Future research projects include optimized routing, road hazard reporting, optimized de-icing, beacon for at-risk pedestrians, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication to enhance rear signaling. Someday, your auto and the roadway will be in constant communication and able [...]
Will people embrace the futuristic design enough to make the startup a success? The Lit C-1 doesn’t look like any car you’ve ever seen, but it still can go 120 miles per hour and gets [...]
The system is designed primarily to help the driver (and car) avoid collisions in circumstances where braking alone won’t be sufficient. In the same way that we didn’t go straight from landline phones to smartphones, [...]
Rail built America in the 19th century and now it may be poised for a massive resurgence in the 21st century as high fuel prices make it competitive again It just may be a hunger [...]
A liquid-nitrogen car is likely to be considerably cheaper to build than an electric vehicle A COUPLE of dozen electric cars with fuel cells under the bonnet (in place of the more usual flat-pack of [...]
Google co-founder Sergey Brin believes that “self-driving cars will be far safer than human-driven cars” but who trusts them enough to drive in them or even alongside them? Drivers will not need a driving licence [...]
Folding bicycles are a great idea, in theory. In practice, they often provide a poor riding experience and can be a hassle to stow away. Budapest-based designer Simon Hukaya believes he’s solved both these issues [...]
Elon Musk is nothing if not ambitious. The billionaire tech entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal in 1998 and sits at the forefront of a whole bevvy of industries as the CEO of both electric car manufacturer [...]
New cars and trucks could improve fuel efficiency by 50 percent if existing technologies such as hybrids are adopted Fuel efficiency of new vehicles could improve by 50 percent in the next two decades and [...]
Until there’s some huge revolution in battery technology, electric vehicles are destined to remain as urban runabouts, never going out on long highway trips … right? Well, not if Germany’s ebuggy project has anything to [...]
Volvo says that it could have a system capable of operating on conventional highways with mixed traffic within ten years The SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project that first hit the road in 2011 before [...]
If there’s one thing that truck drivers don’t want their articulated tractor/trailer rigs to do, it’s jack-knifing. This typically occurs when the tractor skids on the road, and the momentum of the trailer causes it [...]