#Daimler unveils first self-driving truck approved for U s. highway testing The future of self-driving commercial vehicles is unclear,
The Daimler Inspiration Truck will be tested rigorously on Nevada roads as the company gathers data about the truck performance
which also is working on next-generation vehicles, including hybrid electrics intended for city use. What different about Daimler truck?
Self-driving work rigs are not new. You can see them on farms in the form of grain harvesters and planters;
But those vehicles aren't designed to operate alongside other cars and trucks on the highway.
The Inspiration Truck has been licensed by the state of Nevada to do just that share the roads.
Autonomous trucks could provide several advantages for the trucking industry. They could dramatically reduce the chance for human error,
The savings in fuel costs would come from the truck's ability to accelerate and decelerate more gradually than humans normally do.
car never gets tired. It doesn't have any emotions when it's driving home from a breakup with its girlfriend.
and monitors to locate other vehicles on the road enables the Inspiration Trucks to remain in their lane,
the Inspiration Truck is not quite riverless. There is a human driver on board ready to make lane changes
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the United kingdom is forecast to have more than 10 million homes with solar panels and more than 6 million with electric vehicles,
while delivering stronger voltage to recharge an electric car. All the data in one placesmart meters and growing grids create a lot of data.
cars and fleet vehiclesnd sold it to fleet operators and car makers like Porsche. Those companies, in turn, typically made it available through smartphone apps or dashboard consoles.
the switching of its windshield wipershich would imply that it has started to rain. f several cars in a location show that a low temperature is kicking in,
safety patrols and law enforcement. he most important data come from a handful of car functions:
the time of day, the GPS coordinates, the temperature outside the car, what the brakes are doing (particularly automatic braking systems),
when that comes. anfield wouldn say how much Inrix charges fleets and car makers, only that it was a minuscule sum compared to the overall cost of operating a vehicle. he charge for the service will be paid by the OEMS original equipment manufacturers for the first few years;
after that, if customer wants to continue, then he might pay for an extended subscription. i
this observation could help lead to more sensitive hydrogen sensors for detecting leaks in fuel-cell-powered vehicles. ne main challenge
#An Electric car Heater Can't Be Too Thin or Too Economical Just about every electrical device seems to want to slim down to a thin filmf possible,
Its first application will likely be as a heater in an electric car, which, unlike conventional vehicles, can exploit the warmth of air that been passed over an internal combustion engine.
But standard car heaters, which use a matrix with embedded copper wire (often in seats or in the steering wheel), are power-hungry.
That why today drivers of e-cars must either shiver or drain their car already stressed-out batteries. n the most unfavorable case,
you can only drive half the usual distance with the carwhen using the heater, says Serhat Sahakalkan,
who managing the project for Fraunhofer lab in Stuttgart. The idea is to mix nanotubes into a fluid to create a slurry,
says Pieter van Rooyen, CEO of Edico Genome. The data comes from the sequencing machine in a particular file format,
says van Rooyen. Its algorithms are tailor-made to identify genetic mutations, and while these identification processes are ticking along the data is constantly being compressed
van Rooyen tells Spectrum. Van Rooyen predicts that in a few years, every infant born in the developed world will have sequenced its genome in the hospital.?
It just a matter of time before clinical genomics will be with us everywhere, he says. t prudent to have the infrastructure ready.
Meanwhile, sending humans around in trucks or dangling them in climbing harnesses can be slow and risky.
Imagine getting a dent in your car and it immediately popping back to its original structure.
#Business models For Cars Need To Evolve Beyond Ownership Annie Hsu is the strategy director at global design and strategy firm frog.
A host of new car sharing and ride-hailing services have chipped away at the landscape of car ownership over the past several years.
Alixpartners, a global advisory firm, estimates that car sharing services have cannibalized sales of 500,000 vehicles over the past decade,
U s. car sales in 2014 totaled 16.5 million units. These estimates do not even account for the impact from ride-hailing services such as Uber or Lyft.
however, is the fact that consumers are hungry for new ways to access the car, perhaps more than changes to the car itself.
the vehicle itself is just one part of what it means to own a car. A few companies have partnered with startup services to create e toohourly models,
but they are late to the game. Manufacturers can reframe their current definition of innovation by taking inspiration from other markets and pushing automotive boundaries in the following ways:
they require significant shifts in the business model to expand the total offering that cars provide to drivers.
where consumers see cars as purely utilitarian tools, manufacturers need to push beyond the current model cross product, business model and culture d
as well as producing'electrolyte fuels'that might be used to power future electric vehicles, "said Mingzhe Yu, lead author of the paper and a doctoral student at Ohio State.
as well as producing'electrolyte fuels'that might be used to power future electric vehicles, "said Mingzhe Yu, lead author of the paper and a doctoral student at Ohio State.
#Now, a car powered by whisky residue Scientists in Scotland have become the first in the world to produce biofuel capable of powering cars from residues of the whisky industry.
and will help power modes of transport that cannot be electrified in the future such as heavy trucks or even aircraft.
#Now, a car powered by whisky residue Scientists in Scotland have become the first in the world to produce biofuel capable of powering cars from residues of the whisky industry.
and will help power modes of transport that cannot be electrified in the future such as heavy trucks or even aircraft.
#Artificial'plants'could fuel future cars Scientists have taken a big step towards creating artificial'plants'that can use only sunlight to make gasoline
and natural gas to run future cars without polluting the environment. A research team has created an artificial leaf that produces methane,
and the northern West bank to inspect the flow of Palestinian cars and trucks s
#New antibody may fight HIV better Scientists have identified a novel antibody that could more effectively detect and neutralise HIV virus in an infected patient.
former graduate student Adam Fritz, who injured his back in a motorcycle accident, appear modest as seen in the video.
former graduate student Adam Fritz, who injured his back in a motorcycle accident, appear modest as seen in the video.
#World's first sonic tractor beam lifts objects with sound Researchers, including one of Indian-origin,
have built the world's first sonic tractor beam that can lift and move objects using sound waves.
Tractor beams are mysterious rays that can grab and lift objects. The concept has been used by science-fiction writers,
Researchers have built now a working tractor beam that uses high-amplitude sound waves to generate an acoustic hologram
The tractor beam works by surrounding the object with high-intensity sound and this creates a force field that keeps the objects in place.
ever car, generate energy, "Monash Dean of Engineering Frieder Seible told AAP. Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten
the founder of American Wind, will drive across the United states in an electric vehicle powered by four Microcubes without stopping even once to plug in the battery for a recharge.
He has installed four Microcubes on the roof of a Ford C-Max Energi electric car, generating what he estimates will be 2,
While electric vehicles have been on the market for some time, promising to help us reduce our deadly carbon footprints and reliance on nonrenewable fuels,
the reality is that most electric cars can only drive short distancesnywhere from 25-312 milesefore they need to be recharged.
If Yost plan to drive the thousands of miles across America without stopping to recharge his vehicle works,
and car that produce and share clean energy Two of the most pressing and discussed issues facing the world today include the global housing crisis,
a first-of-its-kind design that uses an integrated symbiotic energy system to share energy between a single-unit, 3d printed solar powered house and a 3d printed electric car.
The fact that both house and car are completely 3d printed is an impressive feat in itself.
and accompanying Printed Utility Vehicle. To do so, they turned to their own BAAM (Big Area Additive manufacturing) system and a mighty 3d printing machine known as Bertha,
Both the house and car used over 25,000 lbs of printed material. The team took advantage of 3d printing instant feedback and rapid prototyping to experiment with new shapes, printing speeds, battery technologies, cleaner burning fuels,
The fact that both house and car are 3d printed would be impressive enough in its own right, however the true innovation comes from the integrated energy-sharing platform,
which uses a bidirectional wireless charger to direct energy to and from the car or house as needed.
and load by balancing the intermittent power from the buildin 3. 2 kw solar array with supplemental power from the vehicle.
even though we aren using our car and our house every minute of the day, they can still be generating
and at night or on cloudy days, the natural-gas-powered hybrid electric car can provide supplemental power.
and expertise of several specialized areas, including advanced manufacturing, vehicle technologies, building technologies and sustainable electricity.
& Car 3d printing is a technology that people are only beginning to understand. And, because of that, its true potential has begun only to be explored.
So, when a company like Local Motors 3d prints a car or Winsun, in China, 3d prints a complete mansion, theye really only demonstrated a proof of concept,
a simple exercise that proves to the world that 3d printing can be used to fabricate cars or houses.
Described in the most basic way possible, the AMIE project is a 3d printed car and a 3d printed house.
and a car that could feed energy to one another. On display at ORNL EERE Industry Day, is integrated a complete energy system,
and murphy bed with an accompanying Printed Utility Vehicle (PUV). The home, on the one hand, receives energy from solar panels affixed to its roof,
This energy is passed from home to car or vice versa through a bidirectional wireless power transfer system, a pad besides the structure over which the PUV parks.
What wee doing is taking a different approach to battery storage where the batteries wee using for this project were once a part of a vehicle.
And, when theye expended their useful life for a vehicle, theye still useful for home energy storage,
the BAAM was capable of printing the frame for a complete vehicle live on the floor of the IMTS trade show in Chicago about a year ago,
durability and imperviousness to water means they are used everywhere, from packaging to cars and furniture and toys.
On the path to commercialisation, her team found an even more effective approach was to use the polymers in another type of waste used car tyres.
In Australia alone, this technology has resulted so far in over two million used car tyres being converted from waste into a valuable feedstock for steel production.
Wegner likens the system to a car radiator and says the exchange stops the heat from nearing the gill surface where it would be cooled by the water flow through the gills.
Dr Ni said the technology eventually could be used for military applications like making large objects like vehicles or aircraft or even individual soldiers"invisible".
could lead to developments in areas as diverse as high-powered"tractor beams";"or manipulating drug delivery in the human body.
"Tractor beams, delivering cancer drugs and other new potentials Professor Drinkwater said the importance of developing a single-sided device was expanded that it the potential of the technology
and paved the way for the development of'tractor beams'that could pull objects toward the sound source."
They are planned also for use in the next Mars rover vehicle. ut if they become easier and cheaper to make,
The demand for hydrogen as a clean fuel for vehicles and other applications is expected to increase.
"Tests conducted on older high mileage vehicles have yielded tremendous results, one 200,000 mile engine still runs like new,"states N1 Technologies CEO Steve Lovern.
The integration of touch applications to dashboards and other paneling in cars has long been desired by automotive designers
New possibilities for design Specifically designed for automobile center consoles and dashboards, household machines, wearable devices, industrial user interfaces, commercial applications and consumer devices,
or run our cars without adding any greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California,
#Self-Assembled DNA NANOSTRUCTURES Could Be used as Smart Drug-Delivery Vehicles Researchers from Aalto University have published an article in the recent Trends in Biotechnology journal.
Lithium-ion batteries have been used commonly in laptop and tablet computers, electric vehicles and renewable energy systems for more than two decades.
Flame retardants are added to foams found in mattresses, sofas, car upholstery and many other consumer products.
which uses the body as a vehicle to deliver magnetic energy between electronic devices. An advantage of this system is that magnetic fields are able to pass freely through biological tissues,
which makes the vehicle again smaller, Steelant says. The Jaxa project has studied the potential market for hypersonic airliners travelling at Mach 5 and found a 100-passenger aircraft flying two round trips per day is realistic based on market research.
and investors because they were concerned deeply about the impact of the European parliament's network neutrality proposals on start-up innovation in Europe,"Stanford professor Barbara van Schewick,
and used a nanoscale vehicle made of DNA to deliver a CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool into cells in both cell culture and an animal model.
This work focused on demonstrating the potential of a new vehicle for directly introducing the CRISPR-Cas9 complex-the entire gene-editing tool-into a cell."
comparted to about six hours for nanoscale vehicles without the coating. his combination of features means that the drugs can
In 1983, Marc Van Montagu and Jeff Schell at the University of Ghent in Belgium introduced the world to modern plant genetic engineering.
and cost Americans $10 billion more than burglary, car theft, and property theft combined in 2012.
He started selling CDS from his car, and eventually scored a deal with the influential music label Def Jam Records.
or car wash those were the businesses back then. Things you can get in easily to get out of that life.
and headphones with aftermarket car parts, dog and cat products, and RC cars a
#The Apple Pay effect is real n-store mobile payments volume will top $800 billion in 2019 Mobile payments the use of phones to complete transactions in stores instead of cash
and physical card swipes are going to grow much more quickly than many observers Believe in no small part,
yet weigh about as much as a compact car. From an altitude of 18,000 to 27 000 metres, the drones are designed to beam down internet connectivity to regions of the world where wireless internet access is unavailable,
#Porsche, Audi unveil all-electric models to challenge Tesla Tesla will soon face competition in the luxury all-electric car segment after Porsche
Audi unveiled the concept car for its"e-tron quattro"vehicle, a sporty SUV, with a range of more than 500 km.
"When we designed this car, we knew it had to be a real Porsche, "chief executive Matthias Müller said in an interview on the eve of the Frankfurt Motor Show."
"It will certainly sharpen the public focus on electric vehicles and raise overall awareness. Consumers are also set to gain from growing offerings of electric cars, especially in the performance segment,
"Commerzbank analyst Sascha Gommel told Reuters. Tesla's Elon musk put his electric-car patents into the public domain last year in the hope of boosting development of competing electric car technology.
One of the most closely watched design elements will be how far the cars can travel without having to be recharged.
Tesla is at work developing a network of charging stations across North america and Europe. That could help open doors for Volkswagen as many consumers are waiting for suitable infrastructure to be developed.
It's not known how the new cars will be priced Tesla's Model X starts around $77, 000 US 0
former graduate student Adam Fritz, who injured his back in a motorcycle accident, appear modest as seen in the video.
That's why Poland's Ideabank turned four BMW i3 electric cars into mobile ATMS, dispensing cash to customers via a mobile app, reports Carscoops.
From the perspective of the power grid, electric vehicles (EVS) can in many respects be considered a variation of behind-the-meter storage they just happen to be mobile.
But electric cars create challenges for grid operators. Because they draw so much current during charging, there is the potential to overload circuits that serve neighborhoods.
Close on the horizon is so-called vehicle to grid (V2g) technology. Standards will finally make it possible to use the EV battery in two-way operation with utilities.
500 watt model fits into the trunk of a car. o if you ran out of electricity somewhere,
or aesthetic reasons (such as maintaining the colors for cars, clothes etc
#Africa Could Quadruple Renewable energy Capacity By 2030 These are the primary conclusions from a new report published by the International Renewable energy Agency (IRENA), Africa 2030,
The documents reveals that the car array of sensors will notice a cyclist among other objects and vehicles on the road.
It describes how the car would use a combination of a camera Lidar and radar to collect information about objects that surround the car.
It does this by examining the height of objects it may think are compared cyclists with the average height of cyclists it has identified previously.
The car measures the distance between the top of the cyclist head and the pavement at various ranges,
and the size and shape of the cyclist hands, arms and head. he computing device may be configured to determine other subsets relating to other aspects of the cyclist, such as one or more subsets indicative of a type of vehicle of the cyclist,
Google's prototype two-seater'bubble'cars have buttons to begin and end the drive, but no other controls.
and negotiate its way around pedestrians and other vehicles. Under the vision unveiled by Google,
The cars are expected also to be electric, capable of going 100 miles (160 km) before needing to be recharging.
The front of the vehicle has a soft foam-like material where a traditional bumper would be and a more flexible windscreen
and the ability to self-drive will depend on specifically designed Google road maps tested on the company's current fleet of vehicles.
But ultimately the vehicles will be faster and will be able to use Google's extended maps service,
using GPS technology to locate the vehicle's exact position on an electronic map. A combination of radar, lasers and cameras sitting on top of the roof give the car a 360-degree'view,
'with sensors linked to computer software able to'see 'and identify people, cars, road signs and markings and traffic lights. n some embodiments, the type of vehicle of the cyclist may include other means of transportation such as a scooter or moped.
The Washington post notes that the patent remains vague, leaving open different possibilities for exactly how Google self-driving cars could work.
It shows an external airbag system in action that inflates if the car hits a pedestrian or other object.
Chris Urmson says the cars would still be test vehicles, and Google would collect data on how they interact with other vehicles and pedestrians.
Google is working on sensors to detect road signs and other vehicles, and software that analyzes all the data.
The small, bulbous cars without steering wheels or pedals are being tested at a Google facility in California.
Urmson wouldn't give a date for putting driverless cars on roads en masse saying that the system has to be safe enough to work properly.
He told reporters at the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit that Google doesn't know yet how it will make money on the cars.
Urmson wants to reach the point where his test team no longer has to pilot the cars.'
Google may face state regulatory hurdles depending on where it chooses to test the cars in public.
trains and cars are replaced by craft that can whisk us from London to Sydney in a just a few hours by flying most of the way in the outer limits of our atmosphere. he most important thing is that Emdrive is green,
and ultralight cars Researchers have demonstrated a new type of metal so light it can float on water.
Significant efforts in recent years have focused on developing lightweight polymer matrix composites to replace heavier metal-based components in automobiles and marine vessels.
The new composite has potential applications in boat flooring, automobile parts, and buoyancy modules as well as vehicle armour. h
#When a bike and car MERGE: Futuristic C-1 can reach 100mph and will NEVER fall over thanks to its self-balancing technology By Jack Millner For Mailonline Published:
But now a car as thin as a motorcycle could help you cut through traffic while keeping you safe and warm.
What's more, it uses gyro stabilisation to stay balanced, so unlike a motorcycle, it will never fall over.
Lit Motors, creator of the C-1 self-balancing car, recently showed off their futuristic vehicle at the 2015 Invention Awards,
'Our vehicle is the future of transportation, 'said founder of Lit Motors, Danny Kim, in a statement.'
and efficiency of a motorcycle with the safety and convenience of a car, creating the ultimate urban vehicle.'
our gyro system exerts 1300 ft-lbs of torque to control the tilt and lean of the vehicle.'
This effect is achieved by using spinning gyros embedded in the vehicle beneath the seat. A spinning disk-also known as a gyro-can keep its balance where a stationary disk would fall flat, just like a bicycle wheel.
It also allows the driver to squeeze into parking spaces normally reserved for motorcycles. Kim hopes the product will hit the market within two years and cost from $24, 000 (£15, 000) 0
which helps people remember events such as where they parked their car in a multi-storey car park or where they left a set of keys.
would work together to propel the vehicle at speeds of 3, 425mph (5, 500km/h). Two turbo jets would allow the aircraft to climb vertically at takeoff,
Firms buy Nokia's map business in bid to beat tech firms with self driving cars and navigation German carmakers BMW,
Germany's three premium carmakers will hold equal stakes in the business, known as HERE, clubbing together to keep the assets away from Internet rivals such as Uber of Silicon valley and China's Baidu and Tencent.
which Nokia will compensate the carmakers, the Finnish company said on Monday. Scroll down for video The transaction is expected to close in early 2016.
The purchase allows automakers to offer new premium features, like autonomous driving, in luxury cars, shaking up the pecking order between car makers,
which invented the motor car in 1886. But it is unclear how other HERE customers,
including rival carmakers, may respond to Germany's carmakers owning map technology, which many in the automotive, Internet and logistics industries see as key to their own strategies.'
'There is a risk that the other automakers will be pushed further into the arms of Google, 'said Richard Windsor an independent financial analyst who tracks major tech players.
At a later stage, the carmakers will invite private equity firm General Atlantic to join the consortium as an investor and potential mediator
HERE is the leading supplier of digital maps for most of the world's top carmakers,
which has begun to retool its business to focus on carmakers rather than consumers. Tomtom recently teamed up with Bosch, one of the world's top auto suppliers,
to create an alternative platform to HERE for carmakers. HERE was created via the $8. 1 billion acquisition of Navteq in 2008 by Nokia
but later switched to focus on carmakers. Nokia is now shedding its maps business as it integrates its purchase of telecom network equipment maker Alcatel Lucent.
said it expected to book a gain on the sale to the carmakers, including cumulative foreign exchange translation differences, of around 1 billion euros.
In bidding for HERE, the German carmakers appeared to use their status as key customers to fend off other bidders,
It shows a self driving Lexus stopping at a junction in Mountain view near the firm's HQ-then being rear ended by the car behind.'
a car slammed into the back of us at 17 mph and it hadn't braked at all,
The driver of the other car also complained of neck and back pain. The simulation shows Google's car being rear ended at 17mph at a junction in Mountain view after stopping at a red traffic lightin a blog post
he says the problem has been common.''Our self-driving cars are being hit surprisingly often by other drivers who are distracted and not paying attention to the road.'
One of our Lexus vehicles was driving autonomously towards an intersection in Mountain view, CA.'The light was green,
so three cars, including ours, braked and came to a stop so as not to get stuck in the middle of the intersection.'
'The car's data confirmed it was hit at 17mph.''As you can see from the video above,
and the vehicle behind us had plenty of stopping distance but it never decelerated.''This certainly seems like the driver was distracted
'Thankfully, everyone in both vehicles was okay, except for a bit of minor whiplash, and a few scrapes on our bumper.'
'The other vehicle wasn't so lucky; its entire front bumper fell off.''New data released by Google reveals other drivers have hit the firm's cars 14 times since the start of our project in 2009,
and it says'not once has the self-driving car been the cause of the collision.''''The clear theme is human error
This prototype is the first vehicle built from scratch for the purpose of self-driving, Google says.
'These prototype vehicles are designed from the ground up to be fully self-driving, 'Google said.''They're ultimately designed to work without a steering wheel or pedals,
and they'll drive using the same software that our existing Lexus vehicles usehe same fleet that has driven self over 1 million miles
Those regulations also require a driver to be able to take back control of the car at any time.
is controlled computer cars that can eliminate human error, which is a factor in an estimated 90 percent of the 1. 2 million road deaths that occur worldwide each year.
'We want to partner to bring self-driving to all the vehicles in the world, 'Brin told a group of journalists
'This vehicle is really all about us learning.''This vehicle could go on a freeway, but when we think about introducing the technology,
we want to do that very thoughtfully and very safely, 'Urmson says. Convincing drivers that driverless technology is safe is one of the hurdles the company must overcome.
and notes that Google's vehicles have completed more than 1. 7 million miles of testing. He says all but one of the accidents were caused by drivers in other cars;
in the only incident caused by a Google car, a staffer was driving in manual mode.
Consumers question whether they can trust self-driving cars to work all the time, who will be liable if there's an accident
and how self-driving cars will interact with regular cars, says the consulting firm J. D. Power and Associates.
and the site will feature a monthly report that will include details of any accidents involving Google cars.
when they interact with the cars. The prototype cars-assembled in suburban Detroit by Roush Industries-have the same array of radars, lasers and cameras as Google's fleet of Lexus SUVS,
which allows them to share data. If one car's camera spots orange cones and construction signs, for example, it will alert all the others to slow down in that area or reroute around a lane closure.
Dmitri Dolgov the head of software for the self-driving car project, says Google's software has gotten much better over the last year at classifying objects, like trees and mailboxes,
and predicting behavior of pedestrians and other cars. For example, Google's cars will slow down if they sense that a car in the next lane is speeding up to cut in front of them.
And in one recent test, a Google car paused when a cyclist ran a red light.
Another car, driven by a human, went ahead and nearly hit the cyclist. The system isn't perfect.
On a test drive one of Google's Lexus SUVS seemed momentarily confused when a mail truck partially blocked its path.
Later, during a demonstration drive in Google's parking lot, the prototype-without a wheel or pedal-braked
when it spotted a row of folding chairs. It had to figure out that the chairs wouldn't move before it proceeded.
Dolgov says it's impossible to predict everything its test cars might see, so they're programmed to act in the most conservative way
that can pilot the car on the highway with minimal input from the driver. Unlike Google, automakers think self-driving cars will arrive feature-by-feature instead of all at once,
says Google's'moon shot'strategy is difficult and riskier than just adding features to existing cars.
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