The University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute is set to begin car-to-car communication tests on up to 3,000 cars. This is a big step towards autonomous driving. With a $14.9 million grant from the government, the institute will equip the cars with short range radios in their ambitious test. The cars will create a real-world [...]
While we are constantly reading about Google’s driverless car, China has just completed their test of a driverless car. It traveled for 286km on a highway, completely on its own. “We only set a maximum speed and then left everything to the car itself. It knew the speed limits, traffic patterns, lane changes and roads [...]
An undergraduate student has overcome a major obstacle in developing invisibility cloaks. An undergraduate student has overcome a major hurdle in the development of invisibility cloaks by adding an optical device into their design which not only remains invisible itself, but also has the ability to slow down light. The optical device, known as an “invisible [...]
More cool technology used in The Gaven still being worked on. Xiang Zhang and colleagues note that invisibility cloaks, which route electromagnetic waves around an object to make it undetectable, “are still in their infancy.” Most cloaks are made of materials that can only hide things using microwave or infrared waves, which are just below [...]
First proposed in 2008, scientist have now developed an acoustic cloaking device that makes objects invisible to sound. It uses simple plastic sheets with arrays of holes, and could be put to use in making ships invisible to sonar or in acoustic design of concert halls. Those approaches are mostly based on so-called metamaterials, man-made [...]
