Honda’s new ‘NeuV ‘autonomous car that uses artificial intelligence to generate emotions that will help stronger connection between the car and human passenger.

Posted on December 25, 2016 by

Honda's new 'NeuV 'autonomous car that uses artificial intelligence to generate emotions that will help stronger connection between the car and human passenger. Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, robotics, and big data to transform the mobility experience, Honda today announced that “Cooperative Mobility Ecosystem” will be the theme for its participation at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Honda will kick off its CES presence with an 11:00 am PST press con...

World’s first solar highway has been opened in France

Posted on December 24, 2016December 24, 2016 by

World's first solar highway has been opened in France. Wattway is a patented French innovation that is the fruit of 5 years of research undertaken by Colas, world leader in transport infrastructure, and the INES (French National Institute for Solar Energy). By combining road construction and photovoltaic techniques, Wattway pavement provides clean, renewable energy in the form of electricity, while allowing for all types of traffic. As the energy transition becomes reality, imagine a road ...

Berlin-based start-up ‘ubitricity’ makes charging electric vehicles flexible (at any public outlet)and economical

Posted on December 10, 2016 by

E-mobility challenges the tradition of stationary energy metering and billing. At present, charging stations are not available in all of the locations users need to recharge their vehicles. Additionally, until now, creating an adequate charging infrastructure for electric cars has been very costly and utilities have had few incentives to install charging stations. ubitricity allowed the Iserlohn public utility to introduce a new electric power product: the Sauerland PowerMobil. It compris...

Roav Dashtop head-up display for car is a smart driving assistant system

Posted on November 29, 2016 by

The Roav Dashtop is the complementary centerpiece of our smart driving system that uses a head-up display (HUD) to project key information the road ahead. Roav is the collection of interconnected car accessories designed to improve everyday driving. Created by the pioneering minds behind the Anker brand, Roav is all about making your drive as simple and enjoyable as possible through innovative smart gadgets. From Advanced Driver Assistance System devices to dashcams and backup cams, Roav has ...

Smartphone based Pearl RearVision is the wireless rearview camera that fits around your license plate & syncs

Posted on November 27, 2016 by

Every driver should feel the confidence a backup camera provides. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration agrees — by federal mandate, every new car sold in the US by 2018 is required be equipped with one. Backup with confidence. Clearly see what's behind your car with the only wireless backup camera and alert system of its kind: RearVision. Theft-resistant and easy-to-install, it upgrades your car and turns your phone into your rearview screen. No drilling, no wires and no professi...

Viper SmartStart – locate, lock/unlock, and remotely start vehicles with smartphone

Posted on October 20, 2016October 20, 2016 by

Start, locate and control your car from virtually anywhere with your iPhone, or Apple Watch! “Making the cloud-connected car a reality”. You can remote start or lock and unlock your car just by pushing a button on your iPhone or iPod Touch; using the exciting new Viper SmartStart app from Directed Electronics, the leader in vehicle security and remote start. The simple graphical interface gives you control over the following features of your installed Viper remote start or security/remote sta...

ParkHere, a spin-off of the Technical University of Munich has developed the first self-powered parking sensor that provides real-time data about available parking spaces

Posted on October 3, 2016 by

30 percent of traffic in cities is caused by drivers searching for a parking space. Anyone who has circled city blocks trying to find a spot can attest to how frustrating this process can be, one that not only wastes a driver's time, but also pollutes the environment unnecessarily. ParkHere, a spin-off of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), aims to make this search easier and more efficient. It has developed the first self-powered parking sensor that provides real-time data about availa...

Nissan’s new smartwatch

Posted on June 11, 2016 by

Nissan's new smartwatch that links drivers intimately with their cars, showing both driving telemetry such as speed, and driver heart rate... Nissan says the watch will be the first in an ongoing line of wearable devices for drivers. Nissan Motorsport (Nismo, for short) is the performance division of Nissan Motor Company. Wherever Nissan cars are raced professionally, Nismo engineers are responsible for the delicate tuning that delivers a track-worthy performance. Nissan Nismo Smart Wat...

Car Jump Starter Mobile Battery Charger

Posted on June 8, 2016 by

Indigi® Car Jump Starter Mobile Battery Charger Power Bank As Emergency Car Battery Booster 12800mAh Cellphone Laptop Backup Power Source Smallest, lightest, and most powerful portable 12 Volt Car Vehicle Jump Starter - Power Bank Power Source for All iPhone, iPad, iWatch, Galaxy Phone, Smartphone, Android Phone, Smartwatch, Watch Phone, Laptop, Notebook, MP3/MP4 Player, GPS, Camera and PSP so on Built-in 12800mAh power bank with 12V DC output, it features a key switch to choose...

China Developing Traffic-Straddling Bus That Drives Over Cars

Posted on May 26, 2016May 26, 2016 by

China Developing Traffic-Straddling Bus That Drives Over Cars Engineering refinement TBS China, which is a large shipping company, has now unveiled a ‘3D Fast Bus’ they’re calling ‘Land Airbus.’ This concept could actually hit the streets of China as Land Airbus presents a new generation of high-level rail transport. There was a lot of hype when the concept of a ‘3D Fast Bus’ (also called a straddling bus, straddle bus or tunnel bus) was first introduced. The idea was to make a kind of giant...

RC Flying Car

Posted on May 15, 2016 by

The RC Flying Car. This is the remote controlled vehicle that races over ground and flies in the air. Swiftly rolling forward/backward on four 1 3/4"-diam. foam-tired wheels when on the ground at 67 mph scale speed, the drone executes sharp lefts/rights from up to 130' away when issued commands from its 2.4 GHz radio remote. You can select between two ground and air speeds, based on operator experience. When an obstacle requires airborne circumnavigation, the drone responds nimbly with up/dow...

Connect your car

Posted on May 10, 2016 by

Connection from Audiovox plugs into your vehicle's OBD II port and once you register your vehicle online, it begins sharing information with you. It allows you to know how fast your son is driving, or if your daughter is using her smartphone in the vehicle, and it alerts you whenever grandpa drives outside of a predetermined safety zone. It allows you to block cellphone usage inside the car, gives you details of driver performance, fuel usage, track you vehicle and more. It improves your safet...

Microsoft’s ‘smarter cart’ that recognizes what is in the cart and it follows you in the store.

Posted on May 5, 2016 by

Microsoft has demonstrated an early prototype of a Kinect-powered shopping cart, which is being developed for Whole Foods by Texas-based company Chaotic Moon. The project is called the “Smarter Cart” and it uses a tablet and scanners to read the items you place inside, check whether they’re on your shopping list, cross them off and ring them up. The motorized cart can follow you around the store and has voice recognition and speech so you can give it instructions and it can let you know if th...

Car of tomorrow will have these new features

Posted on April 19, 2016 by

Holographic Info Displays With all this information flowing through our cars, data displays will become even more important. We know that Audi and a couple other manufacturers are working on holographic-style head-up displays. (Obi-Wan would be proud.) These color images will be projected in front of the driver and be most useful for things like 3-D maps and driving directions. We can get behind anything that has the ability to keep more eyes on the road. More use of digital gauges, in-dash d...

Intelligent Parking Assist System (IPAS)

Posted on April 19, 2016 by

Intelligent Parking Assist System (IPAS), also known as the Advanced Parking Guidance System (APGS) for Lexus models in the United States, is the first production automatic parking system developed by Toyota Motor Corporation in 1999 initially for the Japanese market hybrid Prius models and Lexus models. The technology assists drivers in parking their vehicle. On vehicles equipped with the IPAS, via an in-dash screen and button controls, the car can steer itself into a parking space with little ...

Connected Car will have devices that will talk to each other and also other cars on the road in real-time

Posted on February 13, 2016 by

Connected Car connects all its devices to other devices within the car/vehicles and or devices, networks and services outside the car including other cars, home, office or infrastructure. Today’s car has the computing power of 20 personal computers, features about 100 million lines of programming code, and processes up to 25 gigabytes of data an hour. Yet while automotive digital technology has traditionally focused on optimizing the vehicle’s internal functions, attention is now turning to d...

Folding Car

Posted on February 4, 2016 by

The Hiriko is a folding two-seat urban electric car being developed by the Hiriko Driving Mobility consortium in the Basque Country. The electric car is the commercial implementation of the CityCar project developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. The name Hiriko comes from the Basque word for "urban" or "from the city". Three versions are being developed: the Fold microcar; the Alai, a convertible; and the Laga, a small truck. The Hiriko is designed specifically for s...

EyeRing is a wearable, intuitive interface that allows a person to point at an object to see or hear more information about it

Posted on January 14, 2016 by

EyeRing is a wearable, intuitive interface that allows a person to point at an object to see or hear more information about it. We came up with the idea of a micro-camera worn as a ring on the index finger with a button on the side, which can be pushed with the thumb to take a picture or a video that is then sent wirelessly to a mobile phone to be analyzed. The user tells the system what information they are interested in and receives the answer in either auditory or visual form. The device also...

BOT: A Vision For Commuting in the Future

Posted on December 24, 2015 by 41629066

The idea is to combine taxi service, real-time ride sharing and self-driving vehicles. Friendly looking vehicles named BOT will be in constant connection with the network that accepts ride-requests. They can pick up users at any location, and unlike public transport, drive them directly to the destination. If someone needs to go in similar direction, the system allows him or her to join a ride, making it an efficient way to commute. One cab could replace 4 or even more privat...

MARTY, Stanford’s self-driving, electric, drifting DeLorean

Posted on November 17, 2015 by

MARTY was built in collaboration with Renovo Motors, an automotive start-up based in Silicon Valley that specializes in building advanced electric vehicle technology. Working closely together gave the Stanford team early access to a brand new platform derived from Renovo's electric supercar that delivers 4,000 pound-feet from on-motor gearboxes to the rear wheels in a fraction of a second, allowing precise control of the forces required to drift. "Stanford is a world leader in autonomous vehi...

Tesla Autopilot Mode – Model S Software Version 7.0

Posted on October 20, 2015October 31, 2026 by

Tesla has launched a software update for its vehicles enabling the cars to have an "autopilot" mode. The latest software update, 7.0 allows Model S to use its unique combination of cameras, radar, ultrasonic sensors and data to automatically steer down the highway, change lanes, and adjust speed in response to traffic. Once you’ve arrived at your destination, Model S scans for a parking space and parallel parks on your command. Today’s update increases the driver’s confidence behind the wheel...

Bloodhound: World’s fastest racing car.

Posted on October 17, 2015 by

The supersonic car built to smash the current land speed record has been unveiled in London. Its top speed is more than 1,000mph an hour which is faster than a speeding bullet, and it is powered by Rolls-Royce jet engines and a rocket. The Bloodhound is part of a £40m project spearheaded by Richard Noble, a man who held the record between 1983-1997 at 633.4mph, to break the land speed record. Noble's record was beaten by RAF fighter pilot Andy Green in 1997, who hit more than 763mph. Now work...

Xerox system automatically counts vehicle passengers.

Posted on October 11, 2015 by

Xerox rolls out Vehicle Passenger Detection System with highway speed accuracy for HOV/HOT Lane Enforcement. This system identifies the number of occupants in a vehicle with better than 95 percent accuracy at speeds ranging from stop-and-go to 100 mph. High occupancy carpooling lanes are critical to combating roadway congestion. However, their benefits are severely limited when motorists do not abide by the rules. Xerox (NYSE: XRX) announced the launch of its HOV/HOT lane compliancy test system ...

Smartbox Technology Set to Change Insurance Prices

Posted on September 12, 2015 by

The smartbox records details about how your car is driven and data is wireless transferred in real time to the insurance company. MyDrive Solutions, an insurance telematics provider announced the launch of its insurance smart box product which will enable car insurance companies to use driving behavioral data, as derived by the latest data capture technology, to assess the risk presented by individual drivers and price car insurance premiums accordingly. Insurance companies are implementin...

World’s First Wipe-On Clear Nanocoating Ensures Permanent Car Paint Protection

Posted on September 8, 2015 by

A novel nanocoating promises to permanently protect surfaces from damage or deterioration. Scientist Thomas Choate has introduced the world's first Wipe-On clear nanomaterial that will protect surfaces from damage or deterioration and also help restore them. The product, named Vecdor Nano-Clear®, has the ability to permanently restore original color, gloss and surface hardness back into oxidized textured plastics, highly oxidized fiberglass and highly oxidized paint surfaces while reducing...

World’s first 3D-printed electric car

Posted on September 6, 2015 by

Order and pick up your customized personal car. That's the vision of Arizona-based company Local Motors. Local Motors plans to transform the traditional automotive world with the launch of a three dimensional (3D) printed car next year. Strati is an electric car developed by Local Motors and manufactured in collaboration with Cincinnati Incorporated and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It is made from ABS plastic that has been enforced with carbon fibre. The car was manufactured using a Larg...

Tires That Cannot Go Flat

Posted on September 5, 2015 by

Biomimicry, the science that imitates nature to create new products, is the field responsible for new, airless, tubeless, tires that cannot go flat. Resilient Technologies, a Wisconsin based company, is behind this invention. The inspiration for the design of the tire was found in nature: the honeycomb. Instead of using a pressurized air cavity, the tire design relies on a geometric pattern of six-sided cells that are arranged in a matrix like a honeycomb. The tire has uniform flexibility ...

Cars talking to each other

Posted on August 19, 2015 by 41629066

Car in future will talk to each other, it might see a deadly crash coming even if you don't. Auto makers are looking to equip new vehicles with technology that lets cars warn each other if they're plunging toward peril. A radio signal would continually transmit a vehicle's position, heading, speed and other information. Cars and light trucks would receive the same information back from other cars, and a vehicle's computer would alert its driver to an impending collision. When a motorist br...

Japanese engineer develops world s first car in a bag

Posted on August 11, 2015 by 41629066

Pocket-sized personal transporters could soon be seen on the streets of Tokyo. A Japanese engineer has developed a portable transporter small enough to be carried in a backpack that he says is the world's first 'car in a bag'. Twenty-six-year-old Kuniako Sato and his team at Cocoa Motors recently unveiled the lithium battery-powered "WalkCar" transporter, which is the size of a laptop and resembles a skateboard more than a car. The slender WalkCar is made from aluminum and weighs between ...

Mind-controlled Car Tested At Nankai University In Tianjin China

Posted on July 19, 2015 by 41629066

A team member at Nankai University In Tianjin China tested a mind controlled car wearing an electroencephalo-graph acquisition equipment that orders a mind-controlled car to go forward. A Nankai University research team led by Duan Feng, associate professor of College of Computer and Control Engineering, developed a mind-controlled car which could be drove forward, reversed, braked, started, locked and unlocked all by human's mind. When wears an electroencephalo-graph acquisition equipment with ...