which light is polarized as it reflects off the surface of a lake or the hood of a car.
But NEIL also makes associations between these things to obtain common sense information that people just seem to know without ever saying##that cars often are found on roads that buildings tend to be vertical
or cars come in a variety of brands and models. And it begins to notice associations##that zebras tend to be found in savannahs for instance
and clunkyâ##if you wanted to cloak a car for example in practice you would have to completely envelop the vehicle in many layers of metamaterials in order to effectively hieldit from electromagnetic radiation.
and say it could open the door to better batteries for phones cars and other gadgets.
and make it impermeable to gastour says. his becomes increasingly important as automakers think about powering cars with natural gas.
so slowlyâ##centimeters per secondâ##that it was able to react with the water in a inder gentlermanner. f youâ##re driving your car at 5 miles per hour
A team has developed a programming language for chemistry that it hopes will streamline efforts to design a network that can guide the behavior of chemical-reaction mixtures in the same way that embedded electronic controllers guide cars robots and other devices.
rate paving the way for a more lightweight material for cars and electronics. Weighing in at two thirds less than aluminum magnesium is the lightest structural metal.
#Humancar aims for a healthy planet with healthy drivers At first glance it might look a bit like an elongated pedal car for kids,
row your car...Humancar aims for a healthy planet with healthy drivers History The Humancar is the brainchild of Chief Scientist/Engineer Charles Samuel Greenwood P. E.,who first hit upon the idea for a human
powered car some 40 years ago. Sitting in a traffic jam in Silicon valley in 1968 Greenwood noticed the many overweight commuters sitting in their cars breathing in noxious exhaust fumes.
He was inspired to create a modest modification to vehicles that would reduce the need for conventional fuel,
The car includes seating for four, with rowing handlebars for each passenger. It can be powered by one, two, three or four people, the battery-powered electric motor,
Team Building With much of the interest in the Humancar focusing on the environmental and physical health advantages of the car,
According to its developers the car engenders feelings of teamwork and social bonding amongst the occupants.
So if you don need to go anywhere you can jump in the car for some exercise that will generate electricity for your home
With the majority of car trips people make falling into the short, local variety the Impulse PS could well be a viable,
Chitin, one of the main components of their exoskeletons, has recently found use in things such as self-healing car paint, biologically-compatible transistors, flu virus filters,
but Japanese automaker Nissan has signed a pact with US space agency NASA to develop self-driving cars.
in fact, been in the car business for over forty years, ever since the first Lunar rover went for a spin during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971.
If autonomous cars become mainstream that would free us up to focus on other things while in the car.
#Scientists find that exposure to nanoparticles could impact cardiovascular health Due to its huge potential in applications ranging from cheaper vaccinations to energy-storing car panels there's plenty of excitement surrounding the emergence of nanotechnology.
and allow electric cars to travel 1. 5 times further though these numbers are still theoretical projections for now.
the number of electric cars boats and bikes in operation continues to grow and it's essential for the future sustainability of the planet that these vehicles are able to cope with the increasing demands being put on them.
#BMW VW join forces to build fast-charging stations for electric cars in US German car companies, BMW and Volkswagen are teaming up with Chargepoint to install a network of fast-charging stations for electric cars in the U s. The companies plan to install nearly 100 Chargepoint ports on the U s. East
and West Coasts by the end of 2015 as part of an effort to promote greater sales of EVS such as the BMW i3 and the VW e-Golf.
The BMW/VW endeavor follows the establishment by California-based electric car maker Tesla motors Inc of an extensive network of fast-charging stations for its battery-powered Model S sedan.
where Model S owners can quickly recharge their cars for free, now has nearly 2, 000 ports at more than 350 stations around the world, including 160 in the United states and Canada.
The Supercharger port uses a proprietary design that only works with Tesla cars. The Chargepoint network offers several kinds of ports that will accept SAE Combo connectors an industry standard type used on the i3
cars and other assets seized for dubious reasons. Often these seizures occurred after traffic stops for minor infractions.
In training seminars, some investigators even copped to having ish listsfor cars they wanted to seize.
Non-automobile transportation, meanwhile, is mixed a bag. Cycling is surging as a commuter method. Adjusted for population growth,
Eric Jaffe reports that young people are actually commuting by car at a slightly greater rate than they were in 1980.
St louis, Minneapolis, Baltimore, San antonio and San diego car commuting is more popular than it used to be.
Employment, however, ain where it used to be. prawling development patterns are very difficult for any mode of transportation besides the automobile,
or really any other worker with limited accessibility options if they decide not to use a car.
from the horse-drawn omnibus to the private car, untied that knot. Most people can now live miles from work.
is a design element in everything from Android phones to car steering wheels. Because the technology is currently relatively primitive in the mass market,
#Fast-growing Network Beyond Superchargers One of the most commonly cited arguments against electric cars is range anxiety.
which Model S owners can install in their cars for $1, 500 before delivery, or $3, 600 after delivery.
Assuming Tesla does stick to its 2017 timing for a launch of a lower-cost car,
and that it really can hit its goals of producing 500,000 cars per year by 2020,
Assuming Tesla does stick to its 2017 timing for a launch of a lower-cost car,
and that it really can hit its goals of producing 500,000 cars per year by 2020,
Sure, if electric car sales continue to grow, there will need to be more than two Wall Connectors at Destination Charging locations.
Obviously, the more Tesla cars there are on the road the more demand there will be for charging. But the Supercharger network, with its locations within a Tesla driving range for 80%of the U s. population,
It has exercise machines out front and a van with pictures of smiling elderly people. Even people without symptoms come,
#This prototype NYPD cruiser is the smartest cop car in the world To the untrained eye,
But this high-tech cruiser is the smartest cop car in the world.##It is the department s prototype##smart car,##outfitted with the latest gadgets in public safety.
It has infrared two monitors mounted on the trunk that record any numbers it sees##such as license plates and addresses.
The smart car is one of dozens of projects included in a long-term strategic plan known as NYPD2020,
The smart car prototype has been on the road for about a year and is based out of the 84th Precinct in Brooklyn Heights.
The car s scanner can read license plates, then check the results against a database that contains the plate numbers of cars that are stolen,
may have been involved in a crime, or have outstanding infractions. The data is stored for an indefinite period,
but no other car is outfitted with all of the technology, Mr. del Pozo said, adding that future smart cars might include fingerprint scanners and facial recognition sensors.
Besides getting officers to crime scenes, Mr. del Pozo said, a police cruiser should give officers information that helps them make better decisions in the field.##
I wanted to buy a car, so when I was worked 15, I for a summer doing business-to-business outbound sales.
The company was fined by a German privacy regulator#for the 2010 siphoning of people s passwords and communications by Google s Street view cars.
The car company, Mclaren is designing a sports car that uses a system adapted from fighter jets to keep a driver s vision clear in bad weather without the need for blades.##
is developing the method for its new supercar, expected to roll off the production line in 2015.
F1 car maker Mclaren is remaining tightlipped on the plans and refusing to reveal how the system will work
and Mrs Anderson noticed that drivers had to open the windows of their cars in order to see out of them.
For example,#every time we take a smartphone with us in a car, it beams information on our location and speed to Google.
Sandflea Looks like a slightly chunky remote-control car, right? Maybe, but your kid s RC can t leap tall buildings in a single bound the way this little guy can.
That is the equivalent of removing 2. 1 million cars from the road or planting 262
#Tesla batteries are powering an energy revolution Solarcity generator Tesla motors lithium-ion battery packs aren t just powering electric luxury sports sedans for wealthy any more.
#RF Safe-Stop can shut down a vehicle s engine by blasting radio waves Will high-speed car chases become a thing of the past?
A company in the U k. has developed a prototype that could stop cars in their tracks by blasting electromagnetic waves.##
In demonstrations seen by the BBC, a car drove towards the device at about 15mph (24km/h). As the vehicle entered the range of the RF Safe-Stop,
and the car rolled gently to a halt. Digital audio and video recording devices in the vehicle were affected also.
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if you got a car or some kids in the driveway.####Fedex founder Fred Smith has spoken repeatedly about his desire to#move to a fleet of unmanned aircraft,
##Examples of the links that NEIL has made include the facts that cars are found on roads
#Uber teams with GM and Toyota to help 100k drivers buy cars to get more Ubers on the road The expansion means hundreds of thousands more cars must come onto the Uber system.
Uber is launching a pilot program to finance new cars. The company is partnering with GM, Toyota,
and financial institutions to offer 100,000 driversreduced monthly car payments, in an effort get more Uber drivers on the road.##
##This kind of expansion means hundreds of thousands more cars must come onto the Uber system,
##Uber partner-drivers have a robust, reliable cash flow through the Uber platform every fully utilized car on the Uber system grosses over $100, 000/year.#
##Uber started out as an on-demand service for black town cars and has taken the cab industry by storm.
Users can now hail actual taxis, black cars, lower cost Uberx drivers in regular cars,
or SUVS in the app. The company s success inspired a wave of startups such as Lyft, Sidecar, Instacab,
The success of these companies is predicated on the availability of cars. The whole point is on-demand convenience,
and not having enough cars on the roads is a fast way to lose customers and curb growth.
##Helping people buy cars is a smart way to get more Uberx drivers. Uber drivers can make good money
and by lowering the upfront cost of owning a car, Kalanick creates a larger pool of drivers to draw from.##
#How cars of the future will make better use of data they collect every time you drive The interior of the Tesla Model S offers a glimpse of the data-rich driving environments of tomorrow.
Cars will be big data collectors in the future. They will continuously monitoring the operation and function of the many moving parts of the vehicle and hopefully giving you a warning well in advance of pending failure.##
Big data in the Connected car,##researchers at#IHS Automotive#forecasts there will be 152 million actively connected cars on roads globally by 2020,
there already are connected cars on the road. They track things like gas consumption, how many miles are left to be driven on the current tank of gas, tire pressure,
for example, through a cell phone built into the car, Bluetooth transmissions to other devices, or when the car goes in for service.
Boyadjis#admits, ##no one knows what to do with the information at this point, ##but the eventual goal is to learn user habits to improve the interfaces of the car##for example,
how do they use the radio?####and to monitor auto systems and catch failures well in advance.
We take the car in to a shop for an oil change and some other checks while it s there and then get the bad news. Or the car just up and dies on us.
Big data sensors in cars should help eliminate any surprises.####The cr#me de la cr#me is making an autonomous car.
In the era of big data and the car, maintenance intervals don t exist any more because it s based on the condition of the car.
Right now we have diagnostic information but as they collect more and more info, that will become prognostics.
Will be we doing preventive maintenance on automobiles instead of repairs, ##said Boyadjis. There is a concern over privacy, however.
Car rental companies have used GPS systems in their cars to#give customers a ticket #even though the police never caught them.
but feels the data belongs to car owners, who have the choice of opting into any data research and gathering.##
and most tend to be higher-end cars.####It s a challenge of finding a business model
When a car with its own coil is placed above the transmitter, the magnetic field induces a flow of power that charges the batteries.
if the field misses the car s receiving coils, it could attach to parts of the car
or attract stray objects.####Somehow we have to channel or contain the magnetic field produced by the transmitter to always be right below the receiver.
making the trek by car so they don t have to leave 200-pound Hugo behind.
but he understands his customers well enough to know he isn t the only one who hates cross-country travel by car.
but now these driverless robo-cars are breaking free of their confines and heading out into the city streets.
But thanks to a new fleet of pod cars, that might just be about to change. The first few units will be deployed as early as 2015.
the Milton Keynes pod cars will run on electricity, returning to their charging stations between fares.
The pod cars are planned to run along the streets of Milton Keynes for five years as part of a pilot program.
smartphone-hailed pod cars will someday grace the streets of cities all across the world.
##So Swedish automobile maker,#Volvo#(now owned by China s#Geely Holding#Group) decided to dispense with the battery entirely,
The#Lola B12 69/E, an electric racing car that recently set a land speed record for EVS of 328 kilometers (204 miles per hour,
when refined, can even be pumped into a car, a boat or motorbike. One kilogram of plastic produces almost one liter of oil.
or an electric car receives the power and starts recharging. Witricity says its system can move an impressive 3,
300 watts##enough to charge an electric car##with little efficiency loss. Says Eric Giler, the CEO of Witricity:##
which is reported to have plans to test a wireless charging station for plug-in cars. The technology has applications outside the consumer sphere as well.
Would you prefer to ride in a completely autonomous self-driving car, like Google s self-driving car,
#Instead of cars that have#no steering wheels, gas pedals, or brake pedals for drivers to control, Baidu is thinking about cars with intelligent assistants who help you drive.##
##This is actually an intelligent assistant collecting data from road situations, Baidu s Kai Yu told The next Web.
the search engine giant in the land of self-reliant independence is building a car that takes over completely.
-and Windows-enhanced cars will not start tapping into the next generation of Siri s, Google Now s and Cortana s intelligence.
#Here s why automakers want 4g technology in cars Automakers are counting on the connected car.
Today s cars are trying to replicate the smartphone experience. Touchscreen interfaces are common. Dashboard designers take UI tips from iphones,
and#automakers want to build apps for cars. Large automakers like General motors are taking the next obvious step
and#integrating 4G LTE service into their cars starting this year. Drivers pay a monthly service fee for#in-car 4g#that s separate from their smartphones,
and use it for an array of services from movies for kids in the backseat to sophisticated#GPS-on-steroids solutions.
debuted the option in their 2015 A3 car. GM is adding 4g capability to nearly all of their 2015 Buick models,
While some luxury cars have come with built in 3g in the past, there are two major game changers here:
New#car buyers#would be given a 3 gigabyte trial and data plans would be set up by AT&T The cheapest $5 plan offers 250 megabytes usable in a 24-hour period;
The use case of cars is different than phones. In promotional materials, Audi and GM both emphasize 4G LTE service as a mechanism for users to get in-car entertainment, rather than for navigation or safety monitoring.
Buick boasts they cankeep everyone happy with streamed movies, music, and games, while Audi emphasizesfaster downloads and high-definition video streaming for up to eight devices used by passengers over the in-vehicle#Wi-fi#hotspot.
Smartphone and#car convergence#has been happening for quite some time and in-car 4g allows automakers to solve the vexing customer issue of answering demand to integrate smartphones without sacrificing safety or usability,
while simultaneously pushing a#lucrative car option#to market. Audi is offering drivers their a new and data-intensive navigation system,
which feeds the dashboard with information on#nearby gas stations, restaurants, and all sorts of Google earth overlays.
#In-car 4g hotspots#are potentially lucrative businessespecially when there s a $50 monthly fee attached.
or businesspeople who constantly travel by car. Beyond the obvious use cases of Netflix and#data-heavy navigation systems, 4G LTE service also means drivers can send#SMS#text messages by voice dictation,
While drivers and passengers might not necessarily need#high-speed Internet#in their cars it s arrived on the market
##and it s a safe bet to say we ll see it in most new cars sooner rather than later.
but there are also those who are accustomed to being able to move about in an individual manner with cars.
Many of the demonstration renderings and footage show the cars moving through what seem to be business districts,
but in more residential areas, residents might be opposed to the cars roving past their windows and disrupting their privacy.
Skytran s cars will be small and personal, designed for two people, and will be summonable with a smartphone app.
Benches can now be added to the list of things like watches, cars, phones, and everything else that comes in a smart variety.
The findings, reported in the journal Science, could lead to cheaper and greener cars, planes and electronics.
thermosets are used throughout modern cars and aircraft, often mixed with carbon fibers to form composites. Some 50%of the new Airbus a350 jet, for example, will be made from composites.
or Darpa, the government s futurist agency that worked on the predecessor to the Internet and self-driving cars.
#Electric car travels over 1, 100 miles without a recharge on a new aluminum-air battery Together the Israeli company, Phinergy,
Compare that to the best, current lithium-ion batteries in the Tesla Model S sedan.
In the case of the test car demonstrated at the#Canadian International Aluminum Conference#on Wednesday in Montreal,
To feed the chemical reaction from the aluminum-air battery drivers using a test car like this would add tap water every month
Google self-driving cars are legal and in use in several states at this point. As researchers, we are playing catch up trying to figure out the ethical and legal implications.
and that the same as Google cars as it is for military robots, we should begin now to do the research to how far can we get in ensuring the robot systems are safe
While lithium ion batteries are the dominant batteries these days for laptops, cell phones and early electric cars,
Theye also relatively expensive if you need a bunch of them to power an electric car,
which is why Tesla cars are only really attainable by the wealthy right now. An all-carbon battery A battery that uses carbon for both the anode and the cathode could be safer than a lithium ion battery
While battery fires have been rare for electric car companies, Tesla, GM and others have seen all a handful of cars with punctured batteries catch on fire,
and have faced PR hiccups as a result. Thermal runaway intense, long-lasting fires caused by lithium oxide catching on fire has long been the Achillesheel of lithium ion batteries.
if they want to scale up production to offer batteries to electric cars. Power Japan Plus intends to first launch batteries for the medical device and satellite industries,
Later down the road, they could try to tackle electric cars. An electric car with a battery pack of dual-carbon batteries could charge much faster and last much longer on the road, giving it a higher resale value.
Currently the team is supplying batteries for a Go-cart in a transportation proof-of-concept partnership.
In the immediate future, electric cars at least from dominant players Tesla and Nissan are betting on lithium ion chemistry for batteries.
But farther down the line, other types of chemistries will need to be investigated to provide power for the next generation of electric cars h
hoping to use it to beam power to buildings, cars, and dirigibles until his funding was canceled by J p morgan.
#Volvo testing self-driving cars on public roads in Sweden Volvo Car Group rive Meproject featuring 100 self-driving Volvos on public roads in everyday driving conditions is moving forward rapidly,
with the first test cars now driving around the Swedish city of Gothenburg. he test cars are now able to handle lane following, speed adaption,
Technical Specialist at Volvo Car Group. his is an important step towards our aim that the final rive Mecars will be able to drive the whole test route in highly autonomous mode.
The customers will drive the 100 cars in everyday driving conditions on approximately 50 kilometers of selected roads in and around Gothenburg.
and frequent queues. rive Me self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science
Volvo Cars will play a leading role in the world first large-scale autonomous driving pilot project in
which 100 self-driving Volvo cars will use public roads in everyday driving conditions around the Swedish city of Gothenburg.
The ground-breaking project rive Me Self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen
The aim is to pinpoint the societal benefits of autonomous driving and position Sweden and Volvo Cars as leaders in the development of future mobility e
#Electric car sales growing 100%every year Actually, electric car sales are growing a little bit more than 100%.%Every year more and more electric car models are hitting the market.
As more consumers begin to adopt the technology electric car sales continue to improve. EV sales are currently growing at a rate of more than 100 percent a year according to a recent report.
In 2010 only 25,000 electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles were sold around the world, but by the end of 2011 80,000 electric vehicles were sold.
Why are electric cars selling better than ever before? A few years ago if a car buyer wanted to buy a fully electric car,
their only option was to walk into a showroom for the Nissan leaf. But now there are several electric
electric car prices have dropped also, meaning that there are now several electric cars with price tags around $30, 000.
Will the trend continue? Signs point to yes many automakers like BMW and Kia are just starting to release electric cars,
and over the next few years there will be more electric and plug-in hybrid models to choose from than ever before.
One issue holding electric cars back is the lack of EV infrastructure, but cities all over the world are installing charging stations.
and the next generation of electric cars will have longer driving ranges and faster charging times t
#DNA computers deliver drugs inside cockroaches Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind of logic operations as a silicon-based computer have been introduced into a living animal.
which are suitable for our watches, our cars or phones, we can use these robots in life domains,
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