Energy & Green Tech
A team making up the eRoadArlanda project has announced that they have electrified a section of road near Stockholm, which will be tested by a battery-powered test truck. The team is part of an initiative set up by the Swedish ...
Engineering
Spring is here and the roads are a mess. But the days of motorists calling to report potholes may someday be a thing of the past.
Mar 27, 2018
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Hi Tech & Innovation
What was that hovering, helicopter-like, over the tarmac in Pendleton, Oregon? A flight test of sorts has transportation watchers wondering if we are looking at a significant new chapter in personal transportation, especially ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Henry Ford didn't invent the motor car. The late 1800s saw a flurry of innovation by hundreds of companies battling to deliver on the promise of fast, efficient and reasonably-priced mechanical transportation. Ford later ...
Feb 23, 2018
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Hi Tech & Innovation
A new way of detecting driver drowsiness by tracking eye movement could help reduce the road toll, a world-first study has found.
Feb 6, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Where the solar panel meets the road—China is putting a solar highway to the test. The Hindu along with a number of other sites carried reports of the photovoltaic road project The Hindu, referring to reports from Xinhua, ...
Engineering
Researchers have proposed an innovative new solution to dealing with dangerous icy roads in winter, putting forward an improved, safer method in a paper published today in Applied Spectroscopy Reviews.
Nov 30, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
(Tech Xplore)—Siemens has announced that an electrified highway demo is running on a highway stretch in the United States. Siemens and South Coast Air Quality Management District are keeping watch on the highway near two ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
(Tech Xplore)—A cyclist and driver's nightmare: A person unexpectedly walks out into the road. An inattentive pedestrian's nightmare: Breaks and fractures, if not worse, from such collisions.
Hi Tech & Innovation
What self-driving cars want, and what people want from them, varies widely. And often these desires are at odds with each other. For instance, carmakers – and the designers of the software that will run autonomous vehicles ...
Oct 3, 2017
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