Archive for the ‘transportation’ category: Page 500
Apr 29, 2017
The Flying Taxi That Saves People from Danger
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Apr 29, 2017
Cars will be lowered into the tunnel from the roads on a car “skate.”
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Apr 28, 2017
Elon Musk teases Tesla electric semi truck, up to 4 new Gigafactory locations
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
Elon Musk was on stage at the 2017 TED Conference in Vancouver on Friday, and he revealed some of his tunnel work and aspirations, but he also talked about a few ongoing Tesla projects he’s referenced before. The multi-CEO showed a shadowy image that gives us our first look at what his forthcoming electric Semi Truck will look like, and also let drop the suggestion that Tesla will likely announce four new global Gigafactory locations sometime this year.
Elon Musk teased semi-truck at TED talk. pic.twitter.com/sY0w7KSsTx
Apr 28, 2017
Here’s the first look at how Elon Musk’s ‘boring’ car tunnels will work
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: Elon Musk, transportation
Apr 26, 2017
Uber looks to soar with flying taxis by 2020
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: transportation
N” After upending the taxi market with its ride-hailing service, Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] is now aiming for the skies with its flying taxis.
The company expects to deploy its flying taxis in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and Dubai by 2020, Chief Product Officer Jeff Holden said at the Uber Elevate Summit in Dallas on Tuesday.
Uber’s flying taxis will be small, electric aircraft that take off and land vertically, or VTOLs, with zero emissions and quiet enough to operate in cities.
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Apr 25, 2017
Here’s what Uber’s air taxis may look like
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: transportation
Back in November, we heard about Uber’s plans to add flying-car-like air taxis to its existing transport system. At the time, it wasn’t clear just what form those vehicles would take. This Tuesday, however, the company announced that it has selected Virginia-based Aurora Flight Sciences as a partner to develop an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for its Uber Elevate Network – and a functioning model of it has already been flown.
The concept combines technologies from several other projects that Aurora has been working on.
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Apr 24, 2017
Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk announces ultralight aircraft you don’t need a license to fly
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
The fledgling “flying car” industry just received a major boost as Google cofounder Larry Page officially launched his new startup out of stealth.
Founded in 2015, Kitty Hawk has been known to exist for some time already, but we’ve hitherto had no real idea about what it was all about — beyond it having something to do with flying cars. But earlier this morning, company CEO Sebastian Thrun, who once headed up Google’s self-driving car efforts and later went on to found online learning platform Udacity, tweeted out a link to the company’s website and Twitter page. Kitty Hawk’s website now offers some clue as to what we can expect.
Apr 23, 2017
Rockstar is not happy about driverless cars learning from ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ without permission
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
I remember posting that video in here a few months ago. Some lab in California was testing their AI’s to drive cars in the game. I wish they’d let them goof around in Multiplayer it would be interesting to mess with one. How would it re act if it got attacked, if a random person hopped in a car and started playing with the radio or other weird stuff.
By Tina Amini 2017/04/21 17:23:46 UTC
