coffee makersy the end of the year (see enser, Faster Memory Challenges Both DRAM and Flash.
if tetrahedrite can be used to harness heat from car exhaust. Scullin says that other thermoelectric materials have achieved typically about 2. 5 percent efficiency in cars,
but tetrahedrite could reach 5 to 10 percent efficiency. hese aren incremental improvements, he says. heye really huge improvements that make really significant impact. l
providing a simple way to control access to your home, car, or office and perhaps dissuading would-be thieves.
which is building a huge igafactorythat he says will reduce the cost of batteries for electric cars.
The city of Brescia, in northern Italy, was facing a dramatic increase in the number of automobile accidents involving young drunk drivers.
and are important for the generators found in wind turbines and many electric car motors. While Infinium approach can be used to produce other metals,
for one thing, transform car-making. Parts made of these metals weigh far less than the steel parts ordinarily used in cars,
while being just as strong. The weight savings could reduce fuel consumption by 10 percent, according to an auto industry consortium.
the computer controlled the gas and brakes to pull to within 10 meters (roughly three car lengths) of the truck ahead.
Most automobile companies are working on full vehicle automation, but they need to overcome significant challenges before they can deploy those technologies (see riverless Cars Are Further Away Than You Think.
The technology demonstrated in Nevada in contrast, could be deployed today, since the system is automated only partially (the driver behind still steers, with the aid of a camera that shows the view ahead of the truck in front).
a feature in some cars that automatically keeps vehicles on the highway a safe distance from the ones around them.
The U s. Department of transportation has indicated that it plans to mandate such communications systems in new vehicles in the hopes of improving road safety (see he Internet of Cars Is Approaching a Crossroads.
including the carmaker Volvo. Another effort, called Energy ITS, which is backed by the Japanese government
it much harder for drivers of other cars to change lanes. would not advocate running very long sequences of these trucks close together,
Toyota, a Witricity investor, plans to use its technology in forthcoming electric and hybrid cars, and TDK recently licensed Witricity for use in electric car batteries.
and cars to the Internet, unleashing new streams of data about our everyday lives, one mobile ad company scents a new opportunity.
and cars with integrated data connections head to market. Those new data streams could form the basis for many new services and products,
It will launch a $149 device in June that plugs into a car diagnostic port
Sprague says that getting access to data from a car engine and safety systems could unlock some unprecedented approaches to ad targeting.
when a car airbags are deployed, or whether crash sensors on the bumpers have been triggered, potentially allowing ads pegged to incidents on the road. t could be had you just a little fender bender,
Lockhorn says of Kiip experiments in the car. The ad industry in general is interested in finding ways to use online-style ad tactics in the real world.
The way I drive my car is personal information. l
#Implant Lets Patients Regrow Lost Leg Muscle Five people who suffered serious leg injuries have been able to regrow muscle tissue in their legs thanks to a new regenerative medicine treatment.
RSS Manufacturing, a company in Costa Mesa, California, that produces custom automobile and plumbing components,
making it possible to create new applications in areas as diverse as factory optimization, car maintenance,
He been experimenting with Freeboard using a car data interface called Open XC. Prasad took data on the on-off state of windshield wipers to come up with a prototype of a warning alert that could someday be dispatched to a car a few kilometers back to warn the driver of wet roads. set it up
and did it in a matter of a few minutesnd I don code for a living,
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