#In-car facial recognition system can detect road rage Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
and developing an in-car emotion detection system designed to watch out for emotions like anger and disgust.
or trigger a limiting function on the car speed to make the driver aware and maintain safe driving.
and electric cars will refuel while sitting on the driveway. Witricity have demonstrated already their ability to power laptops, cellphones,
and an electric car refueller is reportedly in the works. Hall sees a bright future for the family without wires:
I going to drive my car home and I never going to have to go to the gas station
and building a hot electric car. It also made breakthroughs in many aspects of the automotive business (the sales channel, the servicing,
the over-the-air-software updates) and now it doing the same thing for the core part of the electric car:
This week Tesla revealed more details about its plans to build a massive the largest of its kind in the world battery factory in the U s. that will produce enough lithium-ion batteries by 2020 to outfit 500,000 electric cars.
its cars are constrained by global battery production, and it would need to use all of the batteries produced for electric cars in 2013
(and then some) to make those 500,000 per year by 2020. According to Navigant Research analyst Sam Jaffe, Tesla already used half of all the batteries made for electric cars in the world in 2013 for its Model S car (22,477 cars sold.
In terms of global lithium ion and advanced battery production beyond just for electric cars Tesla so-called igafactoryis still massive;
it jaw-dropping actually. According to Navigant figures, battery factories in the world produced close to 27 gigawatt hours of advanced batteries (the vast majority of these,
The end goal for Tesla is that cheap batteries could help Tesla deliver its $35, 000 third generation electric car.
while, allowing users to perform transformations as unconsciously as they might drive a car or play an instrument.
when driving a car, cycling, eating with Chinese sticks or playing sports or instruments, he explains. n contrast,
But combining telecommunications with the Bitcoin blockchain presents more intriguing possibilities for example, cars able to read the blockchain could disable themselves
In 2012, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology 3d printed a race car and cathedral smaller than a dust mite.
and the world they live in is an extremely visual one. ill Van Eron owner of Headwaters
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The findings support IHS Automotive global forecast of nearly 12 million self-driving cars in 2035, with nearly all autos likely to be self-driving on some level by 2050.
the report said. oogle path goes through low-speed testing of self-driving cars in restricted areas beginning in 2015 and lasting three to five years,
Designer from Holland Teresa Van Donge a
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or inside the cylinder shaft of a car engine, being much more heat resistant than an electrical system.
proven techniques already widely used in the likes of smart phones, cars and airplanes. It has been estimated there are already 50 MEMS sensors in a modern car.
The MEMS market is estimated to be $14 billion in 2014, growing to over $22 billion by 2018, a CAGR of 13%per annum.
It's half-bike half-electric car Meet the Twike. It a made-in-Germany combination of an electric bicycle with an EV.
It can also do a better job than current in-car systems of predicting how much range youe got left again based on driving behavior and such factors as terrain and temperature.
The computer had to detect people, bicyclists, cars and other vehicles in a photo, and identify each object correctly.
Humanoid Robots to Flying cars: 10 Coolest DARPA Projects After the team constructed the chip, Modha halted work for a month and offered a $1,
Today's computers laptops, smartphones and even cars suffer from visual and sensory impairment, Modha said.
#BMW offers free (and fast) EV charging Thinking about buying an electric car but worried about range and places to plug in?
and range extender REX cars) but BMW Healey says the data isn there yet. he i3 has only been on the market for two
But moving kids, pizzas and even entire households with pedal power is catching on big time in the U s. Cargo bikes are he new station wagon,
Jim Motavalli on a carbo bike The author investigates a Belgian Ecopostale van at the International Transport Forum.
She making a documentary called"Less Car More Go, "and both crowdsourcing video for it and raising money through a Kickstarter campaign.
Bike with a wheelbarrow in front You can watch the trailer for"Less Car More Go"here:
Less Car More Go DHL's courier services are mounted often bike in Europe. Photo courtesy of"Less Car More Go")Cargo bikes have reached scale in Europe.
For instance, DHL Netherlands, which does parcel delivery, replaced 33 trucks with cargo bikes, saving 152 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.
Ecopostale is using bike vans to deliver the mail in Belgium (see photo above. UPS is testing pedal-power delivery vans in Germany.
According to Dr. Randy Rzewnicki, a transplanted Bostonian who now works for Europe-based Cyclelogistics, t is boom time for cargo bikes.
and"Less Car More Go"will be her first film as a director. She has modest goals of maybe being able to hire an assistant,
A 9. 5-kilowatt solar array, backed up by a 10-kilowatt-hour lithium battery and a 10-kilowatt DC car charger.
and power a Honda Fit electric car. With direct DC fast charging, the Fit can be back on the road in two hours.
or insects Kjeld van Bommel a TNO researcher told Popular Mechanics. In one example his group printed shortbread cookies made with milled mealworms.
If you put in a bike lane instead of a car lane there are data that show how it increases the health of the population.
Study co-leader Phillip van Mantgem of the Western Ecological Research center in Arcata California explains the mortality increase in financial terms:"
and if particulate filters in cars and factories become more common o
#Obama appoints first federal IT chief: Nature News The Blackberry-toting Barack Obama last week took a step towards modernizing the US government's information system by appointing Vivek Kundra to the newly created post of chief information officer.
#Ceramics surprise with durable dryness Coatings that repel water are found in myriad applications#they keep car windscreens clear in storms, for example,
Sheila van Holst Pellekaan, a geneticist at the University of New south wales, Australia, and a co-author of the earlier genome-wide study,
Van Holst Pellekaan wants to know whether people from other parts of Australia also show signs of the gene flow that Stoneking and his team found.
or run cars or mobile devices. Hydrogen has a high energy density and is completely clean, burning to leave behind only water vapour as waste.
potentially delivering hydrogen for fuel cells in mobile phones, computers or even cars. Edman Tsang, a chemist at the University of Oxford, UK, who also works on storing hydrogen in liquids including methanol2,
To produce enough power to run a car, for example, the reaction would have to yield some 24 litres of hydrogen a second;
or methanol-hydrogen systems, in cars or mobile phones are"seriously underestimating the engineering complexity of first developing a practical system
or CAR, that would target cells expressing a protein called CD19. Because CD19 is found on both healthy and cancerous B cells,
Pharmaceutical firms have tended to be wary of the CAR technique because it is technically challenging,
as well as the launch of several SMALL CAR-focused biotechnology firms. And Sadelein says that he is an investigator on a trial with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston
Cindy Van Dover, director of the Duke university Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North carolina, has worked on assessments of deep-sea mining impacts.
such as the birds learning to avoid cars. Taxidermist Johannes Erritzoe at the House of Birdresearch in Christiansfeld
#Obama to announce $2 billion plan to get US cars off gasoline An article by Scientific American.
This afternoon, President Barack Obama will ask Congress to direct our cars, trucks and buses to a realm that doesn t include gas stations.
During a visit to Argonne National Laboratory, he will call for $2-billion energy security trust fund dedicated to research to boost automobile efficiency,
#Car Glows Along with Driver's Heartbeat Today it is almost impossible to buy a car that is not connected in one form or another,
The RC-F Coupe glows according to the pulse of the driver. It a new conceptual project driven by Lexus Australia and M&c Saatchi Australia creative tech division.
Despite all the tech that is already out there, they hope to increase the connectivity between car and man.
The panels of the car connect to body sensors on the driver body. As the driver pulse quickens
which the driver is going, the coupe lights up accordingly. When hit with an electric charge, this special RF-C glows because of an electroluminescent paint.
Although Lexus doesn't plan to add this feature to any current cars, this concept is one step towards a larger goal:
create a car that perceives the emotions of the driver, which has the potential to prevent a lot of accidents.
then a future car might be smart enough to help take action. Google recently built a robot car that can drive by itself,
which has a similar objective. Naturally, trust would be a major factor if these initiatives became our reality.
Perhaps these connected cars will save lives as these companies envision it, but with hackers having the ability to take over vehicles,
#'Old-age protein'may cause memory loss The next time you forget where you left your car keys,
if a car belongs to their partner or an insurer checking a car is parked off-road as claimed.
But most of the work will involve images taken by orbiting satellites especially as recent earth observation start-ups like Planet Labs
Hydrogen fuel cells can power vehicles ranging from cars to submarines and rockets. They can also heat buildings
For the car-sized Curiosity NASA invented an ambitious system called the sky crane which combined parachutes with landing gear powered by retrorockets that could lower the rover to the surface on tethers.
Developing cybersecurity policy frameworks for autonomous vehicles like drones and self-driving cars; andhow to achieve regional and even global agreements on both privacy and security norms in online environments.
Agha-mohammadi says the system may help speed up the development of self-driving cars, package-delivering drones,
If all midsized carrier networks were to replace current radio amplifiers with Eta Devices technology he says the reduction in greenhouse gases would be equivalent to taking about 5 million cars off the road.
Another UAV maker, Cyber Technology in Australia, is using the platform for drones responding to car crashes and other disasters,
#Ride sharing could cut cabs road time by 30 percent Cellphone apps that find users car rides in real time are exploding in popularity:
The car service company Uber was recently valued at $18 billion and even as it faces legal wrangles a number of companies that provide similar services with licensed taxi cabs have sprung up.
David Mahfouda the CEO of the car-and taxi-hailing company Bandwagon whose business model is built specifically around ride sharing says that his company hired analysts to examine the same data set that Santi
but also light much as window blinds tilt to filter the sun. Researchers say the work could lead to waterproofing and anti-glare applications such as smart windows for buildings and cars.
You could coat this on your car windshield to manipulate rain or sunlight says Yangying Zhu a graduate student in MIT s Department of Mechanical engineering.
In the car you can wear varifocals but varifocals distort the geometry of the outside world
Back in December Toyota licensed Witricity technology for a future line of electric cars. Several more publicized
At present Witricity technology#charges devices#at around 6 to 12 inches with roughly 95 percent efficiency#12 watts for mobile devices and up to 6. 6 kilowatts for cars.
Courtesy of Witricity Corp. Full Screen The Witricity technology can charge an electric car with the vehicle parked about a foot above the transmitting pad.
Another application could be the exterior of automobiles, where the ability to adjust the texture of panels to minimize drag at different speeds could increase fuel efficiency,
cars for competition with giving him the experience and motivation to bring the BAT from concept to reality.
all led by MIT Troy Van Voorhis, professor of chemistry, and Marc Baldo, professor of electrical engineering.
For the past four years, Van Voorhis and Baldo have been pooling their theoretical and experimental expertise to investigate this problem.
Van Voorhis says. To support his theoretical study of electron behavior within PVS, Van Voorhis used experimental data gathered in samples specially synthesized by Baldo and Timothy Swager, MIT John D. Macarthur Professor of Chemistry.
The samples were made of four types of exciton fission molecules decorated with various sorts of pinachbulky side groups of atoms that change the molecular spacing without altering the physics or chemistry.
Van Voorhisnew first-principles formula successfully predicts the fission rate in materials with vastly different structures.
Van Voorhis says. he controversial, or xotic, mechanisms proposed more recently aren required to explain what being observed here.
Van Voorhis says. hat the reason that 50 years ago they couldn compute these things
which is already familiar from airport security checkpoints has a number of other promising applications from explosives detection to collision avoidance in cars.
and fuel consumption electric and hybrid cars and trucks struggled for years to find a solid customer base.
and charging them requires plug-in infrastructure that s still sparse in the United states. Now MIT spinout XL Hybrids is upfitting (and retrofitting) gas and diesel commercial vans and trucks with fuel-saving add-on electric powertrains
According to tests conducted by the startup the $8000 system which has been incorporated into hundreds of vans in the commercial fleets of Coca-cola
and other connecting components that attach to the powertrains of traditional General motors and Ford cargo delivery and shuttle vans as well as cutaway trucks.
could be used in medical imaging and collision-avoidance detectors for cars, and to improve the accuracy of motion tracking
#Drive-by heat mapping In 2007, Google unleashed a fleet of cars with roof-mounted cameras to provide street-level images of roads around the world.
The startup deploys cars with thermal-imaging rooftop rigs that create heat maps of thousands of homes and buildings per hour, detecting fixable leaks in uilding envelopeswindows, doors, walls,
In one night, the cars can generate more than 3 terabytes of data, which is downloaded to an onboard system and processed at the startup Boston headquarters.
the idea for thermal-imaging cars came to Sarma in 2009, when a company sent an employee to his home with a handheld thermal-imaging device
ouldn it be easier to just throw it on a car and drive by the house??
Now MIT spinout Cambridge Electronics Inc. CEI) has announced a line of Gan transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to cut energy usage in data centers, electric cars,
electric cars cheaper and more powerful, and laptop power adapters one-third the size or even small enough to fit inside the computer itself. his is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change electronics
will be replacing the silicon-based power electronics in electric cars. These are in the chargers that charge the battery,
The silicon transistors used today have constrained a power capability that limits how much power the car can handle.
Gan-based power electronics, on the other hand, could boost power output for electric cars while making them more energy-efficient and lighter and,
and greatly improve the efficiency of hybrid electric automobiles. Nanoporous carbon materials can also adsorb gas pollutants work as environmental filters
called coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS). By focusing these laser beams onto the nanodiamond, a high-resolution CARS image is generated.
Using an in-house built microscope, the research team was able to measure the intensity of the CARS light on a series of single nanodiamonds of different sizes.
The nanodiamond size was measured accurately by means of electron microscopy and other quantitative optical contrast methods developed within the researcher's lab. In this way,
they were able to quantify the relationship between the CARS light intensity and the nanoparticle size.
Consequently, the calibrated CARS signal enabled the team to analyse the size and number of nanodiamonds that had been delivered into living cells,
and aluminum (NCA) offers high enough energy density a measure of the stored electricity in the battery that it works well in large-scale and long-range vehicles including electric cars and commercial aircraft.
#Flexible paper electrodes with ultra-high loading for lithium-sulfur batteries With the rapid development of portable electronic devices, electric automobiles,
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. C. M. van Hest P. C. M. Christianen & D. A. Wilson. Polymersome magneto-valves for reversible capture and release of nanoparticles.
and has exciting potential for the car space and defense industries. Current powder metallurgy or liquid processing methods fail to achieve uniform processing says research leader Junfeng Guo who is from the A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology.
The research could be used to develop an extremely sensitive micromechanical way to measure acceleration of a car
Scaling this research up in the future may mean that you could replace the gas in your cars and generators with hydrogen greener option,
One can now think of using these films in automobile glass as an invisible deicer and even in skyscrapers Tour said.
In a newly published article in the journal ACS Advanced Materials & Interfaces, researchers Ravi Saraf and Chieu Van Nguyen describe a thin-film sensor that can detect tumors too small and deep
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a two-coherent-laser technique called"coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy,"or CARS. By using CARS in conjunction with a light amplifier made of four tiny gold nanodiscs,
Halas and Zhang were able to measure single molecules in a powerful new way. LANP has dubbed the new technique"surface-enhanced CARS,"or SECARS."
"The two-coherent-laser setup in SECARS is important because the second laser provides further amplification,
#Chemists seek state-of-the-art lithium-sulfur batteries When can we expect to drive the length of Germany in an electric car without having to top up the battery?
Whether or not the future of automotive traffic belongs to the softly purring electric car depends largely on the development of its batteries.
the lithium-sulfur battery still presents several major challenges that need to be resolved until it can be integrated into cars.
At a 90â°impact angle the nanotubes deformed along the radial direction essentially being smashed like the front of a car in a head-on collision.
New nanotech may provide power storage in electric cables clothes Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 PLAYER, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket?
or an electric car powered by energy stored in its chassis, or a home where the dry wall and siding store the electricity that runs the lights and appliances.
It doesn't make sense to develop materials to build a home, car chassis, or aerospace vehicle if you have to replace them every few years
I can see it being a little buggy at first but if this catches on and theres a market for this
what you need to make it workmy mum in-law got a fantastic white Cadillac CTS-V Sedan by working part time off of a home computer...
Pets cars and family members are all scannable Asda wrote in a blog post. Asda sends digital files of the scans to a facility where they're printed then shipped back to the Asda store.
#Massive CT SCANNER Will Glean Safety Insight From Wrecked Cars Computed tomography (CT SCANNERS are great for diagnosing problems in people but what about cars?
The Fraunhofer Development Center is using the biggest CT SCANNER it can find to analyze wrecked cars.
That sounds good but how do you fit a car in a CT SCANNER? Apparently you just get a bigger scanner.
Fraunhofer is building a giant scanner that it says can be used for cars as well as to detect damage to airplane wings
A crashed car is hoisted onto a turntable. As it turns two X-ray detectors on either side scan it
or failure of specific parts across an entire car showing which where forces were directed and how each part of a car's structure reacted.
The question is: will the giant scanners actually fit in any existing crash test labs? This article written by Stephen Edelstein was published originally on Motor Authority a publishing partner of Popular Science.
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#Sewer Sensors Detect Homemade Bombs As They're Being made Could the secret to finding illicit explosives labs before they harm anyone be hiding in a city's poop?
It does not show deaths from chronic health problems caused by drug use nor accidents (car crashes falls) nor suicides while intoxicated.
The Rani Ki Van stepwell in India took approximately two weeks to get all the detail. Still other sites are collected incidentally.
Here cars use cameras and lasers to provide detailed travel maps capturing the curve of the road and details down to a centimeter accuracy.
So if it's successful the plan's impact on carbon dioxide emissions could equate to taking every single car On earth off the road.
#For Car Buyers, The Repo Man Is Just A Click Away The problem with cars is that they move.
Now The New york times reports that some lenders are protecting their investments by making sure the cars are never really out of their control.
Thanks to GPS phone apps and ignition locking devices lenders can remotely shut down the car of someone who's behind on payments.
These devices mean lenders always know where the car is and can alert the owners
Often the shutdown of a car leads to an immediate loan payment if the borrower is capable though
These devices are distinct from previous attempts in car hacking not in function but in initiation.
Attempts to hack a car often involve gaining access to the car's controls without the driver's knowledge.
With lenders installing ignition-locking devices as a loan condition the cars are sold instead effectively pre-hacked d
#Solar Car Powers Your House When It's Parked A team of twenty students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The netherlands entered the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2013 a six-day solar race
and opened the sloping rear compartment where the car's guts--motors controller etc. --were housed in little more than a couple of glorified wooden cigar boxes leaving vast amounts of empty space between the rear wheels.
Plenty of room for groceries and no need to sneak around in the dark of night to go shopping though the car does have headlights and strips of red LED taillights.
Stella is CO2-neutral and the first energy-positive car in the world. The solar array charges while the car is in motion as well as
when it is parked. We get more energy out of the car than is needed to drive it said de Renet.
That power as much as twice what the car uses can be returned to the grid. The system uses a Wi-fi protocol for vehicles 802. 11p to see where the driver cannot.
While some of the newest cars available at dealerships today use radar and cameras to detect other cars
and objects they can't transmit around corners. Wi-fi as you probably know from using it in your house for phones laptops
and gaming systems in different rooms can. Stella s sensors picked up on the signal being transmitted by a nearby speed sign
A tall van blocked the view of a traffic light but the V2i system onboard Stella alerted the driver to the red light before anyone in the car could see it.
As of July Stella has a permanent license plate and permission to drive on public roads s
How To Test A Self-Driving Car In May 2012 Google's self-driving car underwent a classic American teenage ritual.
The car passed but apparently not without a little lobbying from its parent. As state officials have monitored the robot car's mileage on public roads Google has lobbied for the car to get different tests
and to report different accident figures than the DMV wants a new series of reports finds.
Harris'work offers a detailed sense of the car's abilities. It's also a look at Google's lobbying the extent
You can see excerpts there of the car's 2012 Nevada driving test with notes and checkmarks just like you might have gotten as a nervous 16-year-old.
That's where you can see what situations the Google car is good at and in
For Quartz Harris reported on Google's lobbying not to have to report#how often its cars turn over the controls to their human drivers
The car is designed to routinely cede control when it encounters situations it can't handle.
when its cars get into accidents while a human not its algorithms is driving. The California DMV disagreed.
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