Automotive
Two new U.S. studies show that automatic emergency braking can cut the number of rear-end automobile crashes in half, and reduce pickup truck crashes by more than 40%.
Nov 15, 2022
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Business
The chief executive officer of Zoox, Amazon.com Inc.'s self-driving unit, expects autonomous vehicles to be present in cities "sooner than people expect," but stopped short of saying when her own company's product would appear ...
Sep 28, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Love them or hate them, new mobility devices like e-bikes are here to stay.
Jun 2, 2022
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Automotive
Humans may be one of the biggest roadblocks keeping fully autonomous vehicles off city streets.
Apr 20, 2022
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Engineering
Researchers at the University of Agder (UiA) conducted two full-scale crash tests at Farsund Airport Lista in December 2021. Preliminary findings show that vehicles that have been incorrectly repaired after a collision may ...
Apr 20, 2022
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Other
Dr. Joey Iuliano of the University of Arizona, a 2020 NITC dissertation fellow who earned his Ph.D. in 2021, has published a journal article in the March 2022 issue of Cogent Social Sciences: Where and how Tucsonans ride ...
Apr 8, 2022
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Security
Government action is needed so driverless vehicles can be insured against malicious hacks which could have potentially catastrophic consequences, a study says.
Nov 3, 2021
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Robotics
Giving autonomous vehicles the 'green light' to break road rules is tackled in a new research in Ethics and Information Technology.
Oct 28, 2021
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Engineering
Roadside construction—be it a detour, a closed lane, or a slow weave past workers and equipment—work zones impact traffic flow and travel times on a system-wide level. The ability to predict exactly what those impacts ...
Sep 9, 2021
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Automotive
Replacing cars that run on fossil fuels with electric cars will be important in meeting climate goals—road transport produces more than 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But there are obstacles to wider uptake, particularly ...
Feb 8, 2021
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