Archive for the ‘transportation’ category: Page 566
Nov 17, 2015
The largest airplane ever built has a wingspan that’s nearly the length of a football field
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Nov 17, 2015
This drivable car was just 3D printed in 44 hours
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, transportation
Nov 17, 2015
Airbus Envisions Transparent Airplane Cabin Walls in Future
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: business, internet, transportation
Transparent walls and customized cabins may be ahead, according to Airbus.
If you think in-flight Wi-Fi and lie-flat seats are cutting edge, just wait until 2050. That’s when aircraft cabins will feature holographic pop-up gaming displays and seats that adjust to each passenger’s size and shape, according to Airbus. In its vision for the future, Airbus predicts that the cabin walls of planes will be transparent, providing amazing views of the earth. Those with vertigo could block the view with an opaque hologram around their seat. Themed zones will replace first, business and economy classes, so individuals could choose areas in which to relax, play games, interact with other passengers or hold business meetings with people on the ground. This could even top the flying car.
Nov 17, 2015
The beauty of bikes — redesigning two wheels — By Rowan Moore | The Guardian
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: environmental, media & arts, transportation
“For bicycles are messengers. Picasso recognised that they carry meaning when he made a saddle and handlebars into a bull’s head, and Duchamp (in his case, non-meaning) when he put a bicycle wheel in an art gallery.”
Nov 16, 2015
These wheels can take you in any direction without turning
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Ugh, this is just typical. You think you know the way the world works: wind blows, fire burns, wheels spin and – wait, what’s this thing doing?
What? You mean, it can actually move in any direction without so much as turning on an axis? That’s blowing my mind. I’m no gear head, but I’m sort of attached to having a steering wheel in my car, you know? Now you’re saying that self-driving cars will take those away, and now there won’t even be wheels to turn in the direction you want to go in?
Nov 16, 2015
Self-driving cars may become a mass reality faster than you think
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
“Just a few years ago, automated parking was a revolutionary new technology — now it comes as a standard option in some production models. This is how I believe driverless vehicles will come to be accepted in the future,” says Wei-Bin Zhang, IEEE fellow and a researcher engineer at the California PATH program, Institute of Transportation Studies of University of California at Berkeley.
That’s right — we may be on the brink of an all-out self-driving car revolution.
We’ve already seen cars that can stay in their lanes and apply the breaks by themselves, so to many, an autonomous car is just the next step in the natural progression. And the automotive industry is taking this very seriously. According to a study by Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), the self-driving market is estimated to grow to $33.89 billion in the next five years.
Nov 15, 2015
Tesla Now Faces a Billionaire-Backed Competitor Staffed by Its Former Engineers
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Nov 14, 2015
Self-parallel parking car
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Mitsubishi Self-Driving Car
This new Mitsubishi self-driving car is so advanced it can parallel park itself.
Nov 14, 2015
Nissan wants to bring wireless charging technology to electric cars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Electric car owners get to enjoy a certain level of pride in saying that they never have to deal with gas stations and dirty fuel-filler nozzles.
Most of those owners would likely agree that not having to deal with cords and charging ports would be another great step forward, however.
Soon, if Nissan and several other automakers have their way, that day will come, as wireless (inductive) charging systems and smart charging controls will take away that “hands on” obligation—provided you park in designated charging spots.
