#Lexus builds car with human HEARTBEAT in connection between driver and vehicle Lexus has built a car that pulsates with light in time with the driver's heartbeat in order to display the connection between the driver and the car.
Using electroluminescent paint, Lexus have converted an RC F coupe into a on-off model they are calling the'heartbeat car'.
'Unfortunately for petrol heads, the special project is a onetime collaboration, and won't go on general sale.
and Lexus Australia, was to connect the human body to the car. Pictured, the side panels light up The model uses biometric technology to visualise the physical and emotional connection shared by man and machine when at the wheel.
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to talking about what the car does to you emotionally,'Ben Cooper, innovation director at M&c Saatchi, told Mashable Australia.
Lexus unveil the world's first ever car with a heartbeat LEXUS RC F SPECS Unfortunately for petrol heads,
the'hearbeat car'special project is a onetime collaboration, and won't go on general sale. Here are the specs of the Lexus RC F
'From there, we looked at how we were going to take the heartbeat and express it throughout the car.'
'A wireless heartbeat monitor sends the driver's heartbeat to a control board in the rear of the car.
and uses it to trigger the electroluminescent paint to display the heartbeat in a pulsating pattern on the car's side panels.
Pictured, the car on the test track The electroluminescent paint contains phosphorescent substances that emit light
When the car is parked in the day time and the system is shut down, the car has a standard silver finish,
with its secret heart pulsing potential hidden from sight. The system is powered by a 13v battery
moves their hands in the air or moves their eyes in a car heads up display or under a VR hood,
as distance sensors in cars. Another application is the measurement of dust particles and trace gases in environmental monitoring.
as distance sensors in cars. Another application is the measurement of dust particles and trace gases in environmental monitoring.
But arguably the biggest market opportunity will be in the provision v of online services that support the Iot devices in the car.
Existing automotive technologies and business models that have worked for the car industry for a century are not so well suited to a changing car market with autonomous vehicles and Iot-connected cars.
Putting electronics management systems in cars was only the beginning. Connecting vehicles to the internet will add a far greater level of complexity to the automotive business model.
he says. ou have to drive a car, vacuum the floor or take the garbage out.
Leiden University student Florijn dreamed of alleablecar bumpers at that time. magine a car bumper that you can program for instance
and drive a miniature car as the water evaporates please see the video on this page.
Your car uses GPS map data to tell the headlamps when to swivel. If GPS isn available,
If the car has built-in GPS, Ford says, the car will use the map data to see
when the car is about to go around a curve. It then swivels the headlamps to the right
or left to lead the driver into the curve. Ford since 2007 has had an Adaptive Front Lighting System
and Traffic Sign Recognition that turned the car headlamps up to 15 degrees as the driver turned the wheel to steer into the curve.
The two most serious threats are illuminated inside the car on an LCD display. This is Ford take on infrared night vision systems that now employ algorithms to detect people and animals,
then mask or move the elements that would shine at oncoming cars. That would give you a mostly high-beam view of the road.
but that the address entry process takes more time with far costlier car navigation c
but weighs less than a car and can stay in the air for months at a time. Facebook has announced also
but weighs less than a car and can stay in the air for months at a time. Facebook has announced also
but weighs less than a car and can stay in the air for months at a time. Facebook has announced also
but weighs less than a car and can stay in the air for months at a time. Facebook has announced also
and car surfaces would be a ar bigger market Other markets could open, however, as prices are driven down. utomotive is potentially important,
Professor Wass explains. arbon fiber composites have been used widely in Formula one and performance cars for many years,
a bit like a car at a stoplight. t is very important to regulate that balance of excitation
Delcourt says he could see it being used in consumer cars on a large scale"very soon.""
#Remote-control Range rover can be driven with a smartphone app High end cars are creeping towards full autonomy,
Jaguar land rover has demonstrated a very nifty remote control app that lets you get out of your car, stand beside it
The prototype smartphone app lets you start the car and control the brakes, throttle and steering, as well as gearshifts.
The car will go a maximum 4 mph (6 km h) in remote pilot mode, but it'll stop
if the smartphone or the car key get more than 10 meters (33 ft) from the vehicle.
whether the car's collision avoidance sensors will stop you from running it into a pole.
The car uses its ultrasonic sensors to look for hazards in the environment and then autonomously executes an about-turn in as many steps as is necessary, from a simple 3-point turn towell, presumably to one of these.
or others involve complicated, unpredictable moves, like dismantling a car, that are well beyond even the most advanced robots.
The bikes were envisioned as key components of a multimodal transportation ecosystem that would also incorporate cars and public transit.
when cars approach from behind, both via the handlebars and the accompanying Mode: Link app. It also HAS LED the latest headlight
so next time you drive along that same road the car will know how to best light the way.
The car's camera system is also able to directly spotlight hazards with two special LED lamps positioned next to the fog lights.
depending on how close they are to the car. This spotlighting tech uses an infrared camera mounted in the grille that detects the body heat of up to eight people or large animals at a range of 120 meters (394 feet.
and used by cars to cross the Hongo River in Fukuyama City. Ario and his team are continuing to develop the technology
tires are one of the most important parts of a car. Unfortunately, there's no one size fits all,
and bring business to those communities from EV owners who make the stop to charge their cars.
or small groups to drop them off at precisely their destination. t a self-driving car,
Proponents of PRT believe that such systems can provide the personal convenience of cars with the dedicated infrastructure of mass transit,
or small groups to drop them off at precisely their destination. t a self-driving car,
Proponents of PRT believe that such systems can provide the personal convenience of cars with the dedicated infrastructure of mass transit,
super slick electronic super car that can drive itself. The R8 e-tron has been designed to showcase technology for Audi future,
and systems that allow it to drive like a high-performance car despite only being powered by batteries.
which uses the data to create a comprehensive image of the environment around the car.
The car can then use that information to drive itself. That helps the car use the battery even more efficiently than it already does.
The company says that it can build the car o meet special customer requests But its main job is as a igh-tech mobile laboratory it says trying out technologies that will eventually make it to production vehicles u
#Self-healing technology one step closer after scientists produce aircraft wings which fix themselves Their research,
and the technology used in cars to alert drivers when theye close to reversing into something.
Japanese and US automakers are aiming to commercialise self-driving cars by around 2020, with global behemoths including Daimler and Google in play.
Automatic lets you harness the computing power of your car for the sake of fuel efficiency.
Once plugged in, Automatic connects the car's computer system to your smartphone, relaying data about all of your car's subsystems from the gas tank to the engine.
With this data at the ready, the device can tell you when there's something wrong with your car before it becomes a major issue,
a company spokesperson told Live Science. It's like preventative health for your car, she said,
letting you diagnose a problem before it starts eating away at your fuel efficiency or increasing your emissions.
when there's something wrong with your car, Automatic also notifies you when there's something wrong with your driving.
which could run LED LIGHTS and even drive a miniature car! Sahin informed that his system could be hundreds times cheaper to build per unit area than solar tapping,
and a miniature toy"car"that seemingly moves with miraculous efficiency. You may have to see these inventions in action to get the full grasp of just how innovative they are.
#Why hydrogen fuel cell cars are taking off The news hasn't been great for electric vehicle and hybrid sales lately.
suddenly wee seeing a whole lot of action from hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars. This is a zero emission technology that been under the radar,
but is exploding in 2015, with available-now or soon-arriving cars from Toyota, Honda,
Mercedes-benz and Hyundai. Think of a fuel-cell car as an exhaust-free electric car with a little chemical factory producing the electrons in place of a battery.
The other advantage over battery cars is that refueling is just like getting gas, and takes only about five minutes.
market car was possible. Wee there now. Hyundai was the first out of the gate with the Tucson fuel-cell car last spring.
Initially it available only in southern California because that where the stations are. The big challenge for hydrogen is the infrastructurehe stations cost $1 million or more
Toyota just announced some stellar numbers for the car a range of 312 miles on a hydrogen fill
Toyota is preparing a big push on fuel-cell cars. ust as the Prius introduced hybrid-electric vehicles to millions of customers nearly 20 years ago,
previously mostly quiet on fuel cells though it showed an early interest in hydrogen with 7-Series cars that burned the stuff.
BMW said this week it will test a Toyota-enhanced fuel-cell car on public roads in July.
but one executive said the automaker would field what could turn out to be an SUV-or crossover-based car in 2017.
It plans to have the production version of that car on American roads next year.
or as a hyper-efficient seat warmer in a car. Although only flat mesh connected into a tube has been made so far,
or combusted in fuel cells-in cars for example-to drive engines. Solar fuel cell To connect an existing silicon solar cell to a battery that splits the water may well be an efficient solution now
like RFID tags that currently transmit identifying info on everything from cattle to car parts,
and they contain laser technology (developed by the University of Hertfordshire) to detect particulates from cars and lorries.
carried in cars and on buses, and static devices were attached to lampposts and stationed at roadsides and at critical pollutant sites.
or a car that never needs a new coat of paint. A study done at The University of Akron may be able to make this a reality in the near future.
This is a significantly challenging step-it assumes that all the cars on the road become electric, and that homes and industry convert to fully electrified heating and cooling systems.
such as when overtaking another car, with the battery providing the steady power for highway driving. upercapacitors perform a similar function to batteries
#Nanogenerator harvests power from rolling tires A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and a collaborator from China have developed a nanogenerator that harvests energy from a car's rolling tire friction.
During initial trials, Wang and his colleagues used a toy car with LED LIGHTS to demonstrate the concept.
They attached an electrode to the wheels of the car, and as it rolled across the ground,
"The researchers also determined that the amount of energy harnessed is directly related to the weight of a car,
and, like fats and oils, can be converted through hydrogenation into diesel fuel for cars or kerosene for planes.
which is familiar from passing cars. Their sound has a higher pitch when they are approaching than
With its road safety research, The british firm is joining a number of other car makers that have been researching the measurement of brainwaves to monitor driver concentration in the car.
if a car could effectively read the brainwaves that indicate a driver is beginning to daydream,
added Dr Epple. f Mind Sense does not detect a surge in brain activity following the car displaying a warning icon or sound,
has been adapted for in-car use and detects vibrations from the driver heart beat and breathing. s we develop more autonomous driving technologies,
added Dr Epple. o do this safely the car will need to know if the driver is alert
So our research team is looking at the potential for a range of driver monitoring technologies to give the car enough information to support this decision.
If the car detects severe health issues, or simply how alert the driver is, then the car could take steps to ensure the driver is focussed enough on the driving task to take over. onitoring the physical health of the driver could
not only detect the onset of sudden and serious illness that may incapacitate the driver, but also allow the car to monitor driver stress levels.
This would then allow the car to help reduce stress, for example by changing mood lighting, audio settings and climate control.
JLR also has a redictive Infotainment Screenprototype that uses cameras embedded in the car to track the driver hand movements
and this enables the system to predict which button the driver intends to press. This allows successful button selection to take place in mid-air,
Alternatively, if you were crawling along in traffic a timely warning through the accelerator could prevent you bumping into the car in front a
and drive the car through an electroencephalography (EEG) headset manufactured by Emotiv. The BMW was fitted with a mechanical rig capable of pressing the pedals and turning the steering wheel on command
while being trained to remotely drive the car. The driverstraining involved thinking left, right, and about going forward and stopping.
This includes statistics fed back by a telematics box in the car reporting on how safely
which is different from the Google (x) lab that develops big-vision innovations such as self-driving cars. e are enabling interactive textiles,
or drive in a car while doing the Wi-fi only plan because the signals just don't carry far enough to cover you over long distances.
You can see the snowy runway you can see the trees you can even see a car pulling into the airport parking lot.
a French company that specializes in 3-D software to help engineers who design cars
Unlike simulations involving manmade objects such as cars and planes, it's very difficult to predict how the human heart will respond to stress in the real world.
as Simon Karger of Cambridge Consultants told Reuters. This initial version of the Chimaera is essentially a oncept car,
If you so choose to wear the onesie in the car for one hour, you will have cleaned successfully the polluted air.
has collaborated with Tesla in an experiment to charge cars through the power of the footstep.
or give enough energy to even move the car by an inch, foot traffic on London busy Oxford street can generate enough energy in a day to drive an electric car 953 miles. he system works,
and they say their pilot plant in Dresden will pump out 160 litres of the of the stuff every day in the coming months to power their Audi a8 cars.
-whether that car tyres on a road or a protein flowing through a blood stream.
it could make pretty much everything from cars, trains, powerlines and computers-more efficient. here a big effort to understand friction and control it,
drawing the magnetised droplets in a new, predetermined direction, like slot cars on a track,
and retracted like a car antenna, even while it's powering a device. That means the stretchable battery can go places where normal batteries can't go,
There could be self-healing car paint, bicycle frames and wind turbines that don crack, and car windshields that could repair themselves after an encounter with an airborne pebble.
It just a case of adding the substance to existing products, says King:""While the Bristol researchers have focused on aviation,
The dream is one day wel be using nothing but the boundless energy of the Sun to not only power our homes, but our cars
as parts of phones and even cars. This discovery could help improve the performance of these solar cells,
Metallic honeycombs are used already as catalytic convertors of exhaust gas in cars. They are characterized by a high thermal conductivity and mechanical robustness with a low pressure loss during alternating operation modes.
Car bodywork is designed with soft zones that absorb energy from collisions by crumpling. Our idea is to design transformer tanks in such a way that they expand
and mechanics who keep cars trucks and bikes running with little or no access to spare parts.
and crutch tips or ferrules from old car tyres she said. While you have to admire the skill involved it's very time-consuming
Every time the field flips, the polarity of the bars reverses, drawing the magnetized droplets in a new, predetermined direction, like slot cars on a track.
New epigenomic block for advanced cancer Array"If you think of late-stage cancer as a runaway car,
advanced biofuels that can be used directly to fuel your cars,"added Lu, who is affiliated also with the Department of physics
or as a hyper-efficient seat warmer in a car. Although only flat mesh connected into a tube has been made so far,
Today, injection and extrusion molding shape hot liquids into everything from car parts to toys.
or cars being assembled in a factory daunting task if the thousands of images on one hard drive haven been labeled.)
Some people are conscientiously conserving water in their homes in little waysy not washing their cars
The Arduino of Cars Last year we saw Local Motorsstrati, a compact car with a 3d printed body, seats, windshield and support structures.
but DM pride and joy is what inside the car. The DM Blade has a 700hp four-cylinder engine
But DM wants us to focus on another number. 3d Print says the Blade has/50 the factory capital costs of other manufactured cars.
More importantly, they reduce the manufacturing costs, skill requirements and environmental impacts of car manufacturing. The idea,
is to be the Arduino of cars n affordable and customizable platform for car manufacturers to use as the basis for their vehicles.
are ships like car and truck carriers, big ferries, container ships and LNG CARRIERS. Terje Lade forecasts that the freighter will set sail as soon as 2019.
Like a half-made car with extra horns and wheels tacked to one end, a truncated protein with an apparently random sequence of alanines and threonines looks strange,
even more than in cars and other gadgets, there is a direct penalty for adding more batterieshe drone becomes heavier.
tires of the car. As with a big part of today automotive technological innovations, it is aimed at efficiency.
In the future such technology could help harvest otherwise wasted energy to squeeze just that extra bit of efficiency out of cars and other vehicles.
The segment should not cause any disadvantages to the handling and performance of the car.
team used a toy car with LED LIGHTS. Engineers attached an electrode to the tires of the toy car
and watched the LED LIGHTS as the car was rolling forward and they flashed on and off as electrodes came with contact with the surface.
The friction was strong enough for the electrodes to harvest enough energy to power the lights,
Engineers also determined that the amount of energy harnessed is directly related to the weight of a car
As cars are supposed to be greener and greener, everyone involved will have to look for new innovative ways to improve efficiency.
Today, injection and extrusion molding shape hot liquids into everything from car parts to toys.
and cars (see ilicon Chips That See Are Going to Make Your Smartphone Brilliant S
#Why the Time Seems Right for a Space-Based Internet Service providing Internet access from orbiting satellites concept that seemed to have died with the excesses of the dot-com boomas returned thanks to Spacex founder
Nvidia Demos a Car Computer Trained with Deep Learning Many cars now include cameras or other sensors that record the passing world and trigger intelligent behavior,
This week at the International Consumer electronics Show in Las vegas, Nvidia, a leading marking of computer graphics chips, unveiled a vehicle computer called the Drive PX that could help cars interpret
and other graphics for dashboard displays. t pretty cool to bring this level of powerful computation into cars,
A year ago, the company announced at CES that it had developed a compact computer for processing sensor information (see udi Shows Off a Compact Brain for Self-Driving Cars.
At CES, Nvidia showed that its software can detect objects such as cars, people, bicycles and signs, even when they are hidden partly.
At a press event Sunday, Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia CEO, said the devices will provide ore computing horsepower inside a car than anything you have today. e
though, pay nothing, using their own cars and just paying a proportion of their takings to the company for the rides they pick up.
In this brave new world, untapped capacity such as idle cars and rooms is made available for hire, increases efficiency and lowers the price of those goods and services.
But researchers from Portsmouth University have found their structure is so biologically strong it could be copied to make cars, boats and planes.
if a person driving a car is drunk in fact. The program though started as early as 2008,
The technology functions in a way that it causes the cars to shut down if it finds that the drivers exceed the permissible blood alcohol levels.
which could run LED LIGHTS and even drive a miniature car! Sahin informed that his system could be hundreds times cheaper to build per unit area than solar tapping,
Hyundai thinks it has found the most seamless way yet to let drivers integrate their smartphones seamlessly into their cars.
Hyundai says it is the first automaker to launch Android Auto in a production car,
the car's touchscreen, steering wheel controls or voice.""Android Auto aligns with Hyundai's core interior design principles of safety,
but it was duplicative of a key function that the car was already able to perform through its own navigation system.
#New car tech could stop drunken drivers If you're drunk, your car may soon be able to stop you from driving.
A new generation of technology is taking shape around systems that prevent cars from operating
if the driver is drunk. Researchers say the new technology is so promising that they compare it to the advent of the seat belt in terms of its potential."
or another designated surface in the car. Alcohol levels would be measured under the skin's surface on a touchpad with an infrared light scanner.
or wait around in order to start their car. The new technology draws support from a number of driving safety advocates, including Mothers Against Drunk Driving."
"This car is going to be the cure, "says Colleen Sheehey-Church, MADD's president who lost her own son to a drunken driver."
The technology is scheduled to be car-ready in the next five to eight years, according to Zaouk.
It's yet to be seen how much it could add to the price of a new car,
As of now, experts don't envision the system as required equipment in all new cars. Rather
which will be placed in the car. The sensors will act as a tracking system to measure the ratio of carbon dioxide molecules to ethanol molecules produced by the driver.
If the ratio hits a certain threshold of ethanol to carbon, the car won't start.
If the levels register as 0. 08%or more, the car won't start. The machine will only be setup to analyze ethanol levels,
Manufacturers are also considering ways for the car to detect when someone else other than the driver attempts to start the car,
such as creating a touch-ID system programmed to the driver's fingerprints on the touchpad.
These systems require drivers to blow air into a device plugged into the car's ignition, measuring alcohol levels in a similar fashion as a breathalyzer.
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