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.
What's more, it uses gyro stabilisation to stay balanced, so unlike a motorcycle, it will never fall over.
Lit Motors, creator of the C-1 self-balancing car, recently showed off their futuristic vehicle at the 2015 Invention Awards,
'Our vehicle is the future of transportation, 'said founder of Lit Motors, Danny Kim, in a statement.'
and efficiency of a motorcycle with the safety and convenience of a car, creating the ultimate urban vehicle.'
our gyro system exerts 1300 ft-lbs of torque to control the tilt and lean of the vehicle.'
This effect is achieved by using spinning gyros embedded in the vehicle beneath the seat. A spinning disk-also known as a gyro-can keep its balance where a stationary disk would fall flat, just like a bicycle wheel.
It also allows the driver to squeeze into parking spaces normally reserved for motorcycles. Kim hopes the product will hit the market within two years and cost from $24, 000 (£15, 000) 0
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.
would work together to propel the vehicle at speeds of 3, 425mph (5, 500km/h). Two turbo jets would allow the aircraft to climb vertically at take off,
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.
One of our Lexus vehicles was driving autonomously towards an intersection in Mountain view, CA.'The light was green,
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,
and the vehicle behind us had plenty of stopping distance but it never decelerated.''This certainly seems like the driver was distracted
'Thankfully, everyone in both vehicles was okay, except for a bit of minor whiplash, and a few scrapes on our bumper.'
'The other vehicle wasn't so lucky; its entire front bumper fell off.''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.''
''The clear theme is human error and inattention,'said Urmson. It comes as the latest version of Google's self-driving car-a pod-like two-seater that needs no gas pedal
or steering wheel-has made its debut on the roads around Mountain view. This prototype is the first vehicle built from scratch for the purpose of self-driving,
Google says. The technology giant's mission is to have driverless cars available to consumers in the next five years.'
'These prototype vehicles are designed from the ground up to be fully self-driving, 'Google said.''They're ultimately designed to work without a steering wheel or pedals,
and they'll drive using the same software that our existing Lexus vehicles usehe same fleet that has driven self over 1 million miles
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.
'We want to partner to bring self-driving to all the vehicles in the world, 'Brin told a group of journalists
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.'
'This vehicle is really all about us learning.''This vehicle could go on a freeway, but when we think about introducing the technology,
we want to do that very thoughtfully and very safely, 'Urmson says. Convincing drivers that driverless technology is safe is one of the hurdles the company must overcome.
and notes that Google's vehicles have completed more than 1. 7 million miles of testing. 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
I'll just be able to fly, ''he said. Egil Juliussen, the principal analyst of infotainment and advanced driver assist systems for the consulting firm IHS Automotive,
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 invention could pave the way for the development of'flying submarines'-vehicles that can seamlessly travel through air and water
The birds are one of nature's most adept hybrid vehicles and use similar flapping motions to the robots to propel themselves through air as well as water.'
'What is really exciting about this research is that our analysis of flapping-wing locomotion is limited not to insect-scaled vehicles,
because oxygen needed for engine combustion would be taken from air passing through a vehicle, instead of from a tank on board,
would work together to propel the vehicle at speeds of 3, 425mph (5, 500km/h). Two turbo jets would allow the aircraft to climb vertically at take off,
the number of an approaching bus and any empty seats on it. The system, being tested by 1,
Motorcycle headgear absorbs energy from a crash to protect your brain as well as your skull Experts have created a helmet with built-in suspension to protect your brain as well as your skull.
While most ordinary motorcycle and cycle helmets attempt to protect the skull from damage, the brain is still susceptible to injuries from impacts.
This means it could be used to improve safety for motorcyclists and traditional cyclists. An array of 27 dampers work in unison to isolate impact energy from the brain.
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
Long island Compost also plans to convert the biogas to renewable natural gas that will be used to fuel its trucks on-site, reducing diesel consumption by 200,000 gallons annually.
This will enable the gas to be used to fuel compressed natural gas vehicles in other areas. The project is part of the Cleaner, Greener Communities program, a statewide initiative encouraging communities to incorporate sustainability goals and principles into local plans and projects.
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,
and trucks mostly built of steel. While various grades of steel have been developed over the past 50 years,
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.
The last few days have seen new transfers of Russian tanks, armoured vehicles, heavy artillery and rocket equipment over the border to the separatists,
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.
This is one of the main reasons why there are few large electric vehicles the researchers said. Gan-based power electronics, on the other hand, could boost power output for electric cars,
while making them more energy-efficient and lighter and, therefore, cheaper and capable of driving longer distances v
#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
and a lack of control over the direction of motion tend to be elevated in self-driving vehicles.
Authors Sivak and Schoettle suggest automakers can design self-driving cars specifically to help reduce the inherent proclivity for car sickness,
while the vehicle is in motion, which is said to help minimize motion sickness. Whichever automaker becomes the first to market a fully autonomous vehicle might take heed to place one important item on the standard equipment list a barf bag
The system won protect people, vehicles or buildings from direct hits by bombs, guns or shrapnel,
It also doesn cover an entire vehicle or area like an overturned cereal bowl, it just gets pointed in one direction.
It could cut down on delivery trucks, for instance, and change our expectations and interactions with companies. But the most exciting and important application of drone delivery would be in health care.
#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,
live video feeds and push notifications. Lyfelens uses dual-facing, wide-angle cameras to capture crisp 1080p resolution footage that allows for maximum visibility inside
and outside a user vehicle to easily track and monitor a number of incidents. Lyfelens monitors trigger eventsxcessive speed, abrupt movements such as hard braking or collisions
Motion and sound detection sensors also monitor a user vehicle for unsafe or suspicious activity,
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,
Outside of the vehicle, Lyfelens users can access real-time data, footage and push notifications by participation in a monthly subscription plan.
In addition to monitoring for incidents in and around the vehicle, Lyfelens features built-in GPS that provide access to the speed and location of the vehicle, mileage tracking and historical trip data,
when the user is in the vehicle, but the user will not have instant push notifications of vehicle activity,
the WIFI hotspot or automatic cloud storage of video/images (these would then only be stored on the device memory for the user to extract later).
and subscribers with multiple cars/Lyfelens devices will be given discounted subscription rates for more than one device e
and convoy vehicles from enemy radar r
#Facebook's first satellite will beam Internet to rural Africa starting in 2016 With the exception of a select few locations,
When deploying a AUVS (autonomous underwater vehicles), much of engineer time is spent writing scripts or low-level commands in order to direct a robot to carry out a plan of mission.
Principal developer Brian Williams stated that hese vehicles might arrange their own missions, and adapt, execute,
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.
with the company since revealing the vehicle cleared for use had already become obsolete. Things are now back on track with the FAA giving Amazon the green light to put its current models to the test.
Starting out as a food truck, it went on to become an app, and on Tuesday it became a published"author."
It's as if every time you push on the brake pedal in your car, you burn a little bit of gas."
We have seen the development of a similar vehicle intended to deliver tpa, which involved loading the drug into nanoparticles to improve the speed at
The three-mirrored device is the size of a small car, tipping the scales at over 3 tons (2. 7 tonnes).
The versatile technology will allow the crew of an armored vehicle to see through the metal confines of their war machine,
allowing for unprecedented levels of combat awareness for the crews of combat vehicles. Maintaining a high level of situational awareness from the confines of a tank can't be an easy task.
uses a touchscreen and helmet-mounted interface to visualize data collected from a host of sensors on the hull of the vehicle,
and allow for the plotting of efficient vehicle and UAV routes. BAE states that the system will be highly versatile and adaptable to a wide range of military assets.
A demo unit has been installed on a CV90 tracked vehicle, for display at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London this week
#Self-driving truck hits the highway in world first Daimler Trucks'has shifted gears in its ongoing effort to develop autonomous vehicles.
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.
Daimler's Highway Pilot system first debuted on the open road last year aboard the Mercedes-benz Future Truck 2025 a concept vehicle intended to demonstrate what a future of autonomous trucking might look like.
Then earlier this year another of the company's concept vehicles, the Freightliner Inspiration, received official licensing to roam the public highways in the state of Nevada.
and tested in something other than a concept vehicle for the first time. Onboard the modified Mercedes-benz Actros was Daimler executive Dr Wolfgang Bernhard and Winfried Kretschmann, Minister-President of the state of Baden-Württemberg,
The system uses a short-range radar that assess the vehicle's surroundings up to 230 ft (70 m) away in a forward-facing 130-degree arc,
and if they don't respond in time the truck is brought to a stop. To conduct this demonstration
allowing the truck to be driven semi-autonomously on highways at speeds of up to 80 km h (50 mph).
While widespread adoption of autonomous trucks still appears some way off, the opportunity to test out the technology in real-world scenarios will help speed up the process."
he said. ecause they have a DC bus in their genset, you could connect PV arrays and batteries on the DC bus. That, in turn,
ould allow you to eliminate all those inverters, and just use the inverter that comes with the Innovus generator,
Hoffman noted that this capability to link multiple DC generation sources into a single Innovus DC bus could lend an additional level of simplification to microgrid operators seeking the flexibility to grow with the times.
Florio proposal calls for policies that allow rooftop solar energy storage, plug-in vehicles energy efficiency, demand response,
#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,
Although there are no plans at present for jointly developing a passenger vehicle, according to BMW, one of the sources quoted by Reuters said exploratory talks between senior managers may be revived at a later stage.
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,
a pollutant gas commonly found in vehicle exhaust that also results from fossil fuel combustion. Prolonged exposure to nitrogen dioxide can be dangerous to human health,
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.
a system developed by Boeing to be mounted on top of U s army vehicles. Both weapons forgo conventional bullets for"directed energy"a focused beam of energy that heats up
The first prototype of the Compact Laser weapons System is 40 percent lighter than the vehicle-mounted HEL MD system,
it's fixed to the top of a vehicle, so it can only go where the vehicle goes.
In the recent test in California, the smaller laser shot down a drone, but Boeing's goal is to develop a compact laser that can also shoot down incoming explosives, such as mortars,
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