Archive for the ‘transportation’ category: Page 296
Jun 3, 2019
Los Angeles transit to install body scanners that will screen for weapons and explosives
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: terrorism, transportation
“While we are on watch, we will not have a repeat of 9/11 or any terrorist incident inside our transportation system in the United States,” said the TSA’s administrator.
Jun 1, 2019
Chinese Tesla Model 3 Price Crushes BMW 3 Series & Mercedes C-Class Prices
Posted by Fyodor Rouge in categories: sustainability, transportation
Tesla has just launched pricing and ordering for the Tesla Model 3 that will be made in the Shanghai Gigafactory. The 328,000 RMB ($47,475) price for the Standard Range Plus is before local incentives, and crushes fossil rivals in the same class and without somewhat similar specs, the BMW 3 Series and Mercedes C-Class (also both locally made in China).
Tesla Model 3 order page in China (text is auto-translated and may include errors) — Click to Zoom.
May 31, 2019
Carmageddon Sinks Tesla’s Bonds
Posted by Fyodor Rouge in categories: sustainability, transportation
Tesla is like Cholesterol 😂…
Tesla has been steeped in chaos – and chaos is absolutely the opposite of what a complex manufacturing, distribution, and retail operation needs. Musk himself has sowed that chaos. And he relentlessly continues to sow it.
One of his recent antics was that he told employees in this email last week that the company would embark on a cost-cutting drive that would entail that “all expenses of any kind anywhere in the world, including parts, salary, travel expenses, rent, literally every payment that leaves our bank account must (be) reviewed” by the CFO, and that Musk himself would sign off on every 10th page of expenses.
May 31, 2019
ADIFO: The hyper-agile, omnidirectional, supersonic flying saucer
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: transportation
At low speed, it operates like a quadcopter, at high speed, it’s a jet-propelled, highly efficient supersonic aircraft whose entire body acts as a low-drag wing. Those are the claims of the Romanian creators of this flying saucer that’s designed to offer unprecedented aerial agility across a broad range of speeds.
May 30, 2019
NASA and MIT Debut Shape-Shifting Airplane Wing
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: materials, transportation
A team from NASA and MIT has created a new type of airplane wing — and it could make air travel far more efficient.
In a paper published in the journal Smart Materials and Structures on Monday, the researchers describe how they built an airplane wing from hundreds of identical, lightweight cube-like structures, all bolted together and then covered with a thin polymer material.
The design allows the wing to change shape automatically, adjusting itself to whatever configuration is optimal for the current phase of flight — with one configuration for take-off, for example, and another for landing.
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May 29, 2019
The ‘Godfathers of AI’ win Turing Award
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Self-driving cars, voice assistants, and facial recognition technology are just a few of the advancements made possible by Hinton, LeCun, and Bengio’s work.
The award, named after British mathematician Alan Turing, carries a $1 million prize, which the trio will split. Previous Turing Award winners include Tim Berners-Lee, best known for inventing the World Wide Web.
Hinton is currently a top AI researcher at Google. LeCun is now at Facebook, working as the company’s chief AI scientist. Bengio has remained in academia but has worked with companies such as AT&T, Microsoft, and IBM.
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May 24, 2019
See China’s Newly Unveiled Maglev Train
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: transportation
May 23, 2019
Electromagnetic Propulsion Elevated Transportation System
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: engineering, transportation
The Create the Future Design Contest was launched in 2002 by the publishers of NASA Tech Briefs magazine to help stimulate and reward engineering innovation. The annual event has attracted more than 8,000 product design ideas from engineers, entrepreneurs, and students worldwide.
May 23, 2019
Seattle makes history with electric garbage truck
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: energy, transportation
Despite this, electric garbage trucks are still few and far between. BYD’s main competitor is Motiv Power Systems, which has sold small fleets of class 8 side-loading garbage trucks to Los Angeles and Sacramento, California. Wrightspeed, which was also making hybrid-electric garbage trucks—featured in this article from 2015—appears to have gone dormant, despite a contract to supply the New Zealand cities of Auckland and Wellington. And recently, Volvo announced a battery electric garbage truck, the FE Electric, although it appears to be limited to the European market.