Engineering
At a traffic light, red means stop and green means go. But transportation engineers at North Carolina State University are now proposing a "white light," which would enable autonomous vehicles to help control traffic flow—and ...
Feb 7, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
With its high-carbon footprint, air travel challenges the goal set by many countries of stabilizing global mean temperature by the middle of the 21st century. The aviation sector could achieve net-zero carbon emissions by ...
Feb 7, 2023
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Software
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed autonomous driving software which distributes risk on the street in a fair manner. The algorithm contained in the software is considered to be the first ...
Feb 3, 2023
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Engineering
Researchers from EPFL and JTEKT Corporation have developed an automated driving system based on the concept of "collaborative steering," which aims to increase transportation safety, efficiency, and comfort by encouraging ...
Jan 31, 2023
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Business
As electric vehicles continues to speed ahead in the market, a new study from the University of Maryland's Center for Global Sustainability (CGS) found that homebuyers are willing to pay a premium in areas where it's easy ...
Jan 30, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The Virginia Tech Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety (CVeSS) and the Railway Technologies Laboratory want to harness the energy created by moving trains and transform that energy into usable electricity.
Jan 25, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Nuclear and hydrogen could be the ideal fuel for recharging electric trucks, opening potential markets for developers of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs).
Jan 17, 2023
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Despite only about 25% of car travel happening after dark, almost half of fatal accidents occur at night. As our vehicles become more advanced and even autonomous, the ways of detecting and avoiding these collisions must ...
Jan 17, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
In the future, the energy needed to run the powerful computers on board a global fleet of autonomous vehicles could generate as many greenhouse gas emissions as all the data centers in the world today.
Jan 12, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A University of Central Florida researcher has developed technology that could prevent electric vehicle fires, like those caused by saltwater flooding from Hurricane Ian.
Jan 10, 2023
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