beating out high-tech rivals for location services seen as key to the future of self-driving cars.
which invented the motor car in 1886. But it is unclear how other HERE customers,
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.
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
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
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.''
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 seat could be fitted in new cars from 2020, but no indication of price has been given.
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.
The silicon transistors used today have constrained a power capability that limits how much power the car can handle.
#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."
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,
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,
"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,
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.
It can also generate byproducts in the exhaust that reduce the lifespan and efficiency of a car's pollutant-reducing catalytic converter.
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.
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
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 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.
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
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,
the business of car manufacturing is destroying the environment.""3d printing of metal radically changes that.
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.
"We focused a lot on the aesthetics of this car because it is very important to capture the people's imaginations,
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
"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,
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
#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),
#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.
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."
and cars in just a few years, say the researchers. lectrochemical splitting of water could provide a cheap,
his research may help computers get better at teaching themselves to do everything from driving a car to making an omelette,
Or cars made from the material. Because, let's face it, plastic is great and all but we could all use a little more durability in our lives v
which is expected to extract 1 million tonnes per day-the equivalent of taking 100 cars off the road every year.
crucial if we're to put these batteries into millions of cars and smartphones, was reached by using a'fluffy'carbon electrode made from graphene.
#Researchers find protein that may signal more aggressive prostate cancers Biomarkers in the body are analogous to the warning lights in cars that signal something might need repairing.
#Scientists create cheaper magnetic material for cars, wind turbines Karl A. Gschneidner and fellow scientists at the U s. Department of energy's Ames Laboratory have created a new magnetic alloy that is an alternative to traditional rare-earth permanent magnets.
enable collision avoidance technologies on cars and allow virtual reality (VR) headsets to be used outdoors. The researchers'new centimeter-accurate GPS coupled with a smartphone camera could be used to quickly build a globally referenced 3-D map of one's surroundings that would greatly expand the radius of a VR game.
"Humphreys and his team in the Radionavigation Lab have built a low-cost system that reduces location errors from the size of a large car to the size of a nickel--a more than 100 times increase in accuracy.
"If your car knows in real time the precise position and velocity of an approaching car that is blocked from view by other traffic,
your car can plan ahead to avoid a collision, "Humphreys said. Further information: http://gpsworld. com/accuracy-in-the-palm-of-your-hand d
#'Microcombing'creates stronger, more conductive carbon nanotube films"It's a simple process and can create a lightweight CNT film,
such as in maintaining spacing between self-driving cars that are platooned"-following each other at close intervals.
Few people would look at a car, an airplane or a farming tool and appreciate the durable layers protecting its parts.
"This includes automobiles, with parts that bear the burden of heavy loads, erosion and corrosion.
"Just like you have a car that you're running into the ground--things don't work right
or run our cars without adding any greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California,
or run our cars without adding any greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California,
"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,
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.
where sensors in cars, located in devices like flow meters, position sensors and interlocks, are made currently of silicon or indium antimonide.
For instance, when there is a change in temperature due to the car's air-conditioner or heat from the sun,
properties of the conventional sensors in the car change as well. To counter this, a temperature correction mechanism is required, incurring additional production cost.
Fraunhofer ICT It self-evident that cars must become lighter in order to reduce fuel consumption. For most car designers this principally means body parts
but the powertrain system, which includes the engine, also accounts for a large proportion of the vehicle weight.
cigarette smoke and car fumes and airways twitchiness in allergic asthma. ur paper shows how these triggers release chemicals that activate Casr in airway tissue
have been refining cell-surface sensors known as chimeric antigen receptors, or CARS. Once inserted into T cells,
CARS prompt these cells to home in on particular proteins found primarily in tumors, where they launch a series of cancer-killing immune responses.
Dangers of CAR T cell Therapy CAR-equipped T cells have proven to be remarkably successful in the treatment of various forms of chemotherapy-resistant leukemia
But CAR T cell therapy can cause side effects so serious that they may require monitoring in an Intensive care unit several patients have died after receiving CAR T cells
while theye in the body. ome scientists have grappled with these problems by developing uicide switchesthat kill off CAR T cells
creating a new type of CAR T cell that is ffby default. Like CONVENTIONAL CAR T cells, these newly developed T cells will navigate toward
This controller drug forms a chemical bridge between components inside the CAR T cells flipping the cells into an active, nstatus.
and selectively eliminated by the Lim group new CAR T cells, but only after the controller drug had been administered.
and colleagues does more than merely switch CAR T cells between nand ffstates. It can also act like a rheostat:
These combined control capabilities could be employed to manage the various side effects of CAR T therapy.
For CAR T cell treatments, T cells are removed from a patient blood, genetically engineered to carry CARS that target the patient tumor,
then reinserted into the bloodstream to exert their effects. Once inside the body, in addition to attacking tumors directly, CAR T cells, like all T cells, release signaling molecules called cytokines, some
of which recruit additional T cells to fight the tumor. Sometimes normal cells express small amounts of a cancer-associated protein targeted by a CAR T cell.
Because CAR T cells placed in the bloodstream pass immediately through the heart and lungs, these tissues can be damaged before the CAR T cells reach their intended target elsewhere in the body.
The control offered by the Lim laboratory new cells would allow physicians to leave CAR T cells inactivated until the heart
and lungs are less vulnerable to these irst passside effects. Even when CAR T cells attack only their correct target cancer cells,
side effects can still occur. In tumor lysis syndrome, the body is overwhelmed by toxic substances released when many tumor cells die in rapid succession.
Another side effect, known as a ytokine storm is a life-threatening vicious cycle in which released cytokines summon numerous T cells to the tumor,
but he believes that the research provides the foundation for practical remote control of CAR T cells on the near horizon.
In addition to drug control of CAR T nswitches, members of his laboratory are exploring other techniques to accomplish this goal,
such as controlling CAR T cell activation with light. While successful against blood cancers such as leukemia, CAR T cells have shown so far less efficacy against solid tumors that effect the colon, breast, prostrate, brain and other tissues.
The remote control strategy developed by Lim group may permit researchers to develop more powerful versions of CAR T cells that could attack these solid tumors,
while still keeping side effects in check. Members of the Lim laboratory are also working to reduce side effects by introducing multiple CARS into T cells
so that the cells will respond to multiple characteristics that are distinctive to an individual patient tumor,
and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. hat we can engineer CAR T cells to have slightly different,
For all the self-driving cars, AI breakthroughs, and Internet balloons, ads on Web pages and inside apps provide over 90 percent of their company revenue.
the research lab Google X, where oonshotprojects include self-driving cars and delivering Wireless internet via stratospheric balloons;
But the message seems to be that ideas like self-driving cars and defeating aging could become as successful and influential as Google online services are today.
such as the self-driving car, are about as distinct and mature as other Alphabet subsidiaries named today, for example.
The first successful heart transplant, in 1967, was carried out in South africa from a 25-year-old car accident victim
Donors at the Papworth hospital have included victims of car accidents and failed suicide attempts by hanging.
Devices with Kumu technology mounted on top of cars played the role of cell phones linking to the network.
or blocked by buildings, cars, or people from making a direct line-of-site connection with the tower.
when a car went by. Kumu first product will be aimed at wireless carriers and is a version of the small mobile base stations, known as small cells,
Mahaffey was quick to point out that this hack required"initial physical access to the car."
While the researcher commends Tesla for how well it separated its massive infotainment system from the rest of the car's controls at a top level,
Mahaffey and his partner in crime (for good) were able to perform any action possible from the car's touchscreen or Tesla's accompanying smartphone app.
On one occasion, the security guru successfully turned the car off while it was driving."
"At low speeds, the car applies the parking brake and it immediately comes to a stop,
"At speeds above about 5 miles per hour, the Model S gracefully shuts off its engineust like shifting a gasoline car into neutralhile still providing the driver full control over steering
and brakes so they can safely bring the car to a stop.""Good to know!
especially when cars are only to become more connected? For starters, Mahaffey tells auto makers to start putting their cars'critical systems into closed networks that are isolated from the infotainment systems or information clusters.
This is the third reported hack on connected cars in the last two weeks alone. First, security experts assumed direct, remote control of a new Jeep cherokee,
Short after, another white hat hacker revealed a flaw in Onstar's connected system that left any General motors car equipped with the service wide open to remote door unlocks and ignition starts.
In short, for who knows how long, any Onstar-equipped GM car could be jacked hands Free of course,
#Graphene's thermoelectric properties to help cars recover lost thermal energy Charging bateries or running air conditioning could be assisted by energy from fuel normally wasted as heat emissions One of the less well-known properties of graphene could enable the carbonaceous wonder-material to help combustion engine vehicles to make better use of the energy from their fuel by converting waste heat into electricity
It is all part of the promise of connected and self-driving cars, which allow data about individual journeys,
Autonomous intersection management Once computers are in full control of our cars, do need we even traffic lights at intersections?
Rather than stop at red lights, self-driving cars would schedule a slot through an intersection in real-time,
speeding up or slowing down to ensure theye in the right place at the right time and not smashing into another car.
people will also get used to the idea of cars going through the intersections. That said, he stressed that driving is now
and our system will allow the cars to make a much more constant speed, he says,
even with all the cars going through without stopping, it going to be a lot safer than it is today. re we there yet?
Computers aren driving our cars yet and won be for some time, but there are some connected car projects that already claim to be easing the flow of traffic.
As cars become more connected whether it through satnav or simply the smartphones in our pockets better data in means we get better data out on the road.
not only GPS from cars and timings from traffic lights, but also air quality sensor data and images from cameras. n its own, each is of low value,
or send a text message to a car, or alert satnavs in the car to quietly change the routing
so theye now going somewhere else. It may seem like a small change, but consider the shift that happened in digital signs.
One way self-driving vehicles may be introduced is latooning with a lead car in control of a train or group of followers, handy for giving lorry drivers a break.
There are reasons to give some cars priority, and that being trialled by Newcastle. There, traffic lights are alkingto motorists,
sending messages to a device in car about obstacles or delays ahead, as well as helping them adjust their speeds to hit lights
roads aren used only by cars. What about the bicycles, scooters and pedestrians hoping to cross the street?
but by sending messages to drivers in cars, giving them useful information to react to
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