MIT’s Folding Electric Car Goes On Sale Next Year
Adam Clark Estes, theatlanticwire.comBattery-powered folding cars wouldn’t be out of place in an Inspector Gadget cartoon, but pretty soon, they may be commonplace on the streets of Europe. And you know what’s the best part? At only $16,210, they’re affordable.
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The Associated Press: Driverless car navigates Berlin streets
Another example of research with driverless cars - this time researchers from Free University in Berlin.
BERLIN (AP) — It can talk, see, drive and no longer needs a human being to control it by remote. The car of the future — completely computer-controlled — is on the streets of Berlin.All summer, researchers from the city’s Free University have been testing the automobile around the German capital.The vehicle maneuvers through traffic on its own using a sophisticated combination of devices, including a computer, electronics and a precision satellite navigation system in the trunk, a camera in the front, and laser scanners on the roof and around the front and rear bumpers.“The vehicle can recognize other cars on the road, pedestrians, buildings and trees up to 70 meters (yards) around it and even see if the traffic lights ahead are red or green and react accordingly,” Raul Rojas, the head of the university’s research group for artificial intelligence, told reporters at a presentation Friday.
