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Synopsis: Transport & travel: Ground travel: Car:

from gauging distances between cars in adaptive cruise control to mapping forest canopies and detecting the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere.

expensive jewelry and fancy cars. For some, it still does. But for many consumers, the new luxury is something seriously different.

he is ferried around town by a car and driver; the snowy Swiss hamlet, which is too small and awkward for limos,

It will be self-driving cars, and the adoption of this technology will change virtually everything in the field of transportation planning.

Google s self-driving car project has racked already up over 150 000 driverless miles on highways.

In October 2011, Ford demonstrated three SYNC apps offering in-car health monitoring for drivers to track chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma and hay fever.

Operating at less than 2%of the cost of today s car, truck, jet, ship, and train systems, this emerging tube transport system will be a massive undertaking that demands talented new-age thinkers for decades to come.

The world s first fully 3d printed car called, The Urbee The Urbee is a hybrid vehicle that has its entire body

In todays cars, software runs the engines, controls safety features, entertains passengers, guides drivers to destinations and connects each car to mobile, satellite and GPS networks.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

The trend toward hybrid and electric vehicles will only accelerate the software shift#lectric cars are controlled completely computer.

And the creation of software-powered driverless cars is already under way at Google and the major car companies.

Todays leading real-world retailer, Wal-mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.

Some of this capability is available now in rudimentary form in computer games where the controller shakes to indicate an on-screen car collision. 2. Seeing the forest,

if a cell phone caller is in a car with an engine running at 2, 000 rpm,

They sold one of their cars, gave some possessions to relatives and sold others in a yard sale, rented out their six-bedroom house

which recently began manufacturing the Tesla S, a luxury sedan, in Fremont, Calif.,on the edge of Silicon valley.

#It still houses a dingy, unused Toyota corolla assembly line on which an army of workers once turned out half a million cars annually.

Ultimately as many as 83 cars a day#roughly 20,000 are planned for the first year#will be produced at the factory.

assembly work that requires tactile feedback like placing fiberglass panels inside airplanes, boats or cars;

which is why many traffic modelers see adaptive cruise control (A c. C.)#which automatically maintains a set distance behind a car and the vehicle in front of it#as the key to congestion relief.

More sophisticated adaptive cruse control systems could presumably fit more cars on the road. When a quarter of the vehicles on a simulated highway had A c. C,

In another simulation, giving at least a quarter of the cars A c. C. cut traffic delays by up to 20 percent.

an estimated 6. 9 million cars each year will come with A c. C. 7. Anti-theft Handlebars Here s an old idea

Doctor On board Your car is already able to call for help when an accident occurs, but within a few years, it ll tip paramedics off to probable injuries too.

Researchers at the University of Michigan International Center for Automotive Medicine have created the predictive models by cross-referencing the crash data provided by sensors on cars, like speed and location of impact, with 3-D

and invisible cars and windmills will all be possible. Ford had its Evos concept car on display at CES 2012 turning heads with style and design,

but little true innovation Transportation At CES, Ford motor Company unveiled its first-ever zero emissions, electric passenger vehicle, following in the footsteps of Tesla and Nissan.

And they jumped on the cloud computing bandwagon with the new Evos Concept Car. But behind the flashy surfaces

and tech trimming lies some far bigger opportunities. 5.)Driverless cars The next revolution in transportation will be self-driving cars,

Google s self-driving car project has racked already up over 200,000 driverless miles on highways. 6.)Ground-Based Delivery Drones Before we have sold driverless passenger cars in any sizable quantities

Automatic Pothole Detector/Reporter The connected city of the future will see cars automatically reporting

Powering electric cars, boats, and farm equipment may not be that far off. 19.)Plant Monitors-Urban agriculture is catching on like wildfire,

#At one point I even tried to convince my wife that the future wanted me to buy a new car,

Henry ford s vision of the Sky Car is now here and the popular Aeromobil models can often be spotted over the capital,

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers predicted that autonomous cars would account for up to 75 percent of vehicles on the road by the year 2040.

#Google s self-driving car. Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights,

and flip over their cars. Of the ten million accidents that Americans are in every year, nine and a half million are their own damn fault.

Both cars are heading south on Highway 880 in Oakland, going more than seventy miles an hour,

He holds his phone up to the window with both hands until the car is framed just so.

Levandowski used to tell people that the car was designed to chase tornadoes or to track mosquitoes,

#oeself-Driving Car.##Every week for the past year and a half, Levandowski has taken the Lexus on the same slightly surreal commute.

recording their maneuvers in his car s sensor logs, analyzing traffic flow, and flagging any problems for future review.

#oehands-free driving, cars that park themselves, an unmanned car driven by a search-engine company?

We ve seen that movie. It ends with robots harvesting our bodies for energy.##Levandowski understands the sentiment.

a self-driving car will save your life. The Google car is an old-fashioned sort of science fiction:

this year s model of last century s Make it belongs to the gleaming, chrome-plated age of jet packs

Its suburbs and skyscrapers were laced together by superhighways full of radio-guided cars.##oedoes it seem strange?

A sedan cruises down a highway, guided by circuits in the road, while a family plays dominoes inside.#

smart roads and smart cars. General motors pioneered the first approach in the late nineteen-fifties.

Its Firebird III concept car#haped like a jet fighter, with titanium tail fins and a glass-bubble cockpit#as designed to run on a test track embedded with an electrical cable,

As the car passed over the cable, a receiver in its front end picked up a radio signal

alternating their polarity in binary patterns to send messages to the car#oeslow down, sharp curve ahead.#

#Smart cars were more flexible but also more complex. They needed sensors to guide them, computers to steer them,

By 1995, Dickmanns s car was able to drive on the Autobahn from Munich to Odense,

Smart cars were just clever enough to get drivers into trouble. The highways and test tracks they navigated were controlled strictly environments.

is the founder of the Google Car project. A wunderkind from the west German city of Solingen, he programmed his first driving simulator at the age of twelve.

build a car that can drive a hundred and forty-two miles without human intervention. Ernst Dickmanns s car had gone similar distances on the Autobahn,

but always with a driver in the seat to take over in the tricky stretches. The cars in the Grand Challenge would be empty,

and the road would be rough: from Barstow, California, to Primm, Nevada. Instead of smooth curves and long straightaways, it had rocky climbs and hairpin turns;

and recalled that her son used to play with remote-control cars as a boy, crashing them into things on his bedroom floor.

quicker off the mark than a car and more maneuverable. It could slip through tighter barriers and drive just as fast.

The other racers had no such problem. They also had substantial academic and corporate backing:

As for the Ghost rider, it managed to beat out more than ninety cars in the qualifying round#mile

he let his car teach itself. Pomerleau equipped the computer in his minivan with artificial neural networks,

the car was going about two to four miles an hour along a path through a park#ou could ride a tricycle faster,

#In 1996, the car steered itself from Washington, D c, . to San diego with only minimal intervention#early four times as far as Ernst Dickmanns s cars had gone a year earlier.#

#oeno Hands Across America,#Pomerleau called it. Machine learning is an idea nearly as old as computer science#lan Turing, one of the fathers of the field, considered it the essence of artificial intelligence.

A self-taught car can come to some strange conclusions. It may confuse the shadow of a tree for the edge of the road,

sandy trails that the cars tended to go crazy.##oeput too much intelligence into a car and it becomes creative,

#Sebastian Thrun told me. The second Grand Challenge put these two approaches to the test.

Rather than program the car with models of the rocks and bushes it should avoid,

The lasers on the roof scanned the area around the car, while the camera looked farther ahead.

Carnegie mellon, with two cars to Stanford s one, decided to play it safe. They had Highlander run at a fast clip#ore than twenty miles an hour on average#hile Sandstorm hung back a little.

Five cars finished the hundred-and-thirty-two-mile course; more than twenty cars went farther than the winner had in 2004.

In one year, they d made more progress than darpa s contractors had in twenty.#

I have a car, I have a computer, and I need a million bucks. So they were doing things in their home shops,

built a self-driving#oedoom Buggy#that, Thrun recalls, could change lanes and stop at stop signs.

#Most cars are used only for an hour or two a day, he said. The rest of the time, they re parked on the street or in driveways and garages.

But if cars could drive themselves, there would be need no for most people to own them.

they d use half the fuel and a fifth the road space of ordinary cars#nd far more flexible than buses or subways.

Five years earlier, Page had strapped a video camera on his car and taken several hours of footage around the Bay Area.

Then they equipped a hundred cars and sent them all over the United states. Google street view has since spread to more than a hundred countries.

Would he be interested in building a self-driving pizza delivery car? Within five weeks, he and a team of fellow Berkeley graduates and other engineers had re

#Google s quest to popularize self-driving cars How a self-driving car sees the world.

By the time he points his car down the street, it has used its GPS and other sensors to determine its location in the world.

Levandowski s car and those around him are represented by little white squares. The graphics are reminiscent of Pong.

The car s computer is now driving him to work. Self-driving cars have been around in one form or another since the 1970s

but three DARPA Grand Challenges, in 2004,2005, and 2007, jump-started the field. Grand Challenge alumni now populate self-driving laboratories worldwide.

It s the all-seeing eye mounted on top of Levandowski s car, and it s used by virtually every other experimental self-driving system ever built.

and mandates for car-borne beacons that will broadcast location information to other vehicles on the road.

when a collision seems imminent#hen the car ahead breaks hard, for example, or another vehicle swerves erratically into traffic.

He s the business lead of Google s self-driving-car project, an initiative that the company has been developing for the better part of a decade.

Commuters in Silicon valley report seeing one of the cars#asily identifiable by a spinning turret mounted on the roof#n average of once an hour.

Google itself reports that collectively the cars have driven more than 500,000 miles without crashing. At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year, where Governor Jerry brown signed California s self-driving-car bill into law, Google cofounder Sergey Brin said#oeyou

can count on one hand the number of years until ordinary people can experience this.##In other words, a self-driving car will be parked on a street near you by 2018.

Yet releasing a car will require more than a website and a#oeclick here to download#button.

For Chauffeur to make it to your driveway, it will have to run a gauntlet: Chauffeur must navigate a path through a skeptical Detroit, a litigious society,

In the language particular to Google, the researchers are#oedogfooding#the car#riving to work each morning in the same way that Levandowski does.

Google needs to put the car in the hands of ordinary drivers in order to test the user experience.

Chris Urmson, the director of Google s self-driving-car project, told a government audience in Washington, D c,

A self-driving car near Google s headquarters rear-ended another Prius with enough force to push it forward

and impact another two cars, falling-dominoes style. The incident took place two years ago#he Stone age,

the car was not in self-driving mode at the time, so the accident wasn t Chauffeur s fault.

#Google has been uncommonly secretive about its self-driving-car program. Though it began in 2009,

#oehands-free driving, cars that park themselves, an unmanned car driven by a search-engine company.#

#The voice-over is monotone, lifeless, ominous.##oewe ve seen that movie, #the voice intones.#

But at $75, 000 to $85, 000 each, Google s lidar costs more than every other component in the self-driving car combined, including the car itself.

It would be many more years before a self-driving car is brought to market, prompting lidar orders in the hundreds of thousands.

Self-driving cars should be achievable in five years. It takes more than five years to engineer a new car from the ground up.

If Detroit started designing self-driving cars now around components that actually exist, there s no way the technology could get to the showroom by 2017.

Google is not a car manufacturer. Nor does it intend to be one, Levandowski says. So what s the plan?#

It too is filled with catch-22 s. Hall described a Powerpoint presentation containing the automaker s analysis of self-driving-car technology.#

#Detroit doesn t want to start making self-driving cars without legal clarity. And legal clarity will not arrive until self-driving cars test the law.

Bryant Walker Smith, a civil engineer, lawyer, and Stanford Law school fellow, is the leading expert on how existing law would apply to self-driving cars.

His book-length legal analysis has more than 650 footnotes, but the title sums up the situation:#

And under the Geneva convention, a basic legal requirement for drivers#hether of animals or of cars#s the same.

The Google car doesn t work without one, as Chauffeur needs to be able to hand back the reins with 10,20,

And even if self-driving cars do not violate an international treaty, myriad state laws imply that the driver must be human.

have made the cars explicitly legal. The doctrine assigns driver-hood to the person either in the driver s seat or the one who activates the self-driving function.

the director of Google s self-driving-car project, allows. But that doesn t mean the development of potentially lifesaving technology should be halted.#

There s one last hazard to engineer out of the modern car: human error, which according to NHTSA, is the#oecertain#cause of 81 percent of all car crashes.

Cars kill roughly 32,000 people a year in the U s, . and in 2010, Levandowski s life partner, Stefanie Olsen, was one of the 2. 2 million per year injured.

She was nine months pregnant at the time.##oemy son s name is Alex, and Alex almost was born never,

He credits the safety features engineered into the car#Prius#or saving Alex s life.

Self-driving-car boosters talk about a virtuous circle that starts when human hands leave the wheel.

Computer control enables cars to drive behind one another, so they travel as a virtual unit.

which its cars autonomously follow a professional driver. It uses technology that s already built into every high-end Volvo sold today, plus a communications system.

Wayne Gerdes, the father of#oehypermiling,#can nearly double the rated efficiency of cars using fuel-sipping techniques that could be incorporated into auto-driving software.

and its newest cars already start driving themselves if they sense imminent danger, either by steering back onto the roadway or braking in anticipation of a crash.

NHTSA defines five levels of autonomous-car tech, with level zero being nothing. Level one cars include standard safety features such as ABS brakes, electronic stability control,

and adaptive cruise control (ACC). In level two, level-one features like lane centering and ACC tie together

and the car begins to drive itself. Level three has the Google-style autopilot. And level four is the holy grail#he car that can drive you home

when you re drunk and then go fetch another six-pack. Already NHTSA has mandated level-one technologies in every new car.

Several automakers have systems that approach level two on the test track, and Mercedes appears to be the first to market.

Mercedes offers Distronic Plus with Steering Assist as an option on the 2014 S-class luxury sedans.

and maintain a safe distance from the car in front of it. But the real engineering challenge is making sure the driver stays alert.#

who worked with Google on its self-driving-car project for two years.##oepeople start doing all kinds of things they shouldn t#igging around in the backseat, for example.

the car must be able to hand back control with no warning. But the temptation for drivers is to simply zone out.

#oeas the car gets more and more capable, we want the driver to maintain driving expertise.##Advocates like to say that there is no technical reason the new Mercedes needs hands on the wheel to steer through a turn.

It believes its level-three system will make cars safe enough for people to daydream

NHTSA s former deputy director, Ron Medford, has signed just on as Google s director of safety for the self-driving-car project.#

You shouldn t give up on flying cars or hoverboards just yet. As technology continues to march on,

While currently focusing on people and cars, they d like to add animals and weather conditions soon. 3. Wireless Electricity The notion of wireless electric power has been around far longer than one might think:

self-made billionaire who has led the design of revolutionary cars and rockets and he needs no introduction.

4 3#high and 16 2#long, not far off the dimensions of a midsize car.

occasional linear motors en route maintain gaps between cars and subtly adjust speed, and linear motors at the destination do the braking,

winning back much of the acceleration energy through an analog of a hybrid car s regenerative braking system.

The cars are bigger roughly six feet high by 4. 5-feet wide, and long enough for 28 passengers.

one that could carry three cars). The tubes would host the vacuum-pressure equivalent of an altitude of 150,000 feet.

Rather than using maglev technology, Hyperloop cars float on a cushion of air. As with ET3, Hyperloop s minimizing air resistance

Oster says ET3 is 50 times more efficient than the best electric cars or trains; a 57-megawatt solar array atop the Hyperloop route would produce more than twice the average power needed to run the system, Musk estimates.

Musk went back to work on his spacecraft and electric cars; Oster is forging ahead on ET3. In his Rand report of 41 years ago,

What our team did initially was cannibalize a kids remote control car to send a signal to the device worn by the animal.

8. Driverless cars How long will it be before we see the first highway in the U s. to be designated as adriverless-cars only highway?

Who are some of todays best-known celebrities that would likely show up as downloadable personalities for your computer, car, or robot?

Invisible fences, invisible screens, invisible cars and windmills will all be possible. What kind of market will there be for invisible netting like this?

and Alexandria, Va.,places designed before automobiles arrived. Several of the most popular cities have become an important part of New Urbanism,

not for automobiles, says University of Nevada-Las vegas demographer Robert Lang. And the 20-somethings love the people, not the automobile.

Using recent U s. Census data, USA TODAY has identified 289 cities that have more 20-somethings than teens in the case of Charleston and about a dozen other cities, it s 2-to-1 or higher.

a young developer who is working with the city to build acreative corridor on Meeting Street, an industrial thoroughfare once dominated by car dealerships.

the electric car company, is slowly reshaping how people think about driving. Following the same pattern can help any social entrepreneur get people excited about world-changing products.

ELECTRIC CARS AND THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS THEORY Elon musk is the man behind Paypal Spacex, and Tesla Motors.

to build a market for electric cars, beginning with luxury cars, and then expanding over time to reach a broader consumer base.

that is, it wasn t simply about building an amazing electric car, it was also about creating an environment in

and he understood what it would take to get that group behind the wheel of an electric car.

He would need to design a car that could be compelling enough to act as a status symbol for young professionals in the insular community of Silicon valley.

He knew his audience would be highly technologically literate and very social in both how they bought the car

He needed a luxury car that would be theit car in Silicon valley. But perhaps as importantly, he would need to find a solution for the incredibly expensive battery technology needed for the car to work.

Just the battery for an electric car costs more than double the price of an entry-level car in the market.

For this reason alone, Tesla would have to focus on the luxury end of the market.

Tesla s cars are designed and built for the Google or Apple executive. The Apple headquarters boast more Teslas than a Tesla showroom.

Five years after the introduction of its Model S car Tesla was reporting a profit,

and the Model S had become the third best-selling luxury car, behind only the Mercedes E Class and BMW 5 Series.

ensuring the car is safe before it gets on the road, and in turn bringing along the more risk-averse parts of the population.

Tesla is building a network of car superchargers so that owners can drive coast-to-coast without range anxiety.

he needs to invest in the electric car market, and not just his cars. Tesla won t succeed just by selling electric cars.

They need to grow the overall electric vehicle market. They need to remove barriers for their competitors so they can join them in moving away from gas-fueled cars.

To this end, Tesla now sells their patented powertrain components to competitors. They are concerned less about the competition taking up market share than building the market

and creating scale that will bring the prices down enough to be viable options for the average car buyer.

By selling luxury electric cars first Musk and his team at Tesla have accelerated actually the development of technology for the market.

Tesla s success has created further hope for electric cars and spurred investment in research and development. Musk s initial customers were largely in Silicon valley

and connected to venture funding, a proximity that ultimately increased investment in batteries and renewable energy.

and ultimately it will need to be easier than owning a gas fueled car. In order for the laggardsthe most risk-averse group of allto come along,

or simply no more gas stations left to fuel their antique cars. But if Musk sluxury cars for the tech-elite strategy works, it will ultimately allow Musk to sell electric-powered sedans and minivans to families in Ohio.

It sounds intuitive, maybe even obvious, but most entrepreneurs (particularly those working on social issues) don t follow this model.

why Elon musk first entered the electric car market by focusing on luxury cars, and other social changes like sustainability, same-sex marriage, andin my casepro bono services.

has positioned itself to sell drones in much the same way as General motors works with its dealers to peddle cars.

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