The concept of smart roads is not new. It includes efforts like traffic lights that automatically adjust their timing based on sensor data and streetlights that automatically adjust their brightness to reduce energy consumption. PerceptIn, of which coauthor Liu is founder and CEO, has demonstrated at its own test track, in Beijing, that streetlight control… Continue reading The Radical Scope of Tesla’s Data Hoard
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What V2G Tells Us About EVs and the Grid
The concept of smart roads is not new. It includes efforts like traffic lights that automatically adjust their timing based on sensor data and streetlights that automatically adjust their brightness to reduce energy consumption. PerceptIn, of which coauthor Liu is founder and CEO, has demonstrated at its own test track, in Beijing, that streetlight control… Continue reading What V2G Tells Us About EVs and the Grid
This Car Charger Bot Will Also Hold Your Spot
The concept of smart roads is not new. It includes efforts like traffic lights that automatically adjust their timing based on sensor data and streetlights that automatically adjust their brightness to reduce energy consumption. PerceptIn, of which coauthor Liu is founder and CEO, has demonstrated at its own test track, in Beijing, that streetlight control… Continue reading This Car Charger Bot Will Also Hold Your Spot
What’s the Tech Background of an Autonomous-Vehicle Engineer?
Cruise, the San-Francisco–based designer and operator of all-electric self-driving cars, employs nearly 2,000 engineers, including somewhere between 300 and 900 engineers with Ph.D. degrees. They work in hardware and software. They specialize in AI, security, and safety. And though, indeed, some have robotics, automation, or automotive backgrounds, many don’t. Instead, they come from an incredibly… Continue reading What’s the Tech Background of an Autonomous-Vehicle Engineer?
Switzerland Moves Ahead With Underground Autonomous Cargo Delivery
The ability to make decisions autonomously is not just what makes robots useful, it’s what makes robots robots. We value robots for their ability to sense what’s going on around them, make decisions based on that information, and then take useful actions without our input. In the past, robotic decision making followed highly structured rules—if… Continue reading Switzerland Moves Ahead With Underground Autonomous Cargo Delivery
Self-Driving Cars Work Better With Smart Roads
Enormous efforts have been made in the past two decades to create a car that can use sensors and artificial intelligence to model its environment and plot a safe driving path. Yet even today the technology works well only in areas like campuses, which have limited roads to map and minimal traffic to master. It… Continue reading Self-Driving Cars Work Better With Smart Roads
This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech
Hundreds of charging stations for electric vehicles dot Utrecht’s urban landscape in the Netherlands like little electric mushrooms. Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates… Continue reading This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech
Electromagnetic Simulations in Automotive Industry
This whitepaper shows several examples of how WIPL-D electromagnetic simulator can be applied to various scenarios in the automotive industry: a radar antenna mounted on a car bumper operating at 24 GHz, 40 GHz, and 77 GHz, an EM obstacle detection at 77 GHz, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication at 5.9 GHz. Go to Source
AI Tool for COVID Monitoring Offers Solution for Urban Congestion
Ng’s current efforts are focused on his company Landing AI, which built a platform called LandingLens to help manufacturers improve visual inspection with computer vision. He has also become something of an evangelist for what he calls the data-centric AI movement, which he says can yield “small data” solutions to big issues in AI, including… Continue reading AI Tool for COVID Monitoring Offers Solution for Urban Congestion
Toyota’s Skunkworks Chief “Incredibly Optimistic” on Climate
The layered components of an Infinitum Electric axial-flux motor are shown here, in exploded form.INFINITUM ELECTRIC This saving of energy is critically important: Software may be eating the world, but electricity is increasingly what makes the world go round. Electric motors consume a little over half of the world’s electricity today. Some 800 million motors… Continue reading Toyota’s Skunkworks Chief “Incredibly Optimistic” on Climate