Tag: automobile
-
Raw Power
As we head into the 4th of July weekend, let me share a celebration of a uniquely American pastime, drag racing. What could be more ‘merican than putting the biggest engine you can think of on top of the lightest, spindly chassis that can hold this bundle of power just long enough to make it…
-
Better Driving thru Optical Camouflage
This is pretty smart idea. Using principals of Optical Camouflage, researchers at Keio University project the image from a camera on the back of a car onto a recursive reflector which looks like one of those glass screens politicians use for their teleprompters. The mirror sits at an angle to project an image right where…
-
Driverless Vehicles – Two Kinds
Google released an amazing video showing one of their driverless car taking a blind man out to get tacos and pick up his dry cleaning. This is good. In a tweet the other night, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo pointed to a swarm of programmable Nano Quadrotors and mused, “It’s with confidence and dread that I’m…