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RoboCar HV driverless R&D test vehicle can be driven with an iPad. The Robocar HV being developed by ZMP is a test vehicle for research and development that acquires vehicle sensor data via the vehicle's controller area network (CAN) to enable vehicle control through an independent controller.
The Robocar HV can acquire various information such as speed, engine RPM, number of steering wheel turns, and orientation, and it can control steering, acceleration, and braking. Acquired driving data can also be saved and put into a database in a server via the Internet using a cloud service jointly developed with Microsoft Japan. "If detailed driving data is uploaded to the server and the data volume becomes huge, and if traffic condition data on traffic accidents, near accidents, traffic jams, etc. is also stored together with it, it becomes possible to predict whether the driving is dangerous or safe, or where traffic is likely to become congested depending on the driving or car status. "The price is high at 12 million yen ($150,000). iPhone App Makes Map Navigation Easier to Visualize. Crossfader has developed Version 1.4 of AR-MAPS, an iPhone app that supports augmented reality (AR) on maps.
AR is one of visualization solutions. This map application represents the ground on the bottom half of the screen, showing a map there. On the top half, it shows a video, with AR tags attached to destinations on it. This makes navigation easier to visualize. "AR-MAPS supports the iPhone. Virtual Body Technology Uses 5 Senses. The Ikei Laboratory of Tokyo Metropolitan University Graduate School of System Design is developing virtual body technology that utilizes the five senses.
In addition to using conventional audio and video footage , this technology can recreate smells as well as the feel of the wind and of stepping on the ground. "This exhibition of a virtual body is for the purpose of having a vicarious experience. This technology aims to enable various experiences as if having assumed a different person's body. This exhibition gives people the opportunity to vicariously experience traveling in Milan and running the world record 100-meter dash of famous athlete Usain Bolt. " The exhibition is made up of a 3D monitor,, headphones, a fan to create a breeze and spread scents, a chair that leans back and forth and vibrates partially, and foot pedals. "The chair will move to provide directional and vestibular sensations. Nissan NSC-2015 drives and parks automatically in a shopping mall car park. This autonomous driving system, developed by Nissan, can automatically drive and park your car in a shopping center parking lot.
The EV used in this demo, the NSC-2015, contains technology for recognizing the environment around the car using all-round cameras, and a remote monitoring system using 4G communication. When the driver gets out at the entrance to a parking lot, they can use a smartphone to instruct the car to park automatically. Then, the car automatically drives to the parking area, finds a space, and parks. "In the case of a shopping center, it's said that people wait, on average, ten minutes to get into the parking lot. We're giving this demonstration of an automatic parking system to show how things could be made a bit more convenient in such time-consuming, stressful situations.
" How Designers Plan To Create 'The Route 66 Of The Future' The folks behind the Dutch design lab Studio Roosegaarde have come up with some outrageous ideas (a vanishing cocktail dress!
A sustainable dance floor!). So you know when they partner with a construction company to conceptualize The Future Of The Highway, as they did at Dutch Design Week recently, it's going to be good. Also: weird. But not so weird that their vision won't be realized. In mid-2013, some of the earliest concepts will be implemented on a stretch of road in Holland, then later, if all goes well, on blacktop across the rest of Europe.
Those concepts include: glow-in-the-dark roads, asphalt paint that transforms in response to road conditions, and lanes that double as electric car chargers. Why redesign highways? Herewith are the key features of that "Route 66 of the future": This is a paint that becomes visible to drivers based on certain "contexts," explains Sendijarevic. What if we could save power on highway lights by using them less, but also using them better? Exhale Fans - World's first truly bladeless ceiling fan.