and that was one of the key components in a reported investment deal that Baidu is making in car service Uber.
This robotic fuel cap essentially keeps track of the fuel poured into your vehicle independently of the truck itself
the system fits into your Class-A truck gashole and tracks the gallons poured. The system is tamper-proof
and measures the gas poured into the vehicle and prevents siphoning. ompany owners can install it on the fuel tank in less than a minute.
#Sidecar Follows The Competition Starts Charging A $1##Ridesafe##Fee Last year, Uber introduced a afe Ridesfee that added a $1 charge to uberx fares.
was meant to help them cover the cost of background checks, vehicle screenings, and he development of safety features.
And now Sidecar a perhaps lesser mentioned competitor in the taxis-that-aren-actuallyaxis arena that wee come to call idesharingfollows suit.
Starting tomorrow, Sidecar will charge $1 more per ride for what they call the idesafefee.
-A $1 million insurance policy on each ride (as personal auto insurance generally doesn cover commercial use)- Background checks-Regular vehicle records checks Sidecar is taking on Uber et al. with an interesting tactic:
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
which designs, builds and sells vehicles through the use of co-creation and microfactories in Chandler, Ariz.,
If we bring manufacturing of big hardware (home appliances, vehicles) within 100 miles of the most densely populated areas in the world,
and exchange ideas on vehicle innovations. GE Appliances is building a microfactory called Firstbuild with the goal of speeding appliance innovations to market by opening up the process to the brightest minds from around the globe.
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.
It found that 70 percent of trucks arrive too early, whether the ship is ready to receive the cargo or not.
track school busses and use cases we probably haven even imagined. These sensors will add information to an ever-growing network of connected devices producing mountains of data.
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.
The company is already working with Alibaba to bring its navigation and music services to its in-vehicle screens.
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
The company said in July that it sees consumer spending go up 30%after a customer adopts a Paypal credit vehicle,
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.
As members of Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicles the APRIL laboratory and the autonomous boat team at the university of Michigan Skyspecs founding team met.
#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.
What made Rentecarlo interesting is validated that they a market of individuals willing to provide supply
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
So she commuted on the bus to Lone Mountain College, a small Catholic school that has closed
and ankle prosthesis that behaves as he puts it more like a motorcycle than a bicycle meaning that it puts energy into the system rather than relying solely on human power.
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.
or when the glare from the truck behind keeps you from looking in the rearview mirror a solution might be just around the corner.
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.
This is a known stumbling block for self-driving vehicles and one can envision how the extension of these concepts might lead to better sensors for advanced active safety and driverless car systems.
#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.
If researchers can figure out how to make the stuff in large quantities it could be used as a structural material for making planes and trucks as well as in battery electrodes.
but also heavy so they can t be used as structural materials where weight is critical##for example in the bodies of cars.
This eliminates the need for using tractors, which can damage the high stalks, and reduces the amount of fertilizer needed earlier in the season,
GPS-guided tractors routinely apply seed and fertilizer across large areas, and new airborne drones are providing farmers with high-resolution sensing ability (see gricultural Drones,
It can also be used for a variety of other purposes such as powering natural-gas vehicles heating homes and making fertilizer.
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.
and size savings particularly in electric vehicles by reducing the need for complex cooling systems (see TR10:
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.
In Paris, the Mobile Experience Lab worked with the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens to create a bus stop designed not just to help people use the bus system itself
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.
Automated System Lets Trucks Convoy as One A recent demonstration involving two trucks tethered by computer control shows how automation
and vehicle-to-vehicle communication are creeping onto the roads. A pair of trucks convoying 10 meters apart on Interstate 80 just outside Reno,
Nevada, might seem like an unusual sightot to mention unsafe. But the two trucks doing this a couple of weeks ago were actually demonstrating a system that could make trucking safer and much more efficient.
While the driver in front drove his truck normally, the truck behind him was operated partly by a computernd it stuck to its leader like glue.
When instructed to do so the computer controlled the gas and brakes to pull to within 10 meters (roughly three car lengths) of the truck ahead.
The computer then kept the two trucks paired at this precise distance, as if linked by some invisible cable,
until the system was disengaged. If the truck in front stopped suddenly, the one behind could have reacted instantaneously to avoid a collision.
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).
So it is covered by the same guidelines and regulations as adaptive cruise control, a feature in some cars that automatically keeps vehicles on the highway a safe distance from the ones around them.
This kind of latooning? as it is knowneduces the wind drag on both trucks, and could therefore save trucking companies millions of dollars in fuel every year.
The trucks were fitted with technology developed by a startup called Peloton Tech (elotonis The french word for platoon.
Peloton system consists of radar sensors, a wireless communications system, and computers connected to each truck central computer.
Video screens in both cabs show the drivers views of blind spots around the two vehicles.
Joshua Switkes, CEO of Peloton Tech, says the fuel savings are 4. 5 percent for the front truck and 10 percent for the rear truck.
This could amount to $100, 000 each year. or truck companies, these savings are enormous, Switkes says.
He adds that the technology could even allow competing companies to platoon together to get these savings.
Switkes says the technology should also improve safety since drivers have greater visibility and the radar systems can brake automatically if needed.
In theory, more trucks could be tethered virtually together this way, although the initial plan is to connect only two.
The prospect of two trucks driving so close together under computer control may raise concerns among other drivers,
but the technology involved, including the vehicle-to-vehicle communications system used to share information between the two trucks,
is set to become far more common in the next few years. 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.
Vehicle platooning has been a subject of research in industry and academia for decades, but efforts have intensified in recent years as the underlying technology has advanced.
A European project, called SARTRE (Safe Road trains for the Environment), has been exploring ways for vehicles to travel in platoons since 2009.
This effort is funded by the European commission and involves various companies, including the carmaker Volvo. Another effort, called Energy ITS,
which is backed by the Japanese government and involves several Japanese universities, has been testing platoons made of three semi-automated or fully automated trucks since 2007.
A U s. project, called PATH (Partners for Advanced Transportation technology operated out of the University of California,
Berkeley, is testing vehicle platooning along with other technologies designed to improve transportation. Steven Shladover, a research engineer at UC Berkeley involved with PATH, says that his own experiments indicate that platooning vehicles even closer togetherust a few meters apartcould lead to fuel savings of 20 percent.
But it would also introduce new risks. Once trains of trucks get too long, it much harder for drivers of other cars to change lanes. would not advocate running very long sequences of these trucks close together,
Shladover says k
#Genome Editing to Reverse Bubble Boy Syndrome Researchers used an emerging technique to correct the gene behind a fatal immune system disorder in an infant.
A new kind of gene therapy which involves editing, rather than replacing, faulty genes in sick people, is being used experimentally in patients.
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
and streams vehicle data to a smartphone app to help users track their driving, their fuel economy,
and their vehicle maintenance status. Kiip will use data from that device to target promotions inside the Mojio phone app.
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.
which can be caused by motorcycle accidents, bomb blasts, and more, lead to debilitating condition with limited treatment options, says Andrés García,
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,
Yet Freeboard stands out among the various platforms because t the easiest to use, says Venkatesh Prasad, group and technical leader for vehicle design and infotronics at Ford motor.
Prasad showed how Freeboard could quickly unlock the value of vehicle-generated data. 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,
First, Tesla sold 23,000 cars last year. The gigafactory, which would start production in 2017,
would by 2020 make enough batteries for 500,000 electric cars. It would produce enough batteries annually to store 35 gigawatt hours of electricity, hence the name.
when electric car sales so far come nowhere close to justifying it? The project seems more puzzling in light of the hard times at other electric car battery factories in the United states. In 2009,
because electric car sales have been slow. All of the battery makers involved have struggled (see oo Many Battery factories, Too Few Electric cars,
and one, A123 Systems, went bankrupt. Musk is betting that Tesla can generate a much bigger market for electric cars.
To keep the factory humming he will have to sell more than 10 times as many electric vehicles in a year as Nissan managed last year
(and Nissan has sold more electric cars than any other automaker). Musk has some reason for confidenceast year Tesla sold as many electric cars as Nissan in the United states,
even though Tesla Model S costs two to three times as much as Nissan electric car, the Leaf. He seems to be betting that a huge factory will significantly reduce the cost of making batteries,
which remain the most expensive part of electric cars. In the ideal scenario, that cost reduction would help Tesla produce a mass-market car similar in cost to the Nissan leaf or Chevrolet volt but that,
crucially, will be able to go more than twice as far on a charge (the car would also be able to accelerate faster than the Leaf).
Yet it not clear that a huge factory would deliver the needed cost reductions. According to a presentation to investors, it would lower costs by 30 percent.
Tesla has a good track record for reducing battery costs (see riving Innovation, and even incremental improvements at conventional factories could reduce costs by 15 percent by 2020,
says Menahem Anderman, president of Advanced Automotive Batteries. But it unclear where the remaining 15 percent might come from.
If Tesla can sell as many cars as it hopes, there would likely be no alternative market for those batteries,
Some states are even reconsidering laws that restrict how Tesla can sell cars in their state,
a factory to supply 100,000 cars. anasonic can afford to lose the business, says Anderman.
it worth noting that 500,000 cars is still a tiny fraction of the worldwide auto industry.
GM sold nearly 10 million cars last year. If electric vehicles are ever to make a dent in the world auto market,
then gigafactories will need to become a reality
#The Latest Chat App for iphone Needs No Internet connection Mobile app stores are stuffed with messaging apps from Whatsapp to Tango and their many imitators.
#Apps by the Dashboard Light Starting next month, many car buyers will be getting a novel feature:
Backseat passengers could get streaming movies and fast Wi-fi connections to smart watches and tablets in (and near) the car.
Many other carmakers, including Ford and Toyota, are following suit, both in the U s. and worldwide, using partnerships with wireless carriers to deliver the connectivity.
By providing apps, carmakers see an opportunity for product differentiation and steady revenue streams. They also suggest that connectivity can lead to new safety features
director of product strategy and infotainment for GM vehicles. hey go through rigorous safety and security standards,
since it pulling data from the car, it locked down before it ever gets into the vehicle.
As a result the technology and interface need to be almost as simple as an analog radio knob,
whose apps will be available in GM cars. Called Kaliki, BT Software app provides audio readings of storiesone by humans, not text-to-speech softwareulled from mainstream publications such as USA Today and TV Guide,
assuming games ever comenless the vehicle transmission is in ark. Despite the hurdles, 4, 000 developers have registered with GM app store,
getting their apps included in a car could help them market versions that work on smartphones.
And apps in cars command much more attention if they are among just a few that a driver can choose from while sitting behind the wheel for an hour or two every day.
In the longer term, apps will emerge that draw on data generated by the car, says GM Ross.
Apps tapping information from many cars could alert drivers to accidents; signals indicating hard braking
or slipping wheels in other cars could warn of slick roads ahead. Sensors can ultimately help bring about semi-autonomous
or fully autonomous cars (see ata Show Google Robot Cars Are Smoother, Safer Drivers Than You or I. Henry Tirri,
CTO of Nokia, says the potential for apps in cars is given vast the amount of data vehicles produce. he car is already probably the densest sensor hub that an individual owns right now,
he says. See fter Microsoft Deal, What Left of Nokia Will Bet on Internet of things. In Audi case, the service will cost $100 for up to five gigabytes of data over six months,
GM has announced not pricing except to say that customers can get various plans combining service to their homes, phones, and cars.
Both GM and Audi are using AT&T to provide service (see M and AT&T Blur Line Between Car and Smartphone r
Hamedi said the aerogel batteries could be used in electric car bodies, as well as in clothing, providing the garment has a lining.
Hamedi said the aerogel batteries could be used in electric car bodies, as well as in clothing, providing the garment has a lining g
the miracle material that promises to transform everything from smartphones and computers to cars, buildings and satellites.
Rust-free cars Graphene repels water and is highly conductive. This combination delays the oxidising reaction that causes rust.
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