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A few years ago, a public transit concept from China was making the rounds. It has resurfaced recently in a video that suggests someone is taking it seriously.
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Tesla could be joining a number of companies who say they will create their own fully autonomous cars.
Tesla is searching for an autonomous driving engineer, someone who will likely bring some of those great hands-free features to its electric carsin the future. They put out a call for applicants on its careers page for an “Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Control Engineer,” or ADAS. The applicant will perform a research role, looking at how to add autonomous features and working with the “firmware team” to actually put this research into action.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: In 1997, IBM staged a history-making competition between World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov and their own chess-playing computer, Deep Blue.
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Public fast charging as a vital step in the acceptance of electric vehicles.
According to a new study, struggling to find a rapid charging station for your electric car could be a thing of the past by 2020. The number of quick chargers worldwide will increase by one hundred times that of today.
Continue reading… “Number of electric fast-charging stations will reach 199,000 by 2020”
Tube transportation is the future of transportation.
You shouldn’t give up on flying cars or hoverboards just yet. As technology continues to march on, everything will go into development sooner or later—as demonstrated by the existence of these things, which we’ll almost certainly see within our lifetimes.
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Dashboards have played an integral role in how we interact with our cars, at least since the 1980’s. The switches, knobs and dedicated displays housed below (and sometimes on) our windshields keep us tuned in to the world around us. (Pics)
Continue reading… “World’s first car with voice-activated LED projection dashboard”
Daryl Oster, CEO for Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies.
Elon Musk is a brilliant, big-thinking, subtly accented, physicist turned financing pioneer turned engineer, self-made billionaire who has led the design of revolutionary cars and rockets and he needs no introduction. Musk unveiled his idea for a next-generation transportation system on August 12th, and it got the attention of about every news organization between Earth and Mars, where Musk hopes to aim his rockets one day.
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Uber has committed to invest up to $375 million for a fleet of Google’s GX3200 vehicles.
News from the Future – July 25, 2023: The local transportation and delivery giant, Uber, has announced as part of its second quarter earnings, saying it would buy 2,500 driverless cars from Google. The two companies have agreed to a deal in which Uber will share data from its local transportation services with Google, which will use it to further improve its own autonomous car-routing algorithms.
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The Navia is a fully autonomous eight-seat shuttle.
Automakers are working tirelessly in the U.S. to get autonomous cars on roadways. We could even see the infamous driverless Audi TT hit showrooms as soon as 2015. But by 2015 driverless vehicles just might be old-hat — at least in Singapore. (Video)
Continue reading… “The Navia – a driverless vehicle that will debut on Singapore roadways”
Martin Aircraft jetpack
Martin Aircraft claims it will have a jetpack ready for sale starting next year. NPR talked with Martin Aircraft CEO Peter Coker to get the details on the jetpack, which is expected to fly as high as 8,000 feet and hit ground speeds of 35 miles per hour. Unfortunately, it’s a bit big to call a pack and it’s not technically a jet, but let’s not bother ourselves with semantics when the future is at our doorstep. (Video)
Continue reading… “Martin Aircraft commercial jetpack is scheduled to arrive in 2014”
Horizon
Students at the University of Glasgow have come up with a radical idea for cutting journey times in 2050 – aircraft that collect and drop-off passengers in moving pod-like carriages. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Horizon Mass Transit System: Planes that can pick up trains”
Hyperloop
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla announced about a year ago his idea of a “fifth mode of transportation” called the Hyperloop. Since then the founder he has been constantly peppered with questions about how the system works and when he might reveal his plan for such an invention. Musk has finally revealed his plan for the Hyperloop, complete with illustrations, technical explanations, financial hurdles, and even a potential first route. (Pics)
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