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#Can a city really ban cars from its streets? The German city of Hamburg has announced plans to become car-free within the next two decades.

It is an ambitious idea, but city officials obviously feel that the personal motorcar does not fulfill a function that walking,

which will allow people to navigate through the city without the use of cars. Banishing the car from urban areas is becoming a common trend in many European cities.

London imposes a ongestion chargeon private vehicles entering the city centre during peak hours. The Danish capital Copenhagen is building bicycle superhighways radiating out from the city centre.

Is the era of the personal car over? In the century since the Ford Model T was introduced in 1908,

Professor Michael Sivak, at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has published just a series of reports looking at car use,

and its negative impact on car sales, is taken into account. Sivak speculates that a number of factors could be contributing to the trend,

sian and developing market cities will not achieve the levels of car motorisation enjoyed in the West Energy problem Another way to examine the issue is to look at the number of households without a car.

In fact, the figures show that 56%of households in New york (which top the list) don have a car. think that will be surprising to most people.

In Los angeles, only 12%of households are car-less, and in affluent San jose, heart of Silicon valley, it is only 5. 8

and cars a staggering 4, 218. BTU, or British thermal unit, per person mile is a measure of energy used to move a person a mile.

while the load in cars has decreased, explains Sivak. o you are spreading the energy across fewer people in a car.

To match the emissions levels of flying, the US car fleet needs either to improve from the current 21.5 mpg on average to at least 33.8 mpg,

or carry 2. 3 people per trip instead of the current 1. 38 people says Sivak.

#How to fix a car#without a mechanic Think of a mechanic working on your car, and youl probably imagine oil, grease,

or even car enthusiast, could reasonably recognise and understand everything that made an engine run, now the proliferation of sensors, computers,

BMW vision for the way its engineers should be working on its cars is different. Instead of reaching for any of the shiny silver tools on his cart the mechanic picks up a pair of what looks like sunglasses with connected buds for his ears.

BBC Future has reported before on the future vision of cars with augmented windscreens, or even ee throughbackseats, effectively making the car seem transparent to the driver and helping visibility.

Most of those concepts won be reality until far off in the future, but car companies are jumping into the augmented reality world.

Audi has released recently a mobile phone app in Europe that can identify over 200 elements on the inside of a car.

How often have heard you people remark that older cars are easier to work on and that the engine of most modern cars mostly just looks like a slab of plastic?

Is a straight edge a part of the car, or part of the building it is parked near?

So the car of the future may come with one simple instruction DON read the manual t

Last year, a fuel cell car was due to race in the prestigious Le Mans 24-hour race in France in June

In 2008, Formula Zero a race between hydrogen-powered cars built by six competing universities tried to show that sustainable energy needn be faced po,

Can fans be convinced that environmentally friendly cars can also be fast and exciting? There are encouraging signs that this is happening.

running cars on ethanol and turning its race meets into centres for recycling everything from waste engine oil to old mobile phones.

and will see the cars competing in 10 world cities, including London, Beijing and Los angeles. The key is how effective the tech will be.

F1 cars have used hybrid tech in the form of kinetic energy recovery systems, or KERS, since the 2009 season.

This car also runs on a blend of biofuel, known as E85. In this case, the car uses a type of advanced cellulosic 85%ethanol renewable fuel from woody biomass.

This manages to avoid some of the main problems associated with biofuels; that they use land and water that would be used better for food production.

The car also has hybrid technology with regenerative brakes. When the car is slowed, energy is recovered

and stored in a battery. When an added burst of speed is needed, a paddle behind the steering wheel provides a boost using that stored energy. n racing,

where I test-driving the car. ut if you can do that, and at the same time remove yourself from the environmental debate, it a win for everybody.

In this case, the car I am driving is a simulator perhaps fortunately as I continually crash it into the barriers.

It is one of several in a large show trailer designed to be taken to events such as races and car meets,

and tested in motorsport eventually make it into the more regular cars that we drive every day,

and you increase the speed of cars, things flow quicker. But if you do so in heavy traffic you get traffic jams.

You can't drive a car unless you pass a driving test, and that's a form of coercion,

from standard ones used in today's cars to experimental designs. Injector gadget This process allows the flow of droplets of fuel to be imaged in a way that is not possible with ordinary light or lasers, for example.

Using visible light presents challenges similar to those of using car headlights in fog which consists of droplets of water suspended in the air,

Most people don't own cars, and those who do usually only drive them as a hobby,

#LA's seemingly brilliant plan half-a-century ago to re-engineer its urban environment for cars has become a global affliction.

There are now 60 million new cars being added to the planet every year, and with those vehicles come more smog,

#As we embrace the car, our cultures become more sedentary and rates of obesity and heart disease increase.

Cars not only make our cities unhealthy, they also make our cities dangerous:##270,000 pedestrians are killed by cars every year.

To undo these decades of suburban propaganda is to essentially unravel the American dream; one which has travelled

and allow cities to prioritise their people over cars. The campaign to make our cities more walkable begins in the virtual world.

Car-free neighbourhoods are already a reality in places like Vauban, Germany, where the cars are banned

and a tram to nearby Freiburg runs through the town. The Great City planned for Chengdu,

to house 80,000 people in a completely car-free centre with regional mass transit connections.

what was planned as a journey in a car becomes a possibility#on foot. Reroute. it allows you to compare your journey for several modes of transportation at once across many different factors:

so anyone can gather#information ranging from sidewalk quality to the speed of cars in 23 Asian cities.

But walking is the only option for a large percentage of the world's population that cannot afford a car,

it's estimated that 78%of the households in China will still not have a car.

the proliferation of self-driving cars like General motors'EN-V could help prevent collisions with pedestrians (and other automobiles),

and reduce the amount of urban space devoted to cars. These smart cars would act more like a fleet of shared, self-driving taxis.

On Sundays, Bogota and Medellin#close up to 80 miles (130km) of streets to cars. Cities have seen the value of turning tarmac over to walkers and bikers,

Removing people from their cars creates a sense of social connectedness and allows citizens to interact with people from different backgrounds.

Walkers have gained now literally ground in the city#as they have around the world#with the addition of plazas and other car-free zones.

Cars with GPS navigation systems can also collect detailed information about routes. And advanced systems can record details like how much the air conditioning is used

or allowing them to see stats on their car via a mobile phone app, but the information is also a goldmine for car makers.

and had to have towed the car. However, Tesla hit back by releasing a large amount of raw data from the vehicle that suggested it was driven at greater speeds,

and that the car was unplugged before it reached full charge. Now that electric cars are more abundant

"A lot of our cars are equipped with a data sharing system, #says Eric Gottfried of Nissan North america.""We find that most people drive about 30 to 35 miles a day.#

They can usually charge a car twice as rapidly as a standard wall socket at home-often much faster#and in the case of Tesla,

they are free for owners of the premium-priced cars. The fast chargers are like"drinking through a very thick straw#for batteries,

"Owners seem to adapt to the car to an extent, #claims Gottfried."They start to say

and I'll have my lunch in the car'.'They're adapting as they go to this technology,

it's possible that your next car might even reveal your hidden habits and tell you that you're not the driver you thought you were.

#From cars to Marsgurgaon seems especially well-placed to lead big data analytics in the country. Kulshreshtha says there's a global lack of talent trained in both quantitative disciplines like economics, mathematics,

they make software used for everything from designing car parts to building vehicles sent into space.

In a Gurgaon business park, a room of engineers train on computer-aided design, fashioning a tool to be used in an automobile.

#It's like adjusting the wing mirrors on a car. The actuators allow the mirrors to be tipped and tilted,

Replacing today's gas-guzzling engines with electric motors means cars will no longer produce harmful emissions.

you are greeted by several types of electric vehicles, from cars to delivery trucks, and dozens of types of chargers."

"They want to sell their cars around the world, without having to worry about different standards, different communication requirements, different billing systems.

the physical plug to connect to the car. Often to our frustration, so many of our devices like laptops and phones have different chargers for different models,

and cars are no different. There are three competing quick-charging standards for vehicles: CHADEMO, in the Nissan leaf and Mitsubishi miev;

The centre has selected a universal design that might look familiar to petrol-powered car drivers,

without worrying if their car will charge. The end goal is for the whole process to be almost invisible, according to Hardy.#

and you'll probably notice that most gridlocked cars contain only one person, despite having seating for four

which aim to have fewer cars and more people on the streets. There is a problem, according to Daniel Kim, Founder and CEO of Lit Motors:"

shrink the car. Imagine if you could cut the size of a car in half,

you could fit twice as many cars onto the streets, and into parking spaces.""We want to put less car on the road,

and more people,#he says. The solution that the San francisco-based company hopes to roll out looks like a hi-tech,

streamlined egg on two wheels. The C-1 is enclosed a fully, all-electric vehicle that is a motorcycle in all but name.

Acceleration should be respectable at 0-60mph (0-100kph) in less than 6 seconds#more than enough to beat most cars away from the lights."

"What we're doing is taking the safety and the comfort of a car, but integrating that with the romance, the efficiency,

is a genuine car replacement for many people, but it remains to be seen if that will translate into sales.

It also cuts the amount of car on the roads by halving the length rather than the width,

The market for cars is linked strongly to the price of fuel. If there is a sharp increase in gasoline prices in the future electric, efficient,

and manufacture the pods may eventually be extended to cars on major roads. Currently these pods are operational at Heathrow Airport;

Also CNG vehicles typically have 20 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline-powered cars according to the California Air Resources Board.

Founded in 1911 in Detroit Chevrolet is now one of the world largest car brands doing business in more than 140 countries and selling more than 4. 9 million cars and trucks a year.

On the other end of the cord is the coupler that plugs into the car.

stands out so much for its design it was awarded recently the Green Car Journal 2014 Green Car technology Award.

said Ron Cogan, editor and publisher of Green Car Journal and Carsofchange. com, in a statement. ver-increasing efficiency is crucial to our driving future,

yet efficiency itself is not an attraction for a great many car buyers. Cadillac Regen on Demand is inspired an example of how technology can increase efficiency

#Remote Start Functionality for its Blink Electric vehicle Charging Stations Car Charging Group, Inc. archarging, the largest owner, operator,

About Car Charging Group Inc. Car Charging Group, Inc. is a pioneer in nationwide public electric vehicle (EV) charging services,

enabling EV drivers to easily recharge at locations throughout the United states. Headquartered inmiami Beach, FL with offices in San jose, CA;

'The BMW i3 is very much a car for the future'said Franco Annunziato CEO and President of Bridgestone Europe in a statement.

the world largest new-car market. Primary UC Davis partners are the Institute of Transportation Studies and the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy.

S. ZEV Policy Lab will strengthen cooperation between California, the current leader in ZEV sales and the United Stateslargest new-car market,

and China, the global leader in new-car sales. his agreement is an important milestone in coordinating global efforts to accelerate clean vehicle commercialization,

ARB policies such as the ZEV and Advanced Clean Cars program and the groundbreaking Global warming Solutions Act (AB 32) have informed government action around the world.

and in automobiles, for making car bodies. XPRESS has shown that the time for setting up production lines can be reduced by up to 50 percent,

Brain injuries suffered in a car crash during a business trip in Dubai have left the 47-year-old unable to work.

And I was rolling inside the car somewhere, I don have any picture of that anymore,

By 2020, it is expected that up to 20%of worldwide automobile production will include electrical powertrains the machinery that powers

Considering the resource distribution of rare-earth metals, European car manufactures have to face the problem of restrictive and vulnerable supply chains for rare earth metals

and will need less cooling, leading to cheaper electromotors and therefore cars. The motor architectures and the innovative materials studied in Hi-Wi project have the potential to reach way beyond the electronic vehicle market.

Hands-free driving hits the highway Known as"road trains,"a truck driven by a specially trained driver leads a procession of cars

The following cars constantly measure the lead vehicle's location speed and direction, and immediately adjust to any changes no matter how slight."

and the freedom of a privately owned car that can leave the road train at any time.

successfully created a road train comprised of a lead truck followed by three cars travelling up to 90 km/hour entirely autonomously with a gap of no more than 6 metres.

allowing them to reduce car weights through thinner sheets. They also help conserve resources: lighter, fuel efficient vehicles mean less overall steel use and ultimately less fuel consumption (by some estimates, up to 0. 2 litres per 100 km) and carbon emissions.

milling, lathing or fashioning it into parts and tools for different uses from car panels to precision medical instruments to moving parts in a paintball gun.

and parts that go into our aircraft, cars, machine parts, says project coordinator Jan Willem Gunnink of UK-based Delcam.

People watch TV SHOWS and movies in cars too. It's the video, Li says, that will carry the company's devices forward.

"I think it's as important as the automobile was in changing the design of cities or how the printing press altered communication.""

and ordinarilyâ##like a well-tuned car engineâ##they burn fuels including fats and sugars in modest quantities to keep the cells functioning.##

##The cell is like a car and the mitochondria are the engine##Jin explains.####What we re doing inside cells is like putting the car s transmission into neutral by uncoupling it from the transmission.

Then you step on the gas so the engine runs full throttle but the car doesn t move.##

##If too much of the fuel in the cell is fat you keep burning it until the fuel gauge reaches empty.

They used the Childhood Autism Rating Scale-Second Edition (CARS-2) to help rate child behavior because of the instrument s flexible usage guidelines.

Another advantage of the CARS-2 as well as subtests of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children selected for cognitive assessment is that the behavioral observations

After returning to the United states Johnson Harrison tallied precise quantifications of the CARS-2 score

The average CARS-2 score for the autism group was 28 percent higher (at 37.75) than the average for the global delays group (at 27.15) a statistically significant difference.

In addition Tanzanian children diagnosed with autism scored in similar ranges on the CARS-2 as compared to children with autism in the United states. The autism group also had significantly more DSM-V autism symptoms than the global delays group suggesting that the assessment measures

which powers the car. The only byproduct is water unlike gasoline combustion which emits carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas.

In 2015 American consumers will finally be able to purchase fuel cell cars from Toyota and other manufacturers.

Although touted as zero emissions vehicles most of the cars will run on hydrogen made from natural gas a fossil fuel that contributes to global warming.

Novel sequences not appearing in the learned dictionary such as an erratic car or a traffic accident would be included in the summary.

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

or of cars driving by to power your smartphone. That s the concept researchers at the Georgia Institute of technology are developing using

#Car paint with graphene gets ice off radar domes Rice university rightoriginal Studyposted by Mike Williams-Rice on December 18 2013ribbons of ultrathin graphene combined with polyurethane paint meant for cars can keep ice off of sensitive military

He found the solution in a Houston auto parts store. bought some polyurethane car paint

On a car it lasts for years. So when we combined the paint and GNRS and coated our samples it had all the properties we needed. ab samples up to two square feet were assembled using a flexible polymer substrate polyimide

now that they re being produced in industrial quantities. ow we re going to the next levelhe says noting that GNR films made into transparent films might be useful for deicing car windshields a project the lab intends to pursue.

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.

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.

is a design element in everything from Android phones to car steering wheels. Because the technology is currently relatively primitive in the mass market,

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,

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,

#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.

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.

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