Archive for the ‘transportation’ category: Page 497
Aug 18, 2017
The surprising reason Toyota just patented a ‘cloaking device’
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: transportation
Aug 17, 2017
Life or Death: Will Robo-Cars Swerve for Squirrels?
Posted by Johnny Boston in categories: automation, driverless cars, drones, electronics, ethics, fun, humor, media & arts, robotics/AI, transportation
Self Driving Cars and Ethics. It’s a topic that has been debated in blogs, op-eds, academic research papers, and youtube videos. Everyone wants to know, if a self-driving car has to choose between sacrificing its occupant, or terminating a car full of nobel prize winners, who will it pick? Will it be programmed to sacrifice for the greater good, or protect itself — and its occupants — at all costs? But in the swirl of hypothetical discussion around jaywalking Grandmas, buses full of school-children, Kantian Ethics and cost-maps, one crucial question is being forgotten:
What about the Squirrels?
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Aug 16, 2017
Building on recent breakthroughs in autonomous cyber systems and formal methods, DARPA today announced a new research program called Assured Autonomy that aims to advance the ways computing systems can learn and evolve to better manage variations in the environment and enhance the predictability of autonomous systems like driverless vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
In the course of Assured Autonomy program, researchers will aim to develop tools that provide foundational evidence that a system can satisfy explicitly stated functional and safety goals, resulting in a measure of assurance that can also evolve with the system.
Learn more about the Assured Autonomy program: http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-08-16
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Aug 13, 2017
DeLorean (Aerospace) Is Making a Flying Car That Really Won’t Need Roads
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: transportation
Aug 9, 2017
Volvo Trucks Emergency Brake Even In A Curve
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Aug 9, 2017
This is the world’s fastest electric hypercar
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: sustainability, transportation
Aug 9, 2017
Jaguar’s fancy, new, all-electric SUV could be giving Tesla something to worry about
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: sustainability, transportation
Aug 9, 2017
These students just drove around the world on custom-built electric motorcycles
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Aug 9, 2017
The new Nissan Pathfinder will honk if you try to leave your kids in a hot car
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: electronics, transportation
Let’s face it: people are awful. They’re stupid and forgetful and do terrible things like leave pets and children in hot cars. Safety experts say that an average of 37 children die in locked vehicles every year. And while there is no obvious solution to this particular aspect of humanity’s chronic wretchedness, there are some new safety features coming out soon that can hopefully help prevent these types of tragedies from happening.
Starting in 2018, the new Nissan Pathfinder will include sensors that can detect when the rear door is opened before a trip, so that if the driver neglects to open the rear door again after the car in parked, the horn will beep several times as a reminder. That way, drivers wouldn’t get more than a few steps away before being reminded to give the backseat a quick check. The new system will also display an alert on the instrument cluster behind the steering wheel, so the driver gets a reminder even before he or she leaves the vehicle.
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