Self driving car good or bad

Bosch said its lidar system is advanced enough to work in both highway and city driving scenarios. Most importantly, it'll work in concert with cameras and radar as the German company wants to create the highest level of safety when it comes to self-driving cars. Lidar fills a "sensor gap," Bosch believes. … [Read more...] about Bosch thinks its new lidar system is the breakthrough self-driving cars need

"Autonomous driving is an irresistible trend, but any isolated vehicle alone can’t nail it. The only solution is to get more information from the roads,” said Huawei IoT Solution President Jiang Wangcheng.  © Flickr / are you gonna eat that … [Read more...] about Chinese Tech Giant Huawei is Developing Smart Roads Instead of Smart Cars

"We think the big culprit is speeding," said Jonathan Adkins, executive director of the Governors Highway Safety Association. Early in the pandemic, drivers found open roads and drove faster. The behavior continued even as traffic volumes recovered, Adkins said. … [Read more...] about NHTSA says U.S. highway traffic deaths rose in 2020 due to risky driving

"Newport City Council has been contacted a number of times since 2014 about the possibility of retrieving a piece of IT hardware said to contain Bitcoins," said a spokesperson. "The cost of digging up the landfill, storing and treating the waste could run into millions of pounds - without any guarantee of either finding it or it still being in working order." … [Read more...] about Man offers local government $71 million to help him find drive containing 7,500 Bitcoin

It does away with the lithium-ion batteries you find in most electric cars available today, instead swapping them out for a hydrogen tank and super capacitors which not only weigh less, but can operate more efficiently at extreme temperatures and - Hyperion claims - the system is safer than lithium-ion counterparts. … [Read more...] about Hyperion XP-1: the hydrogen-electric, 221mph hypercar with 1,000 mile range