• Smart car cyberattack warning: Flaws found in security systems

    How Australia acts today will determine the security and safety of driverless cars, autonomous vehicles and intelligent transport systems in the future, with academics warning there is a risk of in-vehicle cyber attack without appropriate safeguards.

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  • Dive of the RoboBee

    For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a flying, swimming, insect-like robot -- paving the way for future dual aerial aquatic robotic vehicles.

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  • Cars must be considerate of the driver when talking

    Smart telephones and TVs are well-established technical gadgets in today's society. The same cannot be said about smart cars with dialogue systems that can understand you and communicate as if they were a person sitting in the seat next to you. A new

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  • Chemists find better way to pack natural gas into fuel tanks

    Increasing numbers of natural gas-powered trucks and buses are hitting the road, but a major disadvantage is the bulky equipment needed to store compressed NG or to keep liquefied NG cold. Now chemists have developed an innovative new storage material for

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  • Researchers create technology to produce lighter, long-lasting batteries from silicon

    Substantially smaller and longer-lasting batteries for everything from portable electronic devices to electric cars could be come a reality thanks to an innovative technology developed researchers.

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  • U.S. airlines learning from accident close calls, but they can try harder, study finds

    Although U.S. airlines are extraordinarily safe, they are missing an important opportunity to acquire even more safety-related information because some incidents involving close calls are not probed as evidence of potentially dangerous behavior but instea

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  • Volkswagen's emissions cheat to cause 60 premature deaths in US

    Excess emissions from Volkswagen's defeat devices will cause around 60 people in the US to die 10 to 20 years prematurely, say researchers. In total, Volkswagen's excess emissions will generate $450 million in health expenses and other social co

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  • Simple mathematical formula models lithium-ion battery aging

    Hybrid electric vehicles, cell phones, digital cameras, and the Mars Curiosity rover are just a few of the many devices that use rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Now a team of researchers has a simple mathematical formula to predict what factors most i

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  • Solar vehicle charging at home

    Owners of home photovoltaic systems will soon be able to make their households even more sustainable, because PV power is also suitable for charging personal electronic vehicles. A home energy management system recently created incorporates electric vehic

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  • Dust devils detected by seismometer could guide Mars mission

    Buried in the shallow soft mud of a dry California lake bed, a seismometer was able to detect the tiny tilts of the ground as it was pulled up by passing dust devils. The experiment is one of the first reports of a seismic signature from a dust devil.

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  • Tracking freight flows

    A new freight database that will help transportation officials improve highways, railroads and other trade routes across the country. With about two million records in the database, this resource captures freight movement by origin, destination, commodity

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  • Brains behind the wheel: Could virtual reality teach us to avoid real life accidents

    Using their state-of-the-art simulation facility, scientists are exploring the use of car driving simulators as tools for training and testing drivers in order to reduce road traffic accidents and fatalities.

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  • Greater potential for transport in climate mitigation

    The transport sector has the potential to cut its emissions of greenhouse gases in half by 2050, according to a new analysis. Given the continuing drop in battery prices, electric drives have bettered their position relative to engines running on biofuels

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  • Electric mobility contributes decisively to climate protection

    The transportation sector has the capacity to nearly halve its carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 and, hence, to contribute far more than previously thought to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Realizing this would require further efficiency improvement an

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  • Automated driving is a huge opportunity

    Highly automated driving will have achieved technical maturity before 2020, according to a new study. The authors also anticipate value creation in Germany amounting to 8.8 billion euros for the year 2025. Creating the legal framework and developing infra

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  • Electric cars: Batteries with brains

    The battery is the heart of the electric car. Researchers have developed an energy storage device which is significantly more cost-effective over the entire life cycle in comparison with previous models. If one of the more than one hundred battery cells i

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  • Novel intelligent transportation system for personalized reliable driving routes

    Researchers have developed a novel intelligent transportation system, utilizing integrated algorithm for real-time journey time estimation.

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  • New device could detect driver drowsiness, make roads safer

    Drowsy driving injures and kills thousands of people in the United States each year. A new device under development could alert drowsy drivers and avoid potential accidents.

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  • New report calls for more consistent regulations for mobile app transportation

    Innovative transportation services such as car sharing, bike sharing, and transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft are changing mobility for millions of people, yet regulation of these services often varies greatly across geographic areas and i

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  • Speeding up the hydrogen highway

    Drivers are seeing more hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles on the road, but refueling stations for those vehicles are still few and far between. This is about to change. One reason is the Hydrogen Station Equipment Performance device, or HyStEP, which w

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