Archive for the ‘transportation’ category: Page 498
Jul 29, 2017
Tech’s Most Dubious Promises, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: Elon Musk, transportation
Jul 28, 2017
One of the world’s longest electric car highways will be built in Australia
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: sustainability, transportation
Jul 28, 2017
Tonight Elon Musk delivers 30 Model 3 Teslas and things may never be the same
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
30 lucky customers will get their hands on the first Tesla Model 3 electric cars to roll off the production line. Here’s why it matters.
Jul 28, 2017
Hyperloop travel just got a step closer to reality
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Jul 27, 2017
Robot flying taxi takes its first autonomous flight
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Formerly known as the “Air Mule,” this is a flying taxi, or maybe a future unmanned ambulance.
Urban Aeronautics
Nine years ago, the Air Mule was an almost-believable concept: a flying robot taxi that could get people out of dangerous battlefields without endangering a pilot or crew. It was the exact sort of gizmo one expects from Popular Science: an amazing machine of the future, almost like a flying car, that seemed plausible but just out of reach.
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Jul 26, 2017
How facial recognition could replace train tickets
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Pay your fare using a 3D face map
Jump to media player A system designed to replace the need for tickets on trains is being tested in the UK.
Jul 26, 2017
What will the car of 2040 be like?
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: futurism, transportation
Following the announcement petrol and diesel engine cars will be banned from sale in 2040, the car of the future is up for grabs.
Jul 23, 2017
Norway Takes Lead in Race to Build Autonomous Cargo Ships
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
We are getting close to the point of a completely automated supply chain.
OSLO—Two Norwegian companies are taking the lead in the race to build the world’s first crewless, autonomously operated ship, an advance that could mark a turning point in seaborne trade.
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