Important Innovations

  New AI Enabled Safety Systems for E-Bikes                                 Source:  Streetlogic and Stock Images Much Smarter Bikes Virtually every global automaker is working on the development of autonomous, self-driving cars.  Now the same technology - ADAS or Advanced Driver Assistance Systems - is starting to be applied to e-bikes for smarter, safer biking.  These new, advanced AI and machine learning enabled technologies are providing cyclists with some of the real-time safety information and data available to drivers in connected cars. Highly Advanced Technologies ADAS monitoring can provide cyclists with knowledge of what they can't see because of blind spots around them during their ride.  These emerging safely alert and collision avoidance systems are composed of highly advanced AI, machine learning, computer vision, algorithms and deep neural networks. They...

New Driverless Car Tech Source:  Mercedes Self-Driving Car Concept Big Energy Efficiencies and Travel Time Savings Engineers at the University of Delaware, in collaboration with Boston University, have developed a new technology system for driverless cars that could make traffic lights and speeding tickets obsolete. The researchers used control theory to develop algorithms to control and minimize energy consumption in autonomous cars crossing city intersections with no traffic lights.  That's just the start. Energy Efficient Mobility Systems They used the software to simulate results.  The system enables the cars to conserve fuel and momentum while cutting travel time to their destinations.  The engineers are developing solutions that could enable the future of energy efficient mobility systems. Results and Potential The results have been published in the journal Automatica.  The team has created innovative tech to yield optimal acceleration and ...

Knowing What's Around the Corner Source:  Honda's Smart Intersection Display Smart Tech for Smarter, Safer Driving Audi and Honda are setting up and testing smart intersections in the US.  The approach involves display alerts on your dashboard and cameras positioned at intersections.  Audi's technology sends an alert to the driver warning that a light is going to turn red before you get through it.  Honda's sends an alert of an oncoming emergency vehicle, car or pedestrian that are not yet in sight. Audi's Pilot Program Audi is working in Washington, DC and Las Vegas to outfit intersections to work with Audi's countdown traffic lights system.  The system is designed to give the driver ample warning that they aren't going to make it through a light before it turns red. Honda's Pilot Program Honda has a Smart Intersection pilot program underway in Marysville, Ohio.  The system flashes a yellow image of an unseen vehicle on the HUD - he...