Sep 3, 2015
NASA and the Makers of the Hoverboard Are Bringing You Tractor Beams
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: space, transportation
The now-famous hoverboard company will work over the next few years to tug NASA’s tiny satellites.
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Sep 3, 2015
V1.0: A Network Edition is here!
Posted by Matthew Holt in categories: energy, neuroscience, transportation
The brain of a honey bee uses about ~0.1mW of power. While the brain of a self driving car ~100W. That’s a power factor of about one million. We’ve got a very long way to go.
V1.0: A Network Edition is here! http://ow.ly/RAI4k.
Sep 3, 2015
This 11-Foot Robot Transformer Becomes a 40-Mph Car
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Sep 1, 2015
Self-Driving Cars Could Destroy Fine-Based City Government. What’s the Downside?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Sep 1, 2015
Tesla Model S covers 452 miles on a single charge
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: sustainability, transportation
A Tesla Model S has reportedly been driven 452.8 miles (728.7 km) on a single charge in a feat that, according to driver Bjørn Nyland and the World Record Academy, sets a new world record for an electric production car.
Aug 30, 2015
Racing Real Car in Virtual Reality — Castrol Edge & Video Games tech
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, transportation, virtual reality
Castrol Edge & Video Games technologies: Racing a Real Car in Virtual Reality.
Castrol EDGE has premiered its latest Titanium Trial driving challenge, featuring Formula Drift professional Matt Powers driving his Roush Stage 3 Mustang whilst wearing a state-of-the-art Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 headset: blind to the real world around him, but fully-immersed in a rapidly changing 3D virtual world.
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Aug 30, 2015
Concept Video: Your Next Plane Could Take Off Vertically
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Aug 27, 2015
US pushes pedal on car-to-car communication
Posted by Early Boykins III in category: transportation
V2V communication is a viable way to mitigate accidents amongst autonomous vehicles.
Engineers have known for some time that if cars could only “talk” to each other, they could avoid a lot of accidents.
Vehicles could be driven more safely with information about another car, obstacle or pedestrian around a blind curve, for example.
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Aug 19, 2015
This Startup Is Developing an Electric Car Battery That Can Charge in Minutes
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, transportation
Aug 18, 2015
Going solid-state could make batteries safer and longer-lasting
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, transportation
If you pry open one of today’s ubiquitous high-tech devices—whether a cellphone, a laptop, or an electric car—you’ll find that batteries take up most of the space inside. Indeed, the recent evolution of batteries has made it possible to pack ample power in small places.
But people still always want their devices to last even longer, or go further on a charge, so researchers work night and day to boost the power a given size battery can hold. Rare, but widely publicized, incidents of overheating or combustion in lithium-ion batteries have also highlighted the importance of safety in battery technology.
Now researchers at MIT and Samsung, and in California and Maryland, have developed a new approach to one of the three basic components of batteries, the electrolyte. The new findings are based on the idea that a solid electrolyte, rather than the liquid used in today’s most common rechargeables, could greatly improve both device lifetime and safety—while providing a significant boost in the amount of power stored in a given space.
