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a paddle behind the steering wheel provides a boost using that stored energy. n racing, if youe not going to make it faster,
which house the pistons that drive internal combustion engines. It's a process that lasts around one millisecond
The company was even able to show that cruise control was engaged not, that charging stations were driven past,
but a small steering wheel meant there was enough room for my knees. being surrounded by glass helps give the perception of space too,
stands out so much for its design it was awarded recently the Green Car Journal 2014 Green Car technology Award.
and disengage regen at will by pulling back or releasing left or right steering wheel paddles. This not only creates electricity on demand,
without braking or requiring a driver foot to reposition from the accelerator pedal. adillac has evolved cleverly a common electric-drive efficiency system into an intriguing feature that adds a new dimension to the driving experience,
#Is This The Perfect Electric car Tire? What does it take to create a special electric vehicle tire particularly one up to the standards of BMW's new i3?
It is a question Bridgestone the world's largest tire manufacturer set out to answer recently
when the German automaker approached it about designing a range of tires that it is the exclusive supplier of for this luxury electric car.
Bridgestone said its answer to the perfect electric car tire question came in the form of theologic technology
The result is a tyre that delivers significant improvements in aerodynamics and rolling resistance while still offering outstanding grip in wet weather conditions.
While the tread on smaller diameter tyres is inclined typically to excessive movement or eformationduring driving the larger diameter
and higher belt tension significantly reduce tyre deformation and therefore conserve energy that is otherwise lost through internal friction
The tyre long contact patch (relative to its narrow width) revolutionary tread design and compound still ensure outstanding grip in both wet and dry conditions.
85qand two winter varieties he BLIZZAK LM-500 ologic a lamellen tire and the BLIZZAK NV ologic a studless tire (with Multicell compound for Nordic conditions.'
Developing a unique tyre for this unique vehicle was therefore an enormously challenging but also rewarding experience.
Energy efficiency is an important development criteria for all our tyres at Bridgestone. However it becomes an even more critical factor in an electric car.
and passion into developing this unique tyre concept. One that we are confident delivers the premium performance safety
and the China Automotive technology and Research center will work together to help speed the commercialization of plug-in and fuel cell electric cars in China and the U s. under an agreement signed Sept. 6 in Tianjin, China.
The project consortium made up of automotive electronics and printing machine manufacturers their suppliers and universities approached the problem by focusing on a process central to their manufacturing activities:
and a large portion of these goes into the production of vehicle tires. Once the products reach the end of their useful life
And now I have serious difficulties moving the steering wheel while driving. It all started with pain along the neck and moving down to my shoulders.
We would like to reassure all Bitstamp customers that their balances held prior to our temporary suspension of services will not be affected
And because e-jet can naturally handle fluid inks it is suited exceptionally well for patterning solution suspensions of nanotubes nanocrystals nanowires
and tires their organs one by one until their little bodies cannot go on any more, wrote the group,
According to Chuck Greenwood, Humancar Inc. CEO and son of Charles Greenwood, this is apparently much more intuitive (not to mention more fun) than using a conventional steering wheel.
power up and cruise control. Other available features include a human/machine interface (HMI) touch-screen display with GPS and biometric data logging, ipod integrated sound systems,
In the near future the company also plans to integrate proximity braking systems and multi-stage airbags into production units.
is a design element in everything from Android phones to car steering wheels. Because the technology is currently relatively primitive in the mass market,
use the throttle level. To turn it, tilt your iphone in the direction you d like the paper plane to head.
how many miles are left to be driven on the current tank of gas, tire pressure, and radio and entertainment usage.
#Instead of cars that have#no steering wheels, gas pedals, or brake pedals for drivers to control, Baidu is thinking about cars with intelligent assistants who help you drive.##
##This is actually an intelligent assistant collecting data from road situations, Baidu s Kai Yu told The next Web.
They experimented with both ABS and PLA plastic. t was just a whole ton of trials before we looked at something
which means you don need airbags and crash tests. The made-in-America equivalent of the Twike is named another three wheeler the ELF which
That's a lot to ask from an ELF which lacks basic suspension and is jolting over rough pavement.
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#NASA'flying saucer'for Mars to land in Hawaii In June while beachgoers in Hawaii sit blissfully unaware a flying saucer will descend over the island of Kauai.
Until recently NASA had used parachutes and airbags for most robotic landings on Mars starting with the Viking mission in 1976.
The memo stated that the suspension includes NASA travel to Russia and visits by Russian government representatives to NASA facilities bilateral meetings email and teleconferences or videoconferences.
NASA's suspension of working with the Russians will likely be received in Russia much the same way other sanctions over its actions in Ukraine have been:
of which acts as the engine's throttle is applied. Lozano's team have fired the thrusters in the lab
at developing advanced drivetrain controls and rotor designs. ut out of that study we spotted tower transport as one of the biggest bottlenecks holding back the industry,
A system proposed by researchers at MIT recycles materials from discarded car batteries a potential source of lead pollution into new,
But by using recycled lead from old car batteries, the manufacturing process can instead be used to divert toxic material from landfills
the team analysis shows that the lead from a single car battery could produce enough solar panels to provide power for 30 households.
Battery pileup ahead One motivation for using the lead in old car batteries is that battery technology is undergoing rapid change, with new, more efficient types, such as lithium-ion batteries,
It s now time to step on the gas pedal Stanley says. I am devoting my personal wealth to this goal.
and water Whenever there is a major spill of oil into water the two tend to mix into a suspension of tiny droplets called an emulsion that is extremely hard to separate and that can cause severe damage to ecosystems.
as if pressing on a gas pedal. The joint is weaker when tilting from side to side,
#Vanishing friction Friction is all around us, working against the motion of tires on pavement, the scrawl of a pen across paper,
In this so-called low battery, the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid
Nano Letters pubs. acs. org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl503817 7
#'Trojan horse'proteins are step forward for nanoparticle-based anticancer and anti-dementia therapeutic approaches Scientists at Brunel University London have found a way of targeting hard-to-reach cancers
which can contain suspensions of silver nanoparticles (but don't drink them you'll go blue). Why are they good for medical detection?
ACS Nano pubs. acs. org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn500914 i
#Atomically thin material opens door for integrated nanophotonic circuits A new combination of materials can efficiently guide electricity
and drive virtual vehicles too using virtual pedals and steering wheels. The options are unlimited with this combo. very exciting times for the human race.
but coming to a full stop unleashes the grinding symphony of traditional disc brakes. The unusual shape was a compromise between aerodynamics and comfort for at least two people as required by the cruiser class specifications.
and moves instead of say having an airbag you use once and throw away. That saves a lot of mass you would need to fly on a mission which in turn saves on cost.
#Turning Old Lead Batteries Into New Solar energy Used car batteries can leech chemicals and create lead pollution
In newly published research the scientists show that recycled lead from car batteries works as well as fresh lead
The group's work demonstrates that the perovskite created from the lead in just one old car battery could provide materials for 30 households-worth of solar energy cells.
The research Environmentally-responsible fabrication of efficient perovskite solar cells from recycled car batteries was published recently online by the journal Energy and Environmental science.
Articulate traction control connects three segments together with suspension joints that allow the chassis to articulate diagonally-downward
It probably electric and its maximum speed is limited to 25mph (40km/h). Its most striking characteristic is that it doesn have any controls#no steering wheel accelerator
or brake pedals#and you can ride it strictly as a passenger which is probably a strange feeling but according to Google video not entirely unpleasant.
Even the suspension wishbones look highly over-engineered for a 25mph city car. A substantial crash box is placed in the front
and you are going slow enough that short of a catastrophic error like going full throttle you aren going to hurt people no matter what you do at least on a highway where there are no pedestrians or cyclists.
(if you trust them) as cruise control does but they give you little else. A ead a booklevel system would give people back time and signal the true dawn of robocars.
The capital was filled with the sound of car horns as desperate residents rushed to get back home to check on loved ones.
"and during this next phase of our project we'll have safety drivers aboard with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal,
and brake pedal that allow them to take over driving if needed, "Urmson said.""We're looking forward to learning how the community perceives
and many street cars that can rotate upwards to increase traction on the tires by increasing drag
you want to increase traction on the tires, Tibbits posits. ou can actually transform the wing panels on the car
what the brakes are doing (particularly automatic braking systems), and whether the fog lights are on. Auxiliary data might include barometric pressure,
which, unlike conventional vehicles, can exploit the warmth of air that been passed over an internal combustion engine.
or in the steering wheel), are power-hungry. That why today drivers of e-cars must
though his weight was supported partially by an overhead suspension harness and a walker he grasped to keep his body upright,
though his weight was supported partially by an overhead suspension harness and a walker he grasped to keep his body upright,
This project used ABS (PLA is too frail for most end-use parts; however the machine has an open print chamber so
Dr. Wong team was able to produce an ABS custom mallet finger splint, a dental filling replacement tool,
extruding ABS-carbon fiber composite over the course of 40 hours, before the body was milled to achieve a more refined look.
and the material supplier for the ABS-carbon fiber composite we were able to reduce the material
On the path to commercialisation, her team found an even more effective approach was to use the polymers in another type of waste used car tyres.
Most of the existing uses for old tyres involve making low value secondary products such as asphalt, aggregate for cement, artificial reefs, footwear, plastic and rubber composites,
In Australia alone, this technology has resulted so far in over two million used car tyres being converted from waste into a valuable feedstock for steel production.
while at the same time reducing the environmental problems of waste tyre disposal s
#Deep-sea fish found to be warm-blooded Calling someone a cold fish may not hold any more after scientists today revealed a deep-sea fish that is warm-blooded.
and was published in ACS Catalysis http://pubs. acs. org/doi/abs/10.1021/cs502000j The Critical Materials Institute is a Department of energy Innovation Hub led by the U s. Department of energy's Ames Laboratory.
though his weight was supported partially by an overhead suspension harness and a walker he grasped to keep his body upright,
so a car battery could provide backup power during an outage. But electric cars create challenges for grid operators.
In March, a separate patent revealed that Google's self driving car could have airbags both inside and out.
It shows an external airbag system in action that inflates if the car hits a pedestrian or other object.
The airbags would be made a new'memory foam'material that doesn't simply cause the pedestrian or cyclists to bounce off.
The small, bulbous cars without steering wheels or pedals are being tested at a Google facility in California.
self-driving cars must have a steering wheel and pedals. Several other states have passed laws formally allowing autonomous cars on public roads without that restriction.
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,
'They're ultimately designed to work without a steering wheel or pedals, but during this phase of our project we'll have safety drivers aboard with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal,
and brake pedal that allow them to take over driving if needed.''The prototypes'speed is capped at a neighborhood-friendly 25mph,
and they'll drive using the same software that our existing Lexus vehicles usehe same fleet that has driven self over 1 million miles
it will likely even have a steering wheel and gas pedal-current California regulations require them. Those regulations also require a driver to be able to take back control of the car at any time.
But Google is lobbying for more flexible regulations. Google will initially build and test 25 pods,
Infiniti and other brands already have advanced driver assistance systems, like lane keeping and adaptive cruise control,
#The airbag for a BULLET: Ping pong ball-style cushion can be attached to any gun to slow down shots
and other law enforcement agencies could soon be avoided thanks to a device that acts like an'airbag'for a bullet.'
Scroll down for video It is hoped the'airbag for a bullet'could reduce the number of civilians killed by police officers in potentially lethal situations.
'The Alternative'works like an'airbag for a bullet',slowing it down to one fifth of its intended speed.
'Just like an airbag, a certain amount of people will die when they get into an impact and the air bag hits their chest.'
#Helmet with built-in suspension: 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.
'By having a suspension in the helmet, the helmet is active at a much lower energy demand than a traditional design.'
the 6d helmet's Omnidirectional Suspension (ODS) will compress and shear omni-directionally when subjected to impact.
The satellite in question doesn have a snappy name it a communications satellite called ABS-3a 702sp.
Bermuda-based telecommunications company ABS. Because ABS-3a is a communications satellite, it needs to remain in a geosynchronous orbit.
In this case, Boeing claims the Xenon Ion Propulsion system (XIPS) designs used for ABS-3a is ten times more efficient than liquid fueled rockets.
ABS-3a needs only 11 pounds (5kg) of xenon gas per year to maintain station-keeping,
ABS expects the satellite to remain active for about 15 years. Ion thrusters are also considerably lighter than chemical engines
Upon delivery to orbit, ABS-3a used its ion thrusters to reach a geosynchronous orbit at 3 degrees west longitude.
the satellite was turned over to ABS on August 31st. Now that the design has proven itself viable,
Boeing is forging ahead with a second satellite for ABS using the same XIPS engines.
It's as if every time you push on the brake pedal in your car, you burn a little bit of gas."
These work in conjunction with Active Cruise control and Active Brake Assist along with a stereo camera that identifies road markings and guides steering.
and make a nice suspension, meaning you can do work with them. However, people havent really done that in 2-D before.
Suspensions of colloidal particles are most familiar to us as beverages, cosmetics and paints. At a diameter in the range of ten to one hundred nanometres, a single such particle is invisible to the naked eye.
and uses non-corrosive, nontoxic 2d nanomaterial suspension in liquid form, such as graphene oxide, as the pressure sensing element to recognise force-induced changes.
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.
#Human cruise control app steers people on their way For a few days last summer, a handful of students walked through a park behind the University of Hannover in Germany.
One of the students compared the feeling to cruise control in a car, where the driver can take control back
"This article appeared in print under the headline"Human cruise control r
#Womb milk nourishes human embryo during first weeks of pregnancy Call it the milk of life not breast milk,
Into this mould, they pour a suspension containing magnetised ceramic platelets, such as aluminium oxide platelets. The pores of the plaster mould slowly absorb the liquid from the suspension,
which causes the material to solidify and to harden from the outside in. The scientists create an ordered layer-like structure by applying a magnetic field during the casting process,
Through the composition of the suspension and the direction of the platelets, a continuous process can be used to produce multiple layers with differing material properties in a single object.
They then filled this mould with a suspension containing aluminium oxide platelets and glass nanoparticles as mortar.
the scientists poured a second suspension into the same mould. This suspension, however, did not contain glass particles.
The aluminium oxide platelets in the second layer were aligned horizontally to the surface of the tooth using the magnet.
nontoxic 2d nanomaterial suspension in liquid form, such as graphene oxide, as the pressure sensing element to recognise force-induced changes.
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.
This speed control mechanism makes sure that proteins are assembled and folded properly in different cells. Therefore, the genetic code not only specifies the sequence of amino acids but also the shape of the protein."
or via the'suspension'method (where a'stalagmite'of cells is built up by material being dropped via gravity.)"
#Plastic parts for internal combustion engines Efforts to produce lighter vehicles necessarily include engine parts, such as the cylinder casing,
Recently, researchers at Oxford university Department of Engineering science have been investigating mart gelsthat can switch from a stable gel to a liquid suspension of very small particles (a ol.
Thermoelectric graphene composite, with graphene fragments ringed in the 2 m-scale image Internal combustion engines lose about 70 per cent of the energy from their fuel as heat,
I tell people to not envision themselves with their foot hovering over the brake or with their white knuckles on the steering wheel,
the researchers pass a suspension of B cells and target antigen through tiny, parallel channels etched on a chip.
A positive-pressure system moves the suspension through these channels which gradually narrow, applying a gentle pressure to the B cells.
Friction is all around us, working against the motion of tires on pavement, the scrawl of a pen across paper,
In this so-called low battery, the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid
which is used for everything from tires to hot-melt adhesives. Genencor pegs the market for isoprene at 11 billion pounds by the year 2012.
Genencor has teamed up with Goodyear to create concept tires using Bioisoprene. From a chemical standpoint, we are making the same chemical,
It will take some time for these tires to actually hit the commercial market. Genencor and Goodyear are in the process of building a small-scale facility to really validate the process
and ensure that Bioisoprene doesn't in some way change the performance of Goodyear tires. Yes what they are doing could be good for the environment,
For an idea of the impact, consider that approximately 50 percent of consumer tires are made from polymers
as the company looks toward guaranteeing a cost-effective supply of the raw materials for its tires for many years to come e
The closest printer to me, for example, is a Prusa Mendel I2 that uses#ABS Plastic in numerous colors.
The development of the technology has proceeded by measured steps, much like the progress toward the driverless carirst antilock brakes, next GPS navigation, then adaptive cruise control and self-parking.
If so Box s long-delayed IPO could kick its tires before the end of the first quarter of next year.
or safety belts or airbags. Drones could spur demand for lighter batteries or a different kind of power source.
or technology that continuously keeps your electronic car battery running. According to Energous Corporation, that day is just around the corner.
arxiv. org/abs/1410.5401: Neural Turing Machine e
#A Credit card Terminal That Takes Apps Last year Osama Bedier then the head of Google Wallet decided he was on the wrong side of the payments business.
http://arxiv. org/abs/1407.6520#DNA Detection By THZ Pumpin p
#IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does A new kind of computer chip,
arxiv. org/abs/1406.5581#3dtouch: A Wearable 3d Input device With An Optical Sensor And A 9-DOF Inertial Measurement Uni U
So it is covered by the same guidelines and regulations as adaptive cruise control, a feature in some cars that automatically keeps vehicles on the highway a safe distance from the ones around them.
when a car airbags are deployed, or whether crash sensors on the bumpers have been triggered, potentially allowing ads pegged to incidents on the road. t could be had you just a little fender bender,
and graphite electrodes at a plant that also makes graphite for tires and other applications.
#Audi unveils virtual cockpit piloted driving system at CES Introducing a new wave of avant-garde automotive technology Audi has unveiled its virtual cockpit
In addition, Makergeeksconductive ABS filament has a resistivity of roughly 1 000wcm-which makes IMRE material at least 1, 000 times more conductive.
But in reality, most of us continue to limit ourselves to regular plastic designs made in either PLA or ABS filaments.
and has good structural strength similar to ABS materials commonly used in 3d printing. The relatively low fluidity parameters of the gel create high advantages
and ABS, but it can print silicon, ceramic, rubber, and more. With an added end-stop, the Focus can more easily integrate these different print heads,
pajamas, toothbrushes, tires, shoes, car seats, air filtration systems and even your clothes. Abbey Liebman 0 created a dress using conductive cotton threads capable of charging an iphone.
The interior is much more 21st century too, with big comfy seats, air suspension, infotainment screen,
scale buildings and even hold a car's steering wheel. CHIMP is roughly the size of a human,
or turning a steering wheel without step-by-step direction from the human controller, circumventing the lag between command and execution.'
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.
but the team that performed that analysis noted that proper recycling would put Al-air in the same cost range as conventional internal combustion engines.
#lastic bucklinghoneycomb structures bounce right back from major impacts The concept of impact resistance likely brings to mind vehicle airbags, trampolines, helmets, kneepads,
before you start to turn the steering wheel. Your car uses GPS map data to tell the headlamps when to swivel.
and then aggregate, culminating in their precipitation from suspension as their buoyancy decreases. Important features are no temperature increase, no damage to cells or proteins,
A fifth G-track found a few nucleotides distant from the G4 tracks involved in folding can act as a pare tire,
a job that can be done by any mechanic to any internal combustion engine, with the benefits of the installation being immediate.
The prototype smartphone app lets you start the car and control the brakes, throttle and steering, as well as gearshifts.
We don't see any information about the bike's specific drivetrain, so we're left to assume that it packs the same 200-watt motor and 9 Ah battery as the Mode:
#Morphing tire concept adapts to suit driving conditions As the point of contact between a vehicle and the road,
tires are one of the most important parts of a car. Unfortunately, there's no one size fits all,
or rather, one tire fits all surfaces or weather conditions, tire and swapping them over when encountering changing conditions isn't exactly feasible.
Kumho's Maxplo tire takes the airless tire concept and takes things a few futuristic steps further.
the surface and circumference of the tire features specially-designed three-dimensional grooves. The placement of the grooves isn't just random or for show,
the large intersectional tread blocks that make up the surface of the tire move apart, broadening the tire's footprint to increase traction.
For snow and ice, the tire has one more trick up its sleeve in the form of spikes that remain hidden beneath the tread blocks in other conditions.
To finish their futuristic concept off, the designers added a hydrogen fuel-powered electric hub motor.
The tires would measure 700 x 700 x 250 mm (27.5 x 27.5 x 9. 8 in)
many of its concepts will flow into tire design over the next few years, and the overall concept will continue to be refined with a view to one-day offering tires such as this to consumers,
"says David Basha, Kumho Tyre Australia manager of marketing and training. Source: Kumho, ADESIGN Award A
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