Archive for the ‘transportation’ category: Page 468
May 9, 2018
Elon Musk’s Vision For The Future Of Public Transport
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, transportation
May 7, 2018
Drive.ai Launches a Self-Driving Car Service in Frisco, Texas
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Silicon Valley’s Drive.ai is starting a pilot program to ferry office workers around a small area of Frisco, with vehicles that can “chat” with passers-by.
May 2, 2018
Can We Train a Computer to Read Your Mind?
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: computing, transportation
May 2, 2018
Can Humans Survive a Faster Future?
Posted by Bill Kemp in categories: security, transportation
Life is moving faster and faster. Just about everything—transportation, weapons, the flow of information—is accelerating. How will decisionmakers preserve our personal and national security in the face of hyperspeed?
Apr 30, 2018
Virgin Hyperloop One wants to cut 4-day cargo truck trips to 16 hours
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: transportation
Virgin Hyperloop One and trade logistics company DP World have created a new cargo brand “built for an on-demand world.”
Apr 30, 2018
Airbus, Dassault Aviation and Leonardo reaffirm their total commitment in the first fully European MALE programme
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in categories: robotics/AI, security, space, transportation
Berlin 26th April 2018 – The first full scale model of the European Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Remotely Piloted Aircraft (MALE RPAS) was unveiled today during a ceremony held at the 2018 ILA Berlin Air Show, which opened its gates at Schönefeld airport.
The reveal ceremony, led by Dirk Hoke, Airbus Defence and Space Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Eric Trappier, Dassault Aviation Chairman and CEO and Lucio Valerio Cioffi, Leonardo’s Aircraft Division Managing Director, confirms the commitment of the four European States and Industrial partners to jointly develop a sovereign solution for European Defence and Security.
The unveiling of the full scale model and the reaffirmed commitment comes after a nearly two-year definition study launched in September 2016 by the four participating nations Germany, France, Italy and Spain and follows the Declaration of Intent to work together on a European MALE unmanned aerial system signed by the countries in May 2015.
Apr 30, 2018
Cargospeed: How 1000 km/h Hyperloop technology could supercharge freight delivery
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: transportation
The people-moving potential of a Hyperloop rightly generates a lot of the buzz, after all we are talking about fizzing passengers through low-vacuum tubes at close to the speed of sound. But what about its capacity to moves goods with new levels of efficiency? Richard Branson’s Virgin Hyperloop One has just introduced a new service called Cargospeed that, if it gets up and running, is promised to deliver cargo with airline-like speeds at trucking-like costs.
Apr 29, 2018
Scientists shocked as NASA cuts only moon rover
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, space, transportation
As i said the other day on here. No money for science. Plenty of money for war war war. And, the knucklehead public is out zonked out to whatever mindless BS they screwing off with this minute.
In a move that shocked lunar scientists, NASA has cancelled the only robotic vehicle under development to explore the surface of the Moon, despite President Donald Trump’s vow to return people there.
Scientists working on the Resource Prospector (RP) mission, a robotic rover that had been in development for about a decade to explore a polar region of the Moon, expressed astonishment at the decision.
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Apr 27, 2018
Inside a Hyperloop Pod With First-Class Seats, Mood Lighting
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: transportation
Virgin Hyperloop One in partnership with BMW’s design group released pictures of the interior of a pod that could be used to transport passengers in the UAE.