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.
Lit Motors, creator of the C-1 self-balancing car, recently showed off their futuristic vehicle at the 2015 Invention Awards,
and efficiency of a motorcycle with the safety and convenience of a car, creating the ultimate urban vehicle.'
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.
Firms buy Nokia's map business in bid to beat tech firms with self driving cars and navigation German carmakers BMW,
beating out high-tech rivals for location services seen as key to the future of self-driving cars.
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.
which self-driving cars linked to wireless networks can perform functions such as recalculating a route to the nearest electric charging station or around a traffic jam or accident.
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,
Self-driving and connected car services could become a $50 billion market analysts at Exane BNP PARIBAS have estimated.
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.'
'That's a big motivator for us.''The most recent collision, during the evening rush hour on July 1, is a perfect example.
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,
'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.''
It comes as the latest version of Google's self-driving car-a pod-like two-seater that needs no gas pedal
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.
Self-driving cars could also improve traffic congestion and transport the elderly and disabled. Google shocked the auto industry in 2010 with its announcement that it was working on a driverless car.
Chris Urmson, who directs Google's self-driving car project, says the slow-moving, friendly looking prototype-his young son thinks it looks like a koala because of the nose-like black laser on the front-is a good bridge between the company's current test fleet of 20 specially outfitted Lexus SUVS
and the more advanced, higher-speed driverless cars of its future, which might not even look like anything on the road today.'
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. In a 2013 survey of U s. drivers, J. D. Power found only one in five was interested in a fully autonomous car.
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
when they confront something unusual, like the time a Google SUV stopped and waited while a woman in a wheelchair chased a duck with a broom.
Google isn't alone in developing self-driving cars. Mercedes-benz Infiniti and other brands already have advanced driver assistance systems, like lane keeping and adaptive cruise control,
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,
giving people plenty of time to adapt to autonomous driving. But Urmson says that approach is'fundamentally wrong.''
''We believe that's like saying, `If I work really hard at jumping, one day
says Google's'moon shot'strategy is difficult and riskier than just adding features to existing cars.
Brin says the company is still refining its plans for self-driving cars but he's excited about their potential.'
#The smart car seat that tackles ROAD RAGE: Chair gives drivers a relaxing massage or a blast of air to focus their attention From sitting in traffic jams to speeding along monotonous motorways at night,
But keeping calm yet alert behind the wheel could be about to get easier with the advent of a car seat that actively monitors a driver's physical and mental status. The'Active Wellness'seat has built-in biometric sensors to detect
French car seat manufacturer Faurecia claims its concept seat unveiled at the IAA show in Frankfurt, is a world first.'
The seat could be fitted in new cars from 2020, but no indication of price has been given.
except the sensors are placed on the surface of the car seat instead of being attached directly to the driver.
Ford's car seat may in some cases detect increased heart activity before the driver notices they are having a heart attack,
it could be ready to be fitted in cars in 2020.0
#Scientists play Twenty Questions by reading each other's MINDS: Answers were sent more than a mile using brain signals It is a breakthrough that could pave the way for soldiers being able to read each other's thoughts on the battlefield
the american electric automotive company went beyond cars to create a battery system centered on household consumption needs. the tesla owerwallis not only described as a game changing innovation
But Perry is looking beyond handhelds to the world of connected appliances, cars and other everyday tools. or us
whether for an airplane, car, bridge, mobile device, or biological implant, engineers strive to make the material strong
ride steel subway cars over steel rails to our offices in steel-framed building. Steel screws hold together broken bones,
in automobile converters and in the chemical industry because of its remarkable ability to facilitate a wide range of chemical reactions.
Charge-discharge capacity has a lot to do with the lifetime costs of things like electric cars if you could regularly drive an all-electric car for several years without much real risk of having to replace the battery pack,
electric cars would become much more affordable over their full lifespans. Fully alternative technologies, from carbon-based batteries to supercapacitors to mini-nuclear charging,
have been predicted to kill lithium ion for many years running, at this point Ie made the prediction myself, more than once.
At about 2, 300 kilograms (5, 070 pounds), the Si2 weighs about as much as a minivan or mid-sized truck.
Massachusetts institute of technology spin out Cambridge Electronics Inc (CEI) has announced a line of Gan transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to cut energy usage in data centres, electric cars,
Another application will be replacing the silicon-based power electronics in electric car, Palacios said. These are in the battery chargers
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,
#That Self-Driving Car In Your Future Might Make You Sick Remember back when virtual reality was being touted as The next Big Thing the first time around?
suggests a similar problem could befall those riding in autonomous-driving cars. According to the study authors Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle
Authors Sivak and Schoettle suggest automakers can design self-driving cars specifically to help reduce the inherent proclivity for car sickness,
#The Ultimate Dash Cam Hits the Market Lyfelens, developers of premium and innovative auto solutions to make cars safer and smarter,
has announced the production of a dash cam that connects the car and smartphone to provide users with insight of actions happening in and around the vehicle via realtime data,
and alerting the user. e designed Lyfelens with the goal of providing car owners with peace of mind, said cofounder
and CEO Allen Stone. yfelens keeps an eye on your car even when youe not there,
and subscribers with multiple cars/Lyfelens devices will be given discounted subscription rates for more than one device e
including the increasing rate of HIV infections and car accidents. This is particularly troubling as these issues put the patient at an increased likelihood of needing a legitimate prescription for opioids to aid in the recovery from a planned procedure
such as in maintaining spacing between self-driving cars that are latoonedfollowing each other at close intervals.
It's as if every time you push on the brake pedal in your car, you burn a little bit of gas."
The three-mirrored device is the size of a small car, tipping the scales at over 3 tons (2. 7 tonnes).
Much like the posited advantages of self-driving cars, Daimler says improvements in driver safety are a compelling reason to pursue the technology in the road freight sector.
#Apple car: Visit to BMW factory fuels further rumours of possible partnership During the visit executives from the technology company asked detailed questions about tooling and production,
Rumours of a possible partnership that would see Apple using the body of BMW's'i'vehicles as the basis for an Apple Car
Apple's car project is named code'Project Titan 'but details remain a closely guarded secret.
which helps people to remember events such as where they parked a car or placed a set of keys,
said Van Essen, who is a principal investigator of the HCP. t is also a testament to the intense efforts by the HCP team to improve the methods of imaging data acquisition
a graduate student in Van Essen lab and a co-author on the study. In an interview with Nature News, Raichle cautioned that the findings of this study do not establish a cause-and-effect relationship between strong brain network connections and positive behavioral traits or between weak connections and negative traits.
and car exhausts affect humans who breathe in these harmful gases and also aggravate climate change up in the atmosphere.
and car exhausts affect humans who breathe in these harmful gases and also aggravate climate change up in the atmosphere.
"Imagine the electrons are like cars driving across a smooth track, "Yap says.""They circle around and around,
FOM workgroup leader prof. dr. Bart van Wees and his Phd student Ludo Cornelissen, both from the University of Groningen and FOM workgroup leader dr. Rembert
"Cooler cars Zhu said the technology has significant potential for any outdoor device or system that demands cooling
"Say you have a car that is bright red, "Zhu said.""You really like that color,
ranging from cell phones to laptop computers and electric cars. But there may soon be a new type of battery based on materials that are far more abundant and less costly.
Mcmaster engineers build better energy storage device Mcmaster Engineering researchers Emily Cranston and Igor Zhitomirsky are turning trees into energy storage devices capable of powering everything from a smart watch to a hybrid car.
in automobile converters and in the chemical industry because of its remarkable ability to facilitate a wide range of chemical reactions.
or cars which drive themselves and are out on our roads, "said Professor Hermann Kohlstedt and his colleague from Bochum,
which in turn has the potential to help make the driving range of an adsorbed-natural-gas (ANG) car comparable to that of a typical gasoline-powered car."
The storage issue is especially keen for light-duty vehicles such as cars, in which the space available for onboard fuel storage is limited.
#Silk could be new'green'material for next-generation batteries Lithium-ion batteries have enabled many of today electronics, from portable gadgets to electric cars.
#Researchers probe nanoscale properties and mechanisms of lubricant films The pistons in your car engine rub up against their cylinder walls thousands of times a minute;
It can also generate byproducts in the exhaust that reduce the lifespan and efficiency of a car's pollutant-reducing catalytic converter.
"The surfaces of a piston and cylinder in a car engine may look perfectly smooth to the naked eye,
These systems could allow electric cars to travel great distances between charges. Also, one day, such systems could store energy from wind and solar stations, making the intermittent energy available when needed d
Sabine van Rijt, CPC/ilbd, Helmholtz Zentrum Mnchen) Nanoparticles are extremely small particles that can be modified for a variety of uses in the medical field.
The team headed by Silke Meiners, Oliver Eickelberg and Sabine van Rijt from the Comprehensive Pneumology Center (HMGU
Yajun Gao and Professor Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht from the University of Cologne have made now substantial progress in this field in collaboration with researchers from Jilin University (China) and the University of Nottingham (UK).
Frank Koppens and ICREA Prof. at ICFO Niek van Hulst, in collaboration with scientists from the research group led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at MIT
As Prof. van Hulst states""it is amazing how graphene allows direct nonlinear detecting of ultrafast femtosecond (fs) pulses".
These points of contact between the materialsalled heterojunctionsre what make the digital on/off switch possible. magine the electrons are like cars driving across a smooth track,
low-power embedded systems-the computing devices found in everything from thermostats to automobiles.""Using our techniques,
such as running a car tyre over it, the electrical output was uniformed highly and there was no damage to the functionality of the device.
"When driving a car, the clutch mechanically carries the torque produced by the engine to the chassis of the vehicle-a coupling that has long been tested
Flame retardants are added to foams found in mattresses, sofas, car upholstery and many other consumer products.
ranging from cell phones to laptop computers and electric cars. But there may soon be a new type of battery based on materials that are far more abundant and less costly.
or cars which drive themselves and are out on our roads, "said Professor Hermann Kohlstedt and his colleague from Bochum,
ride steel subway cars over steel rails to our offices in steel-framed building. Steel screws hold together broken bones,
a dangerous atmospheric pollutant emitted from automobile tailpipes. In addition to detecting toxic or flammable gases, theoretical work indicates that boron-doped graphene could lead to improved lithium-ion batteries
ACS) Today, lithium-ion batteries are the storage technology of choice for many applications, from electric cars to smartphones.
For example, Tesla, the maker of luxury electric cars, is ambitiously expanding its lithium-ion technology to fill that niche
Chang and his colleagues studied 182 participants who were shown negative photos (bodily injuries, acts of aggression, hate groups, car wrecks, human feces) and neutral photos.
self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, health care, GOOGLE TV mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
The projects include self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, drones, health care, GOOGLE TV, mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
One of the students compared the feeling to cruise control in a car, where the driver can take control back
just like checking oil levels in a car. The dipstick is already available and can save lives,
#ipstickin the brain could predict damage just in time TO CHECK a car oil levels, use a dipstick.
the team led by Ghent Dries Van Thourhout suggests that electrical injection-a necessity for true photonic integration-could be achieved readily with the incorporation of a suitable blend of narrow-bandgap semiconductor material in the future.
Van Thourhout and colleagues made an array of distributed feedback (DFB) indium phosphide (Inp) lasers on a 300 mm diameter wafer,
Van Thourhout and colleagues outlined how these challenges could be met. he in-plane laser configuration employed makes it straightforward to adopt well-studied electrical injection schemes,
the overall power density--the amount of juice you can store in a battery vis-a-vis its size--more closely resembles the large lead-acid battery you'd find in your car.
but you can bet that electronics manufacturers, makers of electric cars, and power companies all have their eyes on the development of this technology.
when the robot valet parks your car, you don't even have to tip p
#Scientists Are Figuring Out How To Change Blood types At some point in your life, youe probably been asked to donate blood.
Also, if you click the period after mention of the self-driving car on Page's blog post,
What kind of car is this? s a blind person you don really think about the things that you might be able to see
#A better way to pack natural gas into fuel tanks A new and innovative way to store methane could speed the development of natural gas-powered cars that don require the high pressures
-and would enable an electric car with a battery that is a fifth the cost and a fifth the weight of those currently on the market to drive from London to Edinburgh on a single charge.
electric cars and grid-scale storage for solar power.""In their simplest form, batteries are made of three components:
or to remember a few hours later where you parked your car in a multi-storey car park. Schizophrenia is a long-term mental health condition that causes a range of psychological symptoms,
#Eco-friendly 3d printed supercar Kevin Czinger of Divergent Microfactories has spent most of his career in the automotive industry.
or how few tailpipe emissions the modern car has, the business of car manufacturing is destroying the environment."
"3d printing of metal radically changes that. By looking at 3d printing not for that overall structure
According to Czinger, 3d printing transforms everything by changing the way the structural components of cars are fabricated.
Currently cars are pieced together on long assembly lines inside large factories that use massive amounts of energy.
Even the most fuel efficient car has a large carbon footprint before ever leaving the plant. Czinger and his team's approach was to take the large plant out of the equation.
Balzer says designing an eco-friendly speed demon supercar as their first prototype was intentional.""We focused a lot on the aesthetics of this car
because it is very important to capture the people's imaginations, especially when we are talking about the core enabling technologies,
The core enabling technology, the ability to print out car components that can be assembled easily,
is what Kevin Czinger hopes will revolutionize car manufacturing. He says electric cars are a step in the right direction,
but alone they won't be enough to curb greenhouse emissions given the projected rise in demand for cars globally
unless the way they are manufactured changes.""By constructing a car this way it has less than one third of the environmental
and health impact than the 85 hours all electric car for example has added, "he. Czinger and Balzer are starting small
but they believe their new 3d printing method for car manufacturing will have a huge impact on how the cars of the future are built t
#New tidal energy system could help POWER UK, say developers A British company, in conjunction with Oxford university researchers, believes it has devised a way to overcome this obstacle by creating a new type of horizontal axis turbine that can be used underwater at depths of up to 30 meters, at an economical cost.
#Japanese engineer develops world's first'car in a bag'Pocket-sized personal transporters could soon be seen on the streets of Tokyo.
A Japanese engineer has developed a portable transporter small enough to be carried in a backpack that he says is the world's first'car in a bag'.
and resembles a skateboard more than a car. The slender Walkcar is made from aluminum and weighs between two and three kilograms (4. 4 to 6. 6 pounds),
Sato said his studies in electric car motor control systems sparked the idea for the new kind of ride."
since I was doing my masters in engineering specifically on electric car motor control systems, "he told Reuters. Sato says he is confident that Walkcar goes beyond bulkier devices such as the Segway or Toyota's Winglet."
and his van collided with a boat and a trailer. None of the boys was injured severely,
#Japanese engineers have created the world's first'car in a bag'Getting around is about to look a lot different.
'is described as a'car in a bag 'because it can easily carried around. It sort of like a small, four-wheeled electric skateboard meets a Segway.
#The UK is trialling a new road surface that charges your electric car as you drive One of the problems with being on the cutting edge of electric car technology is you're not as sure of being able to find a filling station as all the petrol-burning drivers around you.
that sort of'range anxiety'could be gone for good-the roads actually charge your car as you drive.
A select number of cars will be fitted with the requisite wireless charging technology and a test road will be built to show how smaller substations, AC/AC converters,
but it would certainly increase the amount of time cars could last between full charges at home or a designated charging station."
Electric car charging points won't be dismissed completely, however, and Highways England has said it's committed to installing plug-in facilities every 48 km along the motorway network.
encouraging electric cars onto the road would make a lot of financial sense for the UK government. A similar idea is already in use in South korea,
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