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The historical development of the airbag in the car

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The evolution of airbags began somewhere in the 50s of the last century, and it continues to this day. How have airbags developed throughout history, and how are they expected to increase travel safety
Tesla S car at an exhibition in Berlin on March 5, 2016. Photo: Ugis Riba / Shutterstock.com

Why did the autonomous cars fail?

Autonomous taxis have indeed reached the roads in some cities, but they are still far from replacing taxi drivers, or capturing a significant share of the public transportation market. On private autonomous vehicles - those that are owned
Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

An autonomous robot burns weeds using lasers

Multi-sensor autonomous car experiment. Photography: Omri Raftov

Maged Avatar demonstrated driving an autonomous vehicle with full sensing means

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The association operates with funding from the Innovation Authority and the Department of Smart Transportation at the Ministry of Transportation and integrates companies from complementary fields *
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Four groups were selected to carry out tests of operating autonomous buses within the framework of the national project for autonomous public transportation

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Metropolin, Egged, Dan and Netiv Express (each separately) will cooperate with start-up companies and international transportation companies to operate pilots of autonomous buses, first as part of an experiment and following that a license to operate in areas to be determined
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Protected: 10 tips for new drivers!

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Assembling an engine at a car show in China. Image: depositphotos.com

Quiet engines

Researchers have built a mathematical model for building thermophones, which may eliminate the noise caused by the engines of cars, airplanes, and more
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Autonomous decision-making under conditions of uncertainty

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This problem in artificial intelligence is also called "belief space planning". Solving this problem, i.e. calculating the set of optimal actions to achieve the goal, requires an estimate of the potential actions under a reward function
An autonomous Mobileye taxi navigates the streets of Jerusalem. Screenshot, Mobileye

Mobileye's autonomous vehicles are now driving with a full sensing system on the streets of Jerusalem (video)

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The Innovation Authority approved 57 m s for activities in the fields of human-machine interface and control of autonomous vehicles

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Dror Bin, CEO of the Innovation Authority: "The Innovation Authority sees great importance in promoting the field of robotics in the State of Israel. Development and strengthening of capabilities in the field of robotics may give the relevant companies a significant competitive advantage in the sale of
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Why are autonomous cars afraid of plastic bags?

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Interview: Artificial intelligence, autonomous cars and understanding the "music" of speech

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Mobileye's fleet of autonomous cars in Israel. Photo Mobileye/Intel

The Economic Committee approved for second and third reading the legal infrastructure for testing autonomous vehicles for public use

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The beginning of the experiment is expected in the second half of the year * it will be possible for up to 500 cars to participate in the experiment
Electric car charging. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The clean transportation plan: by 2025 all new buses will be electric, and then the rest of the vehicles

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The plan includes a wide deployment of charging stations for electric vehicles and the conversion of gas stations to hydrogen refueling
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The startup Fieldin raised $30 million led by Fortissimo to make agricultural farms autonomous

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The agricultural operating system (AgOS) developed by Fieldaine already works in 5 of the 10 largest agricultural farms in California and supports more than 20% of the world's almond crops
An experiment that simulates forgetting children in the car. Photo PR, Ford

Ford has developed a simple technology against forgetting toddlers in a hot car

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In order to emphasize the dangers of hot cars, Ford commissioned ice sculptures simulating a 12-month-old baby and a Labrador dog, placed them inside a car, set the temperature outside the car to 35
A drone photo of the autonomous ship Mayflower as it departs for the Atlantic Ocean in Plymouth, UK on June 15, 2021. Photo by IBM PR

IBM's autonomous ship has begun its journey to cross the Atlantic Ocean

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The unmanned ship MAS400 is named after the ship Mayflower, which brought the first immigrants from England to America 400 years ago. It will navigate a journey that will last about three weeks using artificial intelligence, cameras and sensors, and will perform
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Technology companies and public authorities will collaborate and use data to reduce the number of accidents and improve the quality of transportation in Israel

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The data will be shared on a unique technology platform in the world that was launched today by the Israel Smart Mobility Living Lab association, which brings together a consortium of dozens of technology companies and public bodies in the field of smart transportation
Yumantix's driving robots combined with Portalix's validation platform, in real road conditions. PR photo

Humanetics' driving robots will perform physical safety checks in combination with the Israeli Portalix solution

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Portalix and Viomatics, the largest safety testing equipment companies in the world, held a demonstration that showcases Portalix's ability to combine and manage a physical safety test with vehicles in real road conditions alongside tests in a computer simulation
The concept of the connected car. Illustration: Ford

Ford will share information from its connected cars with other automakers to increase safety

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"Connected" car technology already warns Ford drivers of safety incidents; Now more drivers will benefit from road safety warnings. Included in the partnership - BMW, Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, TomTom, HERE Technologies and Central
The autonomous research vessel Milefour. IBM Photo

The autonomous ship has set off

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IBM and Peru Mare's autonomous ship MAYFLOWER is expected to cross the Atlantic Ocean to collect environmental data
The Amadimai Preservation vehicle, under construction for its launch in the summer of 2020. Photo by the European Space Agency

NASA sent a sophisticated vehicle to Mars and the first autonomous helicopter to fly in another world's atmosphere (live broadcast)

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A sampling of frames from the MIT AgeLab video array. and Toyota Courtesy of researchers Li Ding, Jack Trewilliger, Rini Sharoni, Brian Reimer and Lex Friedman, MIT

MIT and Toyota are releasing a dataset that will help build models for autonomous driving training

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Dedicated parking space for electric vehicle charging. From Jumpstory

The batteries of tomorrow

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XNUMXD mapping of mitochondria with the new technology (the color symbolizes the depth dimension - different colors represent different depths) Credit: by courtesy of Nature Methods and authors

The autonomous microscope

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The Mercedes-Benz concept car intends to test the capabilities of autonomous driving in its luxury research car F 015 Luxury in Motion. Photo: Mercedes Benz

Are autonomous cars safe?

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The autonomous ship MAS that will investigate the concentrations of plastic in the Atlantic Ocean. Figure: IBM

IBM will launch an autonomous ship that will investigate the ways of plastic accumulation in the Atlantic Ocean

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An illustration of the operation of the new radar developed in the laboratory of Prof. Pavel Ginzburg, from the article in Nature Communications:

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a radar that significantly advances the technology for smart and autonomous vehicles

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A charged electric car in a parking lot in Tel Aviv. Photo: shutterstock.com

The Technion and Bar Ilan will manage the National Center for Smart Transportation

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The autonomous delivery vehicle was shot. From the company website

An autonomous delivery vehicle enters regular use in Arizona

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A concept car equipped with human-machine interfaces, on the way to an autonomous car. The car was designed by a Swiss design company for the RINSPEED Institute. The model was placed at the Svit 2015 exhibition held in March 2015 in Hanover, Germany. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"The autonomous vehicle revolution will change the face of the roads"

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Brakes 2.0 - what are the differences between the old and autonomous braking systems

The thought of a braking system arose simultaneously with the thought of a vehicle, and to this day it is one of the most influential and critical factors in vehicle design. But what is the technological path of braking systems? Here is some history
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The physics of speed - behind the scenes of the number 1 cause of accidents

About lies we tell ourselves, the laws of traffic and Newton's, and how we can look at traffic jams in a positive light
Simulation of an autonomous cargo ship. Illustration: Intel and Rolls-Royce

Intel and Rolls-Royce will develop autonomous cargo ships

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Radar for autonomous cars. Illustration: Locust Robotics

Vehicles will look very different in the next 15 years

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Xianchao Tong, CEO and co-founder of Roadstar AI, next to a vehicle with the company's technology at the CES Asia conference. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Artificial intelligence will be able to bring the cars to level 4 autonomy

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Road accidents of autonomous cars. Illustration: shutterstock

Preventing road accidents of autonomous cars: artificial intelligence will not be enough - it also needs to learn

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Coganta is building a cloud-based autonomous car testing simulator system in partnership with NVIDIA and Microsoft. Illustration: Shay Rothman. Photo from the company website.

The artificial intelligence that will allow the developers of autonomous cars to try them inside a computer

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A Level 2 autonomous driving system is integrated into a Tesla Model X. Level 2 means limited autonomous navigation capability, on highways and with close human supervision. From Wikipedia (2018)

Driverless cars are already here but the roads are not ready

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Olivia Safan, Vice President for Transportation and Mobility at Dassault Systèmes (3DS), at the company's booth at the CES exhibition in Las Vegas, January 2018. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

XNUMXD design and printing have become necessary for the changing automotive industry

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Simulation of the satellite fleet. Courtesy of the Technion.

The Technion will launch the first autonomous satellite fleet into space

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Autonomous driving, the military version

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A velocipede type bicycle, manufactured in 1868. Source: Wikimedia.

The bicycle celebrates 200 years of pedaling

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Will autonomous cars coexist with human-driven cars at the same time? Image: pixabay.

Will autonomous cars coexist with human-driven cars at the same time?

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Illustration: NVIDIA Corporation.

Automatic, not autonomous

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Pay for public transportation with credit

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Unmanned aerial vehicle of the Shadow type. Image source: US Department of Defense.

The robot that (didn't) think it could: on autonomous robots and unexpected successes

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The system developed at IBM will be able to decide whether to let the car manage itself, or to transfer control to the driver. Illustration: why kei.

IBM registered a patent for a system for transferring control of the vehicle between the driver and the autonomous car - according to the risk on the way

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Mercedes driverless car. Photo: PR

April 1: Why and how were the changes made to driving on the left and right?

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Improvements in car reliability. FROM PIXABAY.COM

"Technology will make it possible to reduce traffic accidents by ninety percent"

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