Invention could avert disaster on railroad crossings
The damsel in distress, tied up and left on the railroad tracks, is one of the oldest and most clichéd cinema tropes.
Engineering
Sep 28, 2017
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Intelligent algorithm finds available carsharing vehicles
A new program will make it easier to combine different modes of transport. Siemens is developing a service for predicting the availability of carsharing vehicles at a given location at specific times. The forecasting tool ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 22, 2015
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GM wants tough punishment in hybrid secrets theft
General Motors Co. wants a long prison sentence next week for a former employee and her husband who were convicted of stealing hybrid vehicle technology for potential use by competitors in China. Trade secrets were found ...
Business
Apr 26, 2013
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Driverless car concept gains traction at CES
Automakers and technology firms are jumping on the bandwagon of the driverless car, which remains a concept as well as a platform for new technologies to improve safety on the road.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 9, 2013
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Electric vehicles: How we get there
During the State of the Union address, President Obama reiterated a goal that surely set the hearts of electric car makers revving.
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 15, 2011
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'Sense-ational' invention helps underwater vessels navigate with ease
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) scientists have invented a 'sense-ational' device, similar to a string of 'feelers' found on the bodies of the Blind Cave Fish, which enables the fish to sense their surrounding and ...
Engineering
Dec 12, 2012
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Students use smartphone technology to make driverless car more of reality (w/ Video)
Griffith University students are using smartphone technology to make the driverless car of the future more of a reality. A team of Information and Communications Technology students from the Gold Coast campus has won an award ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 10, 2013
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Kick-starting Europe's electric vehicle industry
Electric vehicles (e-vehicles, or EVs) are set to play a key role in the future of urban mobility, reducing pollution, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels and saving drivers money. Although e-vehicles make up only a tiny ...
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 2, 2013
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Astrobotic Technology assembles prototype of lunar water-prospecting robot
Astrobotic Technology Inc. has completed assembly of a full-size prototype of Polaris, a solar-powered robot that will search for potentially rich deposits of water ice at the moon's poles. The first of its kind, Polaris ...
Space Exploration
Oct 9, 2012
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Aerial surveillance technology could keep soldiers safer
New technology that enables aerial vehicles to plan and verify missions could mean there is less need for military personnel to conduct dangerous surveillance operations in war zones.
Engineering
Mar 2, 2010
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