SignalGuru uses network of dashboard-mounted smartphones to help drivers avoid red traffic lights
Posted by admin in Auto on 29. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
The continuing increase in gasoline prices around the world over the past decade has also seen an increase in the practice of hypermiling – the act of driving using techniques that maximize fuel economy. One of the most effective hypermiling techniques is maintaining a steady speed while driving instead of constantly stopping and starting. [...]
Mobileye claims ‘An End to Motor Vehicle Collisions’
Posted by admin in Auto on 08. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Mobileye’s warning system alerts drivers to imminent forward collisions and other driving hazards Before we go any further, let’s get this out of the way right up front – nothing is ever going to stop cars from running into things. Until drivers are taken out of the equation completely, accidents will always happen. Nonetheless, Dutch [...]
Natural Guidance from Navteq – a more human angle on navigation
Posted by admin in Electronics on 07. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
‘Take a left after the church’ Navteq’s Natural Guidance system aims to make GPS navigation instructions more like what a passenger who knows the way might say to you. Brilliant idea or bad move? Awful advertising, either way. Navteq has decided that typical turn-by-turn navigation instructions like "in 300 meters, turn left" aren’t ‘human’ enough. [...]
Audi demonstrating Travolution vehicle to infrastructure communications
Posted by admin in Auto, Design on 07. Jun, 2010 | 0 Comments
This week Audi has been demonstrating its Travolution technology on a fleet of test vehicles near its headquarters in Ingolstadt, Germany. The Travolution package actually incorporates a number of different technologies, including vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure communications and SmartACC. The vehicle-to-infrastructure component allows vehicles to communicate with traffic signals over a combination of WiFi and 3G mobile. [...]
Subaru develops advanced stereoscopic vision system for cars
Posted by admin in Auto on 23. Apr, 2010 | 0 Comments
Driving is a sight-response game and as the line between robots and cars begins to blur, cars will develop ever more advanced vision systems. Computers will initially aid and one day inevitably replace humans in ensuring cars are driven safely. Subaru began fitting a stereoscopic “EyeSight” system to some Japanese market cars nearly two years [...]
