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Dreamers and aviation geeks have been fascinated by the idea of a flying car ever since humans first got off the ground with powered flight. There are obvious advantages to the concept: the “go anywhere, anytime” freedom of an automobile without any of the traffic congestion that terrestrial drivers face on a daily basis. (Photos)
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Urbee
While major car manufacturers are exploring 3D printing for prototyping car parts, it’s inevitable that a road-worthy 3D printed car is not too far into the future. Thanks to KOR EcoLogic the future of 3D printed cars could arrive soon. KorEcoLogic has teamed with Stratasys’s RedEye On Demand 3D printing business unit to fabricate a lightweight electric car that could take to the streets in about two years.
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Hyundai’s E4U personal mobility vehicle
At the Seoul Motor Show this year, Hyundai, the Korean automaker, unveiled the E4U. The E4U is a personal mobility vehicle that moves around using a rotating semisphere instead of wheels.
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Do you think driverless cars will operate in the real world? Several manufacturers are now in a race to build the world’s first driverless car. It appears that Google currently has the highest chance of developing the technology and software to make this a reality.
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America’s Independent Electric Light and Power Companies magazine ad from 1957.
A 1957 ad shows a family playing a game in their car as it cruises down a highway, its steering wheel unattended. “One day your car may speed along an electric super- highway, its speed and steering automatically controlled by electronic devices embedded in the road,” reads the copy. “Highways will be made safe — by electricity! No traffic jams … no collisions … no driver fatigue.”
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American military drones engaged in combat across the world are certainly scary most days. But some days, swarms of little drones are scarier. Then there are days where it’s drones with really high-resolution cameras. Or maybe drones deployed by Homeland Security.
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Google is the leader in the arena of autonomous vehicles(AVs).
Driverless cars are coming much sooner than you think. Cars that drive themselves are set to transform the way society gets from point A to point B.
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The Urbee – a 3D printed car.
This is 2013, and you probably won’t be surprised to hear that someone was using 3D printers to make a car. In this case, the car is the Urbee, a tiny three=wheeled economy car with an electric motor, internal combustion engine, and a 3D printed frame.
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Jeremy Clarkson, host of the BBC show Top Gear, unveils the world’s tiniest car, the P45, which he apparently designed himself. A takeoff on the Peel P50, the P45 has the drive train of a four-wheel all-terrain vehicle, but all the turn signals, lights, and license plates needed to make it street-legal in the United Kingdom. With a helmet for a roof, a visor for a windshield, and no side doors, the contraption calls to mind a Cozy Coupe crossed with a LEGO spaceman, and turns out to be only slightly more roadworthy.
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Audi has became the second company (Google was first) to be licensed to run autonomous vehicles in Nevada. As seen at an exhibition of the tech from its Electronic Research Laboratory, its cars are already well on their way to ditching the driver.
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The black boxes will be able to record all sorts of information about a vehicle.
The National Transportation Safety Agency is proposing that all new automobiles sold in the US after September of 2014 will be required to be equipped with event data recorders. The recorders are somewhat like the black boxes that are found inside aircraft.
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BYD remote controlled car
All eyes have been on Google and it’s self-driving car prototype. But while that has been happening, a Chinese electric car maker BYD has released a vehicle that already drives itself, sometimes.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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