Swedish Taxi-pod
06-01-2017
Students in Goteborg, Sweden, need to travel in the busy city centre. But now they do not need to take a bus or a taxi. They can use a Taxi-pod - a little yellow battery-powered car with three wheels.
The company Burst wants to solve the problem with traffic in centres in big cities. It would like to offer a perfect service for short trips in the city.
People on buses usually travel a long way. They are not in a hurry and they do not need to get to their final point. For lots of people, it is very important to travel quicker.
This service is not only about speed. The makers of these cars also want to improve air quality. They also want to solve traffic jam problems.
One of the passengers thinks that the Taxi-pods are good for clear air, cheap, easy to use in the city and fun.
Tiny Device Allows You To Track Your Car Using Your Smartphone
Do you lose your auto on a parking area? It happens. You stop and go shopping. When you get back, you forget where your auto is.
Now is is possible to track your vehicle without spending a fortune.
Its called TrackR. It's a modest gadget the size of a coin that works with your cell phone, and it can be precisely what you look for!
Introduce the free TrackR application on your cell phone, associate the application to your gadget and it is ready! You are free to append TrackR to whatever you need to monitor.
You can connect it to your keys, wallet, your tech devices and whatever else you would prefer not to lose.
House on Mars
People want to go to Mars. One million people can live on Mars in 2060. Elon Musk says this.
People make a model of a house. Houses like this can be on Mars. You can see the model in Greenwich, London.
The air inside the house is good. The house also gets water for you. The atmosphere on Mars is very humid. The house gets the water from the atmosphere.
People on Mars can have 3D printers. They can print everything that they need.
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Future Cars at CES
The CES is the Consumer Electronic Show. It happens in Las Vegas. It starts on January 5th and ends on January 8th. There are many new cars at the show. They are concept cars.
Hondas car has a digital assistant. Its name is HANA. HANA can know your feelings. When you are happy, it plays happy music. When you are stressed, it plays relaxing music. The car is also autonomous. It can drive itself.
The Oasis is another car. It has a small garden in the dashboard.
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5. Elon Musk's speed-of-sound Hyperloop
New train system dubbed Hyperloop by Elon Musk will mean getting from LA to San Francisco in under 30 minutes.
The Hyperloop is based on the very high speed transit system (VHST) proposed in 1972 which combines a magnetic levitation train and a low pressure transit tube. It evolves some of the original ideas of VHST, but still uses tunnels and pods or capsules to move from place to place.
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The Hyperloop is similar to the small vacuum tubes that can be found at banks and retail stores that are often used to move money quickly in sealed containers. Now the concept is to make the tubes and capsules much larger in order to carry passengers. Musk likened it to a vacuum tube system in buildings used to move documents from place to place.
A 5-mile test loop track will start this year.
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Robot wars
Technology makes the perfect partners of destruction. Military innovations transformed the way war is waged. The battlefields of the future will bear little resemblance to the war zones of today.
Innovations in efficiency mean that soldiers' presence on the battlefield is no longer required. AI robots would be free of human error, but capable of catastrophic mistakes of their own.
It's a valid concern, as one day machines will be able to kill on their own initiative. Developments in automation may lead vehicles and weapons to identify and attack targets automatically through pattern-recognition algorithms.
Facial recognition could enable them to detect an individual and pull the trigger as soon as theyre authorised.
Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking were among more than 1,000 signatories of an open letter demanding a ban on autonomous weapons published in 2015.
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Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill
Standard features on many ordinary cars already include intelligent cruise control or parallel parking programs features that allow you to sit back and let a computer do the driving.
So it will come as no surprise that many car manufacturers begin to think about cars that completely take the driving out of your hands.
These cars will be safer, cleaner, and more fuel-efficient than their manual counterparts. And yet they can never be perfectly safe.
And that raises some difficult issues. How should the car be programmed to act in the event of an unavoidable accident? Should it minimize the loss of life, even if it means sacrificing the occupants of a car, or should it protect the occupants at all costs? Should it choose between these extremes at random?
The answers to these ethical questions are important because they could have a big impact on the way self-driving cars are accepted in society. Who will buy a car programmed to sacrifice the owner?
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8. Should an Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder?
A man named Victor Collins died during the night of November 21, 2015, when he visited James Andrew Bates, a friend from work, at his home in Bentonville, Arkansas. Collinss body was discovered in a hot tub the next morning, and Bates was charged with murder.
Bates had several smart devices in his home, the Echo among them. The device typically sits in an idle state with microphones listening for key words before it begins recording and sending data to Amazons servers. But as Amazon points out, it is not unusual for the Echo to wake up by mistake and grab snippets of audio when people don't know that they are recorded.
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Police have asked Amazon for data that may have been recorded on its Echo device while a murder took place. It raises a thorny question should Amazon give investigators the data, even though it was recorded on Batess Echo in the privacy of his own home?
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