Archive for the ‘transportation’ category: Page 479
Aug 3, 2017
Hyperloop Explained | Hyperloop One
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: environmental, transportation
Aug 3, 2017
Do Driverless Cars Need Their Own Roads Around Manhattan? — By Benjamin Schneider | CityLab
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
“A concept for AV expressways promises to reduce travel times, but falls into an old trap of car-centric planning.”
Aug 3, 2017
Why driverless cars might not hit the road so fast — By Scott Nyquist | LinkedIn
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: governance, government, robotics/AI, transportation
“In May, GM spent $1 billion to buy Cruise Automation, a small startup with promising self-driving software.”
Aug 3, 2017
How Hyperloop One’s System Becomes Reality | Hyperloop One
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: transportation
Aug 3, 2017
We tried Tesla’s ‘Summon’ feature — where the car comes to you
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: transportation
Aug 2, 2017
Automated valet parking is coming sooner than you think
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Aug 2, 2017
Hyperloop tests its ‘passenger pod’ in historic 310mph run
Posted by John Gallagher in category: transportation
The July 29, 2017, tests hit record test speeds traveling nearly the full distance of the 500-meter DevLoop track in the Nevada desert.
‘This is the beginning, and the dawn of a new era of transportation,’ said Shervin Pishevar, Executive Chairman and Co-founder of Hyperloop One.
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Jul 31, 2017
With the new truck, the garbage man won’t have to be constantly jumping in and out of the driver’s seat to empty trash bins
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: transportation
Jul 31, 2017
This Paint Allows Walls to Convert Heat into Electricity
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: solar power, sustainability, transportation
Paint these days is becoming much more than it used to be. Already researchers have developed photovoltaic paint, which can be used to make “paint-on solar cells” that capture the sun’s energy and turn it into electricity. Now in a new study, researchers have created thermoelectric paint, which captures the waste heat from hot painted surfaces and converts it into electrical energy.
“I expect that the thermoelectric painting technique can be applied to waste heat recovery from large-scale heat source surfaces, such as buildings, cars, and ship vessels,” Jae Sung Son, a coauthor of the study and researcher at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), told Phys.org.
“For example, the temperature of a building’s roof and walls increases to more than 50 °C in the summer,” he said. “If we apply thermoelectric paint on the walls, we can convert huge amounts of waste heat into electrical energy.”
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