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Elon Musk Posts Photo Showing First Boring Company Tunnel
Elon Musk has many hobbies and none of them include sitting idly by. He has proven time and time again that whenever he promises something, he will always follow through. Case in point: when he was stuck in LA traffic, he offhandedly tweeted about solving the issue. If he was…
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Dyson Announces £2 Billion Electric Car Project
James Dyson just revealed that his company has been working on developing a new electric car. In fact, they already have 400 engineers working on it secretly for the last two-and-a-half years. Needless to say, as a company that is very good at making things that suck, this most likely…
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Uber Ready to Compromise to Keep London License
Ride hailing service Uber has apologized and stated that they are to make concessions to keep their license in London. Transport for London’s announcement Friday states that the company will not receive a license renewal. Stating that the company shows “a lack of corporate responsibility”. The regulatory board sees their approach…
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Uber Stripped of Operating License in London
Ride sharing company Uber has been stripped of their operating license. London’s transport regulator made the decision Friday, affecting over 40,000 drivers and 3.5 million passengers. Transport for London states that it was the company’s conduct demonstrating “a lack of corporate responsibility” which eventually led to the termination. The regulatory board…
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Self-Driving Wheelchairs Debut in Asian Airports and Hospitals
While everyone is busy arguing about the virtues of self-driving cars, roboticists in Asia have been working on bringing self-driving wheelchairs to the mainstream. Before even considering self-driving cars, applying self-driving concept to wheelchairs seems to be much more practical and easy to implement. In fact, Haneda Airport in Tokyo…
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Let’s Take A Look Inside The Hyperloop
When it comes to travel, technology is looking to speed up and bring whole new modes of transport to your daily lives. From delivering your Amazon orders via drones to self-driving cars, we are going to see how we get from A to B to change at an astonishing pace.…
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Autonomous Cars to Rollout at Railway Stations in Germany
The autonomous vehicle trend is becoming more and more popular in several countries, and while some manufacturers have taken part in a self-driving Truck challenge, a German railway company named Deutsche Bahn is looking into adding autonomous cars to its mass transit network. These vehicles would help people travel to and from…
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Elon Musk Says Hyperloop “Is Really Going to happen”
SpaceX just staged a 3-day event at the Texas A&M University, where the pioneering space company brought together teams of engineering students from around the world to compete for a chance to have their pod designs built and tested on SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s proposed Hyperloop transportation system. Musk himself even made…
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Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Coming to Las Vegas Next Year
The first full prototype of Elon Musk’s revolutionary Hyperloop transportation system will begin construction in Las Vegas, Nevada, next year. The test track will be built across a stretch of 50-acres in the Mountain View Industrial Park in the City of North Las Vegas during the first quarter of 2016.…
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Elon Musk’s Hyperloop is Really Happening!
Elon Musk’s sci-fi mass transportation system is one step closer to becoming a reality. Hyperloop, which propels carriages at high-speed through pneumatic tubes, now has two leading companies involved in producing the advanced tubing infrastructure required to create the transport network. Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum and engineering designers Aecom have both…
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Ford Reveals Two New Prototype E-Bikes
Ford recently revealed two prototype e-bikes at the Mobile World Congress that aim to make travelling around cities a bit safer. The two e-bikes are called MoDe:Me and MoDe:Pro and have a 200-watt electric motor, along with a 9-amp per hour battery. They are said to have a top speed…
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Hovertrax is Like a Segway Without the Handlebars
We’ve seen a host of personal transportation products. From tiny electric bikes to powered skateboards, none of them have ever received the same level of notoriety as the Segway. Well a new device called Hovertrax might just become the Segway 2.0. The best way to think of the Hovertrax is to look at…
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Engineers Working For Free to Realise Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Transportation System
Last year, Elon Musk pitched a fantastical idea for a new national transportation system in the US. Called Hyperloop, it involved capsuled traincars propelled at high speed through low pressure underground tubes. Now, a group of engineers are working for free to make the project a reality. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies…
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BMW and Tesla in “Talks”
Reuters reports that Elon Musk has been in talks with BMW over possible collaboration in the design of batteries and other components. The talks have taken place between the Chief Executive of Tesla Elon Musk and BMW executives. Musk is supposedly interested in working with BMW on lightweight body parts and battery…
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