Flying Robot Taxis Coming To Vegas (video inside)
Chinese manufacturer EHang has been granted permission to conduct testing for its people-carrying autonomous drone in Las Vegas.
The EHang 184 was unveiled at...
Russia Eyeing Its Own Hyperloop
They Hyperloop hasn’t arrived yet, but already some international officials are eyeing up the prize. Elon Musk’s futuristic transport system is promising to revolutionise...
New, U.S Greener Stealth Bikes
The US Military’s new motorbikes are quiet - deadly quiet. In 2014, the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a competition to...
This Is The Aircraft For Everyday Life
A German startup is hoping to solve the problem of congestion in an exciting and novel way. They’re working on a vertical takeoff and...
Volvo: Tesla’s Autopilot “An Unsupervised Wannabe”
With the competition in the self-driving car world heating up, a Volvo engineer just fired shots at Tesla.
Tesla has released its Autopilot system...
Germany To Add Self-Driving Cars To Train Service
Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s railway operator, is looking to add self-driving cars to its mass-transit network. The company’s goal is to add service in the...
DHS To Test Bioterror Airflow in New York Subway
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) will conduct a week-long airflow study, starting today, in portions of the New...
WATCH: DAVE2 – Nvidia’s Self-Driving Car
Network World brings us news of an electric car that teaches itself to see and steer. An engineering team at Nvidia - known primarily...
WATCH: Autonomous Trucks Drive Across Europe
A fleet of trucks drove across Europe at the beginning of April. This wouldn’t be frontpage news if it weren’t for the fact that...
Are We Overdependent On GPS
Satellite expert Roger McKinley warns that “we've become overdependent” on GPS, in an interview with Vox. The former president of the Royal Institute of...
DARPA’s Spaceplane Could Soon Launch
The space race is heating up again in recent years, but this time it’s not major world powers that are competing against each other,...
India Uses Drones To Inspect Mega-Rail Project Progress
India is putting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to good use for an ambitious project. Indian Railway has been using UAVs to inspect the construction...
Crewless Drone Ships Will Ply The Seas By 2020
Rolls-Royce is predicting that in just four years, crewless “drone ships” will be sailing the seas with no crew on board. The aircraft engine...
Driverless Taxis Are Coming To Singapore
Singapore may be getting the world’s first driverless taxis quite soon, if all goes to plan. NuTonomy is an MIT-born startup that has its...
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By Arie Egozi
The government in Israel is responsible for citizens’ death on the road every passing day. This government, and mostly in this context,...
GPS Is About To Become Much, Much More Accurate
GPS will be turning 40 in a couple years, and in the decades since its inception the technology has transformed our lives. Many users...
Ford Working On Autonomous Driving In Snow Conditions
The recent collision between the Google Car and a Californian bus notwithstanding, autonomous vehicle generally manage to get around quite well. They “see” the...
Lockheed Martin’s New Airship Can Land On Anything
What do you do when you’ve got an aircraft and payloads to deliver, but the receiving end hasn’t the infrastructure, say - roads, to...
Big Data Is Crucial For Smart Cities
By now, Smart Cities seem almost an inevitability. With more and more cities implementing city projects to modernise interactions between governments, citizens, and the...
Watch: A Truck to Make Even Tanks Jealous
If you’re having trouble getting to work through the rough terrain outside your house, or if you just want a truck that can go...
Could This Be the Future of Transportation?
Student engineers at MIT have won a competition to make Elon Musk’s (of Tesla Motors and SpaceX fame) idea for a Hyperloop that moves...
US Government pledges nearly $4 billion to kickstart self-driving cars
US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx revealed plans for a six month initiative to prepare for a world of autonomous vehicles, as well as...
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