Google have posted an interesting video of a talk by Sebastian Thrun (who was part of the winning team from Stanford) about their entry into the DARPA grand challenge 2005. See Winning The DARPA Grand Challenge – Google Video – which is almost an hour long.
The DARPA grand challenge was a competition to drive [...]
Posted on Sunday 19th November 2006 in Computers, Engineering tagged Computers, Engineering, future, mathematics, technology, transport, with no comments.
Perhaps it is just the working of the BBC News article, but this initiative could end up causing more chaos in the short term…
The drivers stopped by police will be given information and free entry to events at Knockhill.
So in order to get a free track day at the race circuit, they first have to [...]
Posted on Wednesday 15th November 2006 in Blog tagged motorsport, news, transport, with no comments.
George Monbiot, a journalist and activist, has proposed a 10 point plan to help us limit climate change by rapidly reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. While this will involve some changes in lifestyle, it will not be as radical as those changes that will be required if we don’t act now.
The general ideas can be [...]
Posted on Friday 10th November 2006 in Engineering, Politics tagged climate change, construction, energy, Engineering, environmental, future, Politics, technology, transport, UK, with no comments.
According to The Scotsman newspaper, the Lib Dems now back a bullet train link for Scotland’s main cities.
Stephen’s conversion appears to have been triggered by a visit to Shanghai in China earlier this month, where he travelled on the revolutionary 300mph Maglev train. The trains have no wheels and float above an electromagnetic field.
A Lib [...]
Posted on Sunday 27th November 2005 in Engineering tagged Engineering, Politics, transport, with no comments.
A story at boingbong caught my attention recently. The USA’s Department of Homeland Security are testing using radio-tags to track foreign visitors. Full story at The Kingston Whig-Standard.
This is very scary. It may be a “trial”, but a fuller implementation of this could lead to the Dept. of Homeland Security tracking all legal visitors to [...]
Posted on Sunday 31st July 2005 in Blog tagged technology, transport, USofA, world_politics, with no comments.
