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An experiment measuring forces on the parachute was conducted at Carmel Beach. Photo: Technion spokespeople.

The autonomous parachute

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Display of autonomous and connected cars at the CES 2017 exhibition held in Las Vegas at the beginning of January. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"People are willing to tolerate the death of 35 people from vehicles driven by humans, but will not be able to tolerate one death from a robotic vehicle

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Liam Pedersen, director of Nissan's California laboratory next to a LEAF autonomous electric car at CES 2017 in Las Vegas. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

From the Mars vehicles to the autonomous vehicle and back

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Neurons in XNUMXD. Illustration: shutterstock

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have identified the mechanism that causes the death of neurons in familial dysautonomia - and are offering a first-of-its-kind treatment

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The signing ceremony for the cooperation between IBM and BMW in the field of autonomous cars. PR photo

IBM and BMW announce a collaboration: will tighten the emotional and cognitive connection between drivers and their cars using the Watson supercomputer

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Google's driverless car drives down the road in California. Source: Wikimedia / Michael Shick.

The truth about driverless cars

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Intel CEO Brian Krazenitz announces the company's vision in the automotive field at the California Auto Show, November 2016. PR photo

Intel will invest a quarter of a billion dollars in the development of autonomous cars

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Electric Bicycle. From Wikipedia

Electric bicycles: a cheap solution that may be expensive

It is not yet clear whether recycling of lithium-ion batteries on a large scale will be economical. Photo: Kārlis Dambrāns, Flickr

Why do we need electric bikes around?

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Shared photo for the Technion team. Standing, from right to left: Dolev Simon - security pilot, Yevgeni Gutnik - assistant supervisor (aeronautics), student Ido Greenfeld (aeronautics), student Omri Argov (aeronautics), student Ziv Shein (aeronautics), Dror Artzi - senior lecturer and project supervisor (aeronautics ), student Adi Toprak (aeronautics), student Yuval Paz (electricity), student Adi Nissim (electricity), student Nitzan Shmuel (electricity), student Mia Scott (aeronautics), student Uri Avraham (electricity), student Roni Forte (electricity) , AIDS fellow, PhD student and supervisor (electricity). Sitting from right to left: student Shlomi Busher (electricity), student Gal Zolkar (aeronautics), student Stanislav Shugaev (aeronautics), project leader student Eliran Eyal (aeronautics), student Ra'a David (aeronautics), student Dor Noti (aeronautics). Missing from the picture: the students Yegor Shmuklarevitz (aeronautics) and Ahmed Kaswani (electricity). Photo credit: Technion spokespeople

An achievement for the Technion team in an international competition for autonomous aircraft (AUVSI)

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The convoy of the Volvo company. Photo: VOLVO

The song of the autonomous convoy

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Volvo FH series trucks. PR photo

An autonomous truck inspired by nature and design thoughts

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Prof. Amnon Shashua presents the autonomous vehicle platform at a joint press conference with Intel and BMW PR photo

BMW and Intel will join the Israeli Mobilya in developing an open platform for autonomous cars

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STAR robot for soft tissue surgery.

A robot for autonomous analysis of soft tissues has registered success in experiments in pigs

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Victoria - British Columbia. Photo: shutterstock

The price of pollution

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Tesla S car at an exhibition in Berlin on March 5, 2016. Photo: Ugis Riba / Shutterstock.com

Jeep Cherokee and Tesla-S Hackers Reveal How They Did It and Teach How to Protect the Internet of Things

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Talking on the phone while driving - distraction. Photo: shutterstock

Five crowdfunding projects for accessories that will make your vehicle safer

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A futuristic Honda concept car. PR photo

You don't need a small car to save fuel and air pollution

From the right: Volkmar Danner, CEO of Bush; Anthony Foxx, US Secretary of Transportation; Steven Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm; and Prof. Amnon Shashua, founder, chairman and CTO of Mobileye. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Making the car autonomous is not just a technical change, it will cause a revolution in the definition of what a city is

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The Norwegian government is mobilizing to reduce air pollution: in 2019, downtown Oslo will be closed to cars. Photography: Jeffrey Zeldman

Cars? Not with us

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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

Technology will lower insurance prices - the era of driverless vehicles is upon us

Klaus Reinmuth, Automotive Division at NXP during the DevelopEx 2015 conference. Photo: Kobi Kantor

Worst case scenario: taking over an entire fleet or even all the cars of a certain model

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Driving the future. Photo: Brook Ward, Flickr

I am not the driver

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Automatic car park in Walsemburg, Germany. Photo: DooMMeeR, Wikipedia

Robot or bus?

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Modern transportation brings with it progress, but also a faster spread of epidemics. Photo: Judhi Prasetyo, Flickr

The train of surprises

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