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How may airplanes fly above our heads everyday?
Aaron Koblin knows the answer: It can be more than 19,000 in the United States. And thanks to his wizardry with FAA data, we can see how these aircraft drift from city to city in this mesmerizing computer visualization.
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The Volpe
Fed up of cramming into the elevator at work in the morning? Soon you’ll be able to drive into it instead – because the world’s smallest eco car is about to go on sale and it’s tiny enough to fit into office elevators. (Pics)
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Only 35% of hybrid owners bought another hybrid when returning to the market in 2011.
Only about a third of hybrid owners buy another hybrid, according to a new study.
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Young people are also making more use of transit, bikes, and foot power to get around.
“Unfortunately for car companies, today’s teens and twenty-somethings don’t seem all that interested in buying a set of wheels. They’re not even particularly keen on driving, ” Jordan Weissmann noted at TheAtlantic.com a couple weeks back.
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Gas prices are a supreme motivator.
Drivers tend to convert to the fuel-efficiency religion once they get severely wounded in the wallet. It’s a sad fact that environmental concerns alone are often not enough… Of course, the best ways to save on gas costs are to walk, bike, and take transit (for an example of a [...]
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Terrafugia, makers of Transition — the world’s first flying car — has released video of a production-type prototype flying over Plattsburgh, N.Y. today. (Video)
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You might already be familiar with Google’s self-driving car project. They have spent years working on a tough engineering problem—how to create a hardware and software system capable of gathering and interpreting massive amounts of real-time data and acting on that knowledge swiftly and surely enough to navigate innumerable varieties of crowded [...]
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ET3, a licensing organization, holds a patent to Evacuated Tube Technology or ETT and say that with their tubes, you will eventually be able to get you from New York to Beijing in 2 hours and from New York to London in less than an hour.
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Denver Zoo’s poop-powered tuk-tuk.
One thing a zoo has plenty of is poop. And the Denver Zoo is no exception. They decided the best way to deal with it was to convert a little three-wheeled truck to use zoo poop as fuel. (Video)
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Tacocopter
Could Tacocopter be the next great startup out of Silicon Valley? The Internet is certainly going wild for it. Tacocopter boasts a business plan that combines four of the most prominent touchstones of modern America: tacos, helicopters, robots and laziness.
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Natural gas home refueling appliance.
The only automaker currently selling natural gas-powered passenger car s in the U.S. is Honda. The Japanese automaker wants to double sales of its Honda Civic Natural Gas sedan and to do so it wants some of its dealers to install compressed natural gas (CNG) refueling stations.
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An interesting project called “Starlight” seems to have made use of thin film solar cell technology and advancements in lightweight materials technologies to create a perfect low cost solution for high altitude services, which engineers have been trying to achieve for long time.
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Using optical camouflage, experts at Mercedez have figured out how to make an entire car disappear.
Technology experts at Mercedes Benz have figured out how to make an entire car disappear. using optical camouflage. (Video)
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Driverless car
The first thing you have to do is accept the idea that we will one day all be in driverless cars. But the people who think about such things for a living are seriously convinced this will happen. (Video)
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Google’s self-driving car
Google wants to hire engineers to design and test the self-driving cars it’s been working on. Check out some of the new job listings Google has posted in the last couple weeks:
