Drivers optional
Self-driving cars — such as Google’s (but also real car makers, like BMW, Audi and General Motors) — are still some years away from being available to the common or garden back seat driver....
View ArticlePilots also optional?
In my last post I noted the shift to increasing automation on the roads. We are also seeing this in the air. In the US legislative and budgetary initiatives are set to encourage greater use of unmanned...
View ArticleFuel from water?
Will we shortly be able to stop drilling oil and get fuels straight from the water around us? That’s been promoted for many decades now, but we may be getting closer. The US Naval Research Lab...
View ArticleBrief updates to the future
A few quick updates to previous posts. Following on from Unthinking Machines – Noah Goodman makes a very good point about reconfiguring the Turing Test - break it up into a set of more meaningful tests...
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Clairvoyant vehicles, but what about us?
Some of you may recall “The Hoff” and his smart car KITT in Knight Rider. With the advent of Google’s autonomous cars, parallels between them and KITT have be drawn. But apart from self-driving...
View ArticleTransport Futures
Thirty billion, 60 billion, one billion, 10 billion. Those are some of the numbers from the Ministry of Transport’s recent Future Demand project. 30 billion kilometres travelled a year on New Zealand...
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