#Ford's smart lighting technology spots potential hazards There are some incredible technological strides being made to improve road safety,
Ford is developing headlight technology that widens the beam at junctions and detects pedestrians and animals.
Ford's prototype system relies on a front-mounted camera, which works in tandem with GPS information to better illuminate bends and dips along a route.
It's not just Ford working on safer lighting technology. Mercedes'new E-Class will offer optional headlamps with 84 LEDS that allow full-beam to be used without blinding oncoming drivers,
while Audi and BMW have been testing laser headlamps that are significantly brighter than traditional xenon or LED options.
Ford expects the GPS-based lighting technology to be available for customers in the near future,
"The U k. is home to one of the only electric vehicle battery plants in the world, the Nissan plant in Tyneside.
that where we get to this $100 per kilowatt-hour cost. 24m is targeting a lithium-ion energy storage market that already being targeted by contenders like Tesla motors, Boston-Power,
the state has been paying close attention to EVS lately because of Tesla motors. The electric-car maker is building its giant battery igafactoryoutside of Reno.
The state is also working with Tesla motors to help increase the number of Tesla fast chargers in the state as well.
#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
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.*
#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
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
#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,
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.
Tesla motors, freely available. 10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life"The first-generation hydrogen fuel cell vehicles,
requiring a concerted effort and unconventional collaboration between automakers, government regulators, academia and energy providers,
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,"
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,
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
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
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.
Hyundai was the first out of the gate with the Tucson fuel-cell car last spring.
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.
but one executive said the automaker would field what could turn out to be an SUV-or crossover-based car in 2017.
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.
or as a hyper-efficient seat warmer in a car. Although only flat mesh connected into a tube has been made so far,
"Other co-authors are Hamish Brown, Adrian D'Alfonso, Pratik Koirala, Colin Ophus, Yuyuan Lin, Yuya Suzuki, Hiromi Inada, Yimei Zhu, Les Allen,
and S. Suzuki,"Development of metallic contaminant detection system using RF High-Tc SQUIDS for food inspection,"IEEE Trans.
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.
"Other co-authors are Hamish Brown, Adrian D'Alfonso, Pratik Koirala, Colin Ophus, Yuyuan Lin, Yuya Suzuki, Hiromi Inada, Yimei Zhu, Les Allen,
the nanogenerator ultimately could provide automobile manufacturers a new way to squeeze greater efficiency out of their vehicles.
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
#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,
Jaguar land rover is investigating a method already used by NASA to develop a pilot concentration skills
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.
#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
The BMW was fitted with a mechanical rig capable of pressing the pedals and turning the steering wheel on command
Those selected to take the driver seat are judged on the track by a series of variables.
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
Anders Carp is head of traffic management at Saab the Swedish defense and security company that created this technology.
it may break it down as a seat, four legs, and a back. Since the SLAM-aware system creates a three-dimensional map of
#Lexus Hoverboard Gets Off The Ground By Michael Greshko, Inside Science-In the classic 1989 film Back to the Future 2,
Luxury car manufacturer Lexus appears to be ready for him. This week, they announced that they've built a"real, rideable"hoverboard.
Lexus has no plans to sell the prototype board, Ars Technica reports. But even so, it's really floating there!
And on the hoverboard's official website, Lexus hints at how they pulled it off:
The Lexus Hoverboard uses magnetic levitation to achieve amazing frictionless movement. Liquid nitrogen cooled superconductors and permanent magnets combine to allow Lexus to create the impossible.
Now, Lexus, your hoverboard is really cool, but"impossible"?"Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Levitation is not only possible but also well understood from a physics perspective.
Lexus is taking advantage of key properties of materials called superconductors. As you might expect,
these sorts of materials are"super"at conducting electricity: When superconductors are cooled below a certain temperature,
More specifically, Lexus'use of liquid nitrogenhich has a temperature of-321 degrees Fahrenheitells us that they're using a high-temperature superconductor like yttrium barium copper oxide,
which is perfect for the kind of levitation Lexus is (Tony?)hawking. Yes,"liquid nitrogen"and"high-temperature"correctly went in the same sentence.
Lexus'superconductor probably starts working at about-292 degrees Fahrenheit, which sounds unfathomably cold. However, this temperature is actually quite warm by superconductor standards.
So how did Lexus float its high-temperature superconductors? By playing a magnetic trick on them.
Lexus has come up with a cool way to use superconductors to levitate a hoverboard and its rider, an impressive achievement,
if true--Lexus hasn't provided video of someone riding the board. But by now, you've probably noticed a theme:
And this is where Lexus is giving us a little movie magic. If the superconductors are in the hoverboard,
This is where Lexus'"permanent magnets"come in. Gourlay suspects that Lexus laid down a bunch of very strong rare-earth magnets underneath the"sidewalk,
"setting up a magnetic field powerful enough to support both board and, Lexus promises, a rider.
In fact, Gizmodo reports that the hoverboard only works on"special metallic surfaces.""This sort of setup is probably too expensive for your everyday skate park.
#Audi has made a synthetic, high-grade fuel from plant sugars Just last month, German car manufacturer Audi invented a carbon-neutral diesel fuel,
made from water, carbon dioxide and renewable energy sources, and they say their pilot plant in Dresden will pump out 160 litres of the of the stuff every day in the coming months to power their Audi a8 cars.
'Manufactured in France by Audi partner company, Global Bioenergies, the fuel is produced by converting corn-derived glucose-a renewable source of biomass sugar-into isobutane gas.
and projects dedicated to getting'e-ethanol Audi'e-diesel'and Audi'e-benzin'on the market in the coming years,
it hard not to be impressed by a car company that appears to be invested so in making petroleum-based fuels a thing of the past
#BMW wants to turn street lights into electric car charging stations A new technology that allows electric car drivers to charge their vehicles directly from street lights has been showcased by the BMW Mini team at the annual Low Carbon Oxford Week event in the UK.
Called'Light and Charge',these prototype street lights combine energy-efficient Light Emitting Diodes (LED) and BMW Chargenow recharging stations,
a member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, told the press. The team announced that it would be testing the Light
Theye also got some of the charging lamps installed outside the BMW headquarters in Munich,
It no surprise that the German car company has made a commitment to getting more electric cars on the road.
According to Reuters, BMW has funded already software and applications that help electric car drivers locate nearby parking spots
and are reportedly in talks with US competitors Tesla motors about their new street light charging stations. n
and his colleagues now want the electricity supply sector to adopt safety measures used by vehicle manufacturers.
The leader of the research effort Tadashi Suzuki notes that while it is currently unclear how these symptoms correlate with reduced protein degradation caused by insoluble aggregates
or as a hyper-efficient seat warmer in a car. Although only flat mesh connected into a tube has been made so far,
The Arduino of Cars Last year we saw Local Motorsstrati, a compact car with a 3d printed body, seats, windshield and support structures.
For comparison, the $2. 25m Bugatti Veyron completes the same acceleration test in 2. 46s.
and customizable platform for car manufacturers to use as the basis for their vehicles. Czinger and other DM officials talk at length about their vision in this Oeilly interview.
and how many small automakers will be born thanks to its technology. via 3d Print i
#Fove VR Headset Locks Onto Your Gaze Fove is the first virtual reality headset to feature eye-tracking--meaning, among other things,
military vehicle manufacturers can improve their product designs to enable Marines to fit better in seats
in the front and two in the back provide lift and thrust, with controls and a seat in the middle for a pilot.
so that car manufacturers can fix bugs or add new functionality. This is something few car companies, aside from Tesla, do currently.
So far Audi has emerged as an early buyer; at CES, the company showed off a luxury concept car called the Audi Prologue that includes the Drive PX.
A year ago, the company announced at CES that it had developed a compact computer for processing sensor information (see udi Shows Off a Compact Brain for Self-Driving Cars.
That, too, included Nvidia chips. The introduction of Nvidia product is a landmark moment for deep learning,
may not be the seat of language comprehension, as has been scientific dogma for the past 140 years.
Last month, Mercedes-benz also entered the battery market for home and business use. Eco-entrepreneur Dale Vince, chair of the renewable energy firm Ecotricity,
e have designed a Maserati, but what most people will want is a good Toyota, Mr Mcloughlin said. he MPL was designed to be sophisticated as as we could make it,
so you could really push the state of the art. But ultimately, for commercialising it, it needs to be a lower-cost design. he lab has been awarded US$120 million by a programme run by the Pentagon Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help wounded warriors,
#Hyundai becomes first with Android Auto LOS ANGELES --Whether it's hunting for directions or tracking down trivia answers,
Hyundai thinks it has found the most seamless way yet to let drivers integrate their smartphones seamlessly into their cars.
Hyundai says it is the first automaker to launch Android Auto in a production car,
"Android Auto aligns with Hyundai's core interior design principles of safety, intuitiveness and simplicity,"said Dave Zuchowski, CEO of Hyundai Motor America, in a statement."
"We launched this highly anticipated feature on our best-selling Sonata, adding to our promise of value."
an organization representing automakers nationwide.""We have our sights set on inventing a world without drunk driving,
forcing the driver to press the button while sitting in the driver's seat.""We are in the process of taking all of those larger prototypes
The systems, in development with major auto makers, are at least five years away from market availability
BMW demonstrated this week at the Telematics Automotive conference near Detroit a differentiator that could save us time.
Other automakers are also in talks to license the tech. Of course, many such cars in a neighborhood could mean a sudden convergence on an empty space reminiscent of the last, desperate players in a game of musical chairs.
which can be compared to the popular Vespa scooter. The new Gogoro electric scooter is powered by the Gogoro G1 motor mounted on the Gogoro Aeroframe.
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