Beautiful Transportation and Technology

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Post by Pigeon » Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:58 pm

Uber flying cars, what could go wrong with those...

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Post by Royal » Wed Apr 26, 2017 8:50 pm

Pigeon wrote:Uber flying cars, what could go wrong with those...
Tours would be fun.

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Lamborghini creates world's first 'self-healing' sports car

Lamborghini has created the world's first self-healing sports car. The Terzo Millennio, which translates as third millennium in Italian, has the ability to detect and repair cracks in its body work.

Using sensors the car can conduct its own health check to detect any damages and self-repair itself by filling the crack with nanotubes to prevent it spreading.

The super car was created in collaboration with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston.

Stefano Domenicali, manager and CEO of Lamborghini, said: "Collaborating with MIT for our research and development department is an exceptional opportunity to do what Lamborghini has always been very good at – rewriting the rules on super sports cars.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11 ... ports-car/


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Post by Royal » Sun Dec 15, 2019 10:16 pm

Dyson plans to bring a premium electric car to market by 2020
After conquering the world of vacuum cleaners, hand driers and bladeless fans, James Dyson is turning his gaze on the world of electric vehicles.
Kyle Hyatt February 14, 2018 12:56 PM PST


Late last year, James Dyson of Dyson vacuum cleaner and overpriced fan fame announced that his company would be investing £2 billion to develop an electric car by 2020 and, hopefully, it doesn't suck.

Really though, (terrible) vacuum jokes aside, Dyson on Wednesday doled out a few more details including a production target date and some very general technical specs.

Typically, we'd greet this kind of news with a healthy eye roll of skepticism, but the fact is that Dyson is as rich as Croesus (from ancient Greece, very rich) and loves inventing things. Additionally, the word round the campfire is that he already has 400 people working on the project at the Dyson facility in Malmesbury, England.

Dyson has said that its first electric car won't be cheap and won't be a sports car. This, in our minds, puts it in direct competition with Tesla's Model S and Model X. The car was initially set to feature solid-state batteries, technology in which Dyson has been investing heavily lately -- specifically with its acquisition of Sakti3, a solid-state battery startup, for $105 million. However, Ann Marie Sastry, the former head of Sakti3 who came to work for Dyson after the acquisition, has departed the company rather suddenly, which may slow down the development schedule for solid-state batteries.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/dyso ... -car-2020/


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Post by Pigeon » Mon Dec 16, 2019 12:07 am

The rich will drive electric cars, the poor walk or get those terrible electric scooters that get tossed into rivers and ditches.

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Post by Royal » Tue Dec 17, 2019 5:10 am

Pigeon wrote:The rich will drive electric cars, the poor walk or get those terrible electric scooters that get tossed into rivers and ditches.

:)
Are you like a weird mix of cyber amish punk?

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