Archive for the ‘transportation’ category: Page 593
Dec 7, 2015
Drivers Race In Virtual Reality Using Real Cars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: transportation, virtual reality
We hear about virtual reality all the time, but what if your driving in *real life* actually controlled a virtual car? http://voc.tv/1P6L9zh
Dec 6, 2015
Beyond ‘Back to the Future’: Experts Serve Up Tech Predictions for 2045
Posted by Alexandros El in categories: drones, electronics, transportation
Just How Much Did ‘Back to the Future’ Get Right about October 2015? 2:19.
In “Back to the Future Part II,” Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel from 1985 to October 21, 2015, to find a world filled with flying cars, hoverboards and self-drying jackets.
Those predictions didn’t exactly pan out, although people are working on each of those concepts. (Screenwriter Bob Gale did get a lot of things — from drones to fingerprint scanners — right, as he told TODAY earlier this year.)
Dec 5, 2015
This Waterproof Quadcopter Is Also a Submarine
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Dec 5, 2015
Fastest Charging Electric Bus Charges In 10 Seconds In
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
The world’s fastest charging electric bus is now operating in the eastern Chinese port city of Ningbo.
According to local transportation authorities, the public bus — which was manufactured in Ningbo and runs along a 24-stop, 11 kilometre route — takes as little as 10 seconds to charge up and be ready for the next leg of its journey.
Dec 4, 2015
20 Million Driverless Cars May Be On The Road By 2025
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Nov 30, 2015
See The Amazon Drone That Will Deliver In 30 Minutes Or Less
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: drones, transportation
Amazon says drones can deliver packages weighing up to 5 pounds within 30 minutes.
“In time, there will be a whole family of Amazon drones,” says narrator Jeremy Clarkson, the former BBC “Top Gear” cohost who is working on a similar show for Amazon. “Different designs for different environments.”
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Nov 29, 2015
LG pumps $8.7bn into OLED for your car, TV and wrist
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: electronics, energy, transportation
LG really, really wants your next TV, smartwatch, and car to use an OLED panel and, preferably, one that’s come off its new $8.71bn production line. The company’s panel arm, LG Display, has announced a whopping 1.84 trillion South Korean Won investment into a brand new facility dubbed P10, which will cater for what LG predicts will be blockbuster demand for OLED in a range of sizes.
That $8.71bn is only the tip of the iceberg, mind, and the plant — to be constructed in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, Korea — is expected to eventually cost more than five times that amount.
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Nov 29, 2015
Tesla wants to make fully self-driving cars happen way ahead of schedule
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
A week and a half ago, we learned that Tesla is on a quest to hire more engineers to accelerate the development of its self-driving car technologies.
Tesla was already no slouch in the autonomous-vehicle world, having released its Autopilot feature into the wild just over a month ago.
We sampled Autopilot as soon as it hit the streets and were quite impressed, to put it mildly.
