Self-driving cars could mean a lot of free time for drivers.
We won’t have to drive soon, so what’re we going to do in cars? Nissan has an answer: http://voc.tv/1P6L9zh
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Rimac — Electric Concept One Super Car 1088hp
Specifications:
Performance Power output: 1088 hp Torque: 1600 Nm from 0 to 6500 rpm Acceleration: 0–100 km/h (0−62 mph) 2,8 seconds Range: up to 600 km (realistic range — 500 km) Braking distance: 31.5m (100−0 km/h) Lateral g-force: 1.4 g Efficiency: 140–550 Wh/km 40 kW on-board charging 100 kW fast DC-charging Weight-to-power ratio: 1.79 kg/hp Weight distribution: 42% front, 58% rear
Dimensions Total length: 4548 mm Total width: 1997 mm Total height: 1198 mm Ground clearance: Rear: 115 mm, Front: 105 mm Wheelbase: 2750 mm. Dry weight: 1950 kg
Battery-Pack Lithium-Iron-Phosphate (LiFePO4) chemistry Configuration: 1400 cells — 200 series, 7 parallel Voltage: 650V nominal Capacity: 91 kWh Cooling: Freon (gas) with high-voltage heat pumps Milled aluminum and sheet aluminum housing Rimac Automobili Active Battery and Thermal Management Systems Several layers of redundant safety and protection systems.
Chassis Carbon fibre monocoque with integrated battery-pack Carbon fibre sub-frames (front and rear) Carbon fibre crash structure Front and rear suspension: Double wishbones, fully adjustable, pushrod operated. Electronically adjustable ride height. Fully machined aluminum uprights and wishbones.
This hoverboard costs $20,000 and can fly for six minutes
2015 was literally and figuratively the year of the hoverboard. While everyone was talking about the self-balancing scooters, two companies showed off skateboard-shaped boards that actually hovered a few inches above the Earth: Lexus with the “Slide” board, and Arx Pax with its second generation Hendo Hoverboard. Now, just days before the new year, another company called ArcaSpace is taking a shot at making the mythical hoverboard.
ArcaSpace is primarily a private space company, and one of the original 26 teams that competed in the Ansari X Prize competition in 2004. (It also entered the Lunar X Prize competition, too, before pulling out in 2013.) But early this morning the company released a video that shows off the “ArcaBoard,” a fan-powered rectangle that can lift a person off the ground by almost a foot.
The ArcaBoard gets its power — 430 pounds of thrust, or 272 horsepower, according to the company — from 36 electric fans. The company also says its built in some self-balancing tech to make it fly smoothly. Beyond that, though, it doesn’t look like there’s much to the experience. Dumitru Propescu, ArcaSpace’s CEO, is seen riding it in the video, but it doesn’t look like he has much control over where it’s going. It’s actually pretty reminiscent of the Hendo Hoverboard videos — sure, it hovers, but you can’t really steer it enough to ever use it to get anywhere.
The Car Tech That Could Make GPS Obsolete
Segnet
Ever wonder how exactly cars are learning to drive themselves? Well, here’s how: http://voc.tv/1P6L9zh
The Year In Car Tech
From autonomous cars to see-through semi trucks, car technology innovated at blazing speeds this year. http://voc.tv/1P6L9zh
Faraday Future: What if?
What if there was an electric car that not only helped preserve the environment — it actually made us look forward to the daily commute? What if such a car could redefine our relationship with the automobile itself? Our new short film — ‘What if?’ — explores the cleaner, better world we’re building at Faraday Future, and the big questions that drive us. http://faradayfuture.com
The Robot Cars Quietly Get Closer, The Noise They Make Will Change The World
With a reported tie-up between Google’s self-driving car efforts and the automaker Ford, the era of autonomous vehicles is getting closer. The impact is likely to shake up the balance of power in the global auto industry and among the technology elite. At stake is nothing less than trillions of dollars.
Elon Musk Says Tesla Vehicles Will Drive Themselves in Two Years
Musk opens up about autonomous vehicles, self-driving car rules, and the competition.
In Elon Musk’s world, “easy” is used to describe problems many might consider impossible—or at least very difficult to solve. Producing a fully autonomous vehicle that can operate in any condition and on any road, for example, is easy-ish. And Tesla Motors TSLA 0.91%, the all-electric automaker that Musk heads, is two years away from achieving it.
“I think we have all the pieces, and it’s just about refining those pieces, putting them in place, and making sure they work across a huge number of environments—and then we’re done,” Musk told Fortune with assuredness during his commute to SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., where he is also CEO. “It’s a much easier problem than people think it is. But it’s not like George Hotz, a one-guy-and-three-months problem. You know, it’s more like, thousands of people for two years.”
**Future Is Near**
This Audi Parks Itself, and Comes When You Call!