Laser attack blinds autonomous vehicles, deleting pedestrians and confusing cars
Self-driving cars, like the human drivers that preceded them, need to see what's around them to avoid obstacles and drive safely.
Oct 31, 2022
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Self-driving cars, like the human drivers that preceded them, need to see what's around them to avoid obstacles and drive safely.
Oct 31, 2022
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Engineering
People use their eyes and ears to pick up on traffic situations involving potential hazards. For self-driving vehicles to do the same thing, they need a whole host of sensors. As the number of sensors they contain increases, ...
Oct 4, 2022
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Engineering
A study of different solar cooker designs has alighted on the optimal form and structure, which can be constructed or bought in the developing world. The most efficient available design meshes well with mathematical models ...
Jul 15, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
A team of computer scientists from Saarland University has used an innovative design approach to critically question new sensory technologies that have become part of everyday life.
Apr 14, 2021
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Internet
The average daily time spent online by adults increased by nearly an hour during the UK's spring lockdown when compared to the previous year, according to communications regulator Ofcom. With numerous countries back under ...
Jan 11, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A joint research team led by Asst. Prof. Jihui Yuan at the Dept. of Architecture and Civil Eng. of Toyohashi University of Technology, in collaboration with Osaka City University, has proposed two analytical models to evaluate ...
Oct 29, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
For the first time, researchers in Germany sent perovskite and organic solar cells on a rocket into space. The solar cells withstood the extreme conditions in space, producing power from direct sunlight and reflective light ...
Aug 12, 2020
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Engineering
Large telescopes that could be used for detecting and analyzing Earth-like planets in orbit around other stars or for peering back in time to observe the very early universe may not necessarily have to be built and assembled ...
May 8, 2020
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