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The historical development of the airbag in the car

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The evolution of airbags began somewhere in the 50s of the last century, and it continues to this day. How have airbags developed throughout history, and how are they expected to increase travel safety in the future as well?
Tesla S car at an exhibition in Berlin on March 5, 2016. Photo: Ugis Riba / Shutterstock.com

Why did the autonomous cars fail?

Autonomous taxis have indeed reached the roads in some cities, but they are still far from replacing taxi drivers, or capturing a significant share of the public transportation market. Private autonomous vehicles - those that are privately owned - have nothing to talk about at all. what went wrong?

An autonomous robot burns weeds using lasers

Multi-sensor autonomous car experiment. Photography: Omri Raftov

Maged Avatar demonstrated driving an autonomous vehicle with full sensing means

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The association operates with funding from the Innovation Authority and the Department of Smart Transportation at the Ministry of Transportation and integrates companies from complementary fields *
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Four groups were selected to carry out tests of operating autonomous buses within the framework of the national project for autonomous public transportation

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Metropolin, Egged, Dan and Netiv Express (each separately) will cooperate with start-up companies and international transportation companies to operate pilots of autonomous buses, first as part of an experiment and following that a license to operate in areas to be determined
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Protected: 10 tips for new drivers!

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Assembling an engine at a car show in China. Image: depositphotos.com

Quiet engines

Researchers have built a mathematical model for building thermophones, which may eliminate the noise caused by the engines of cars, airplanes, and more
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Autonomous decision-making under conditions of uncertainty

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This problem in artificial intelligence is also called "belief space planning". Solving this problem, i.e. calculating the set of optimal actions to achieve the goal, requires an estimate of the potential actions under some reward or price function such as distance to the goal or a measure of uncertainty
An autonomous Mobileye taxi navigates the streets of Jerusalem. Screenshot, Mobileye

Mobileye's autonomous vehicles are now driving with a full sensing system on the streets of Jerusalem (video)

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The Innovation Authority approved 57 m s for activities in the fields of human-machine interface and control of autonomous vehicles

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Dror Bin, CEO of the Innovation Authority: "The Innovation Authority sees great importance in promoting the field of robotics in the State of Israel. Developing and strengthening capabilities in the field of robotics may give the relevant companies a significant competitive advantage in the sale of advanced robotic systems in the world market, both as complete systems and as an important component in autonomous systems produced by third parties."
Autonomous luxury car. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Why are autonomous cars afraid of plastic bags?

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Interview: artificial intelligence, autonomous cars and understanding the "music" of speech

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Mobileye's fleet of autonomous cars in Israel. Photo Mobileye/Intel

The Economic Committee approved for second and third reading the legal infrastructure for testing autonomous vehicles for public use

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The beginning of the experiment is expected in the second half of the year * it will be possible for up to 500 cars to participate in the experiment
Electric car charging. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The clean transportation plan: by 2025 all new buses will be electric, and then the rest of the vehicles

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The plan includes a wide deployment of charging stations for electric vehicles and the conversion of gas stations to hydrogen refueling
Autonomous agriculture. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The startup Fieldin raised $30 million led by Fortissimo to make agricultural farms autonomous

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The agricultural operating system (AgOS) developed by Fieldaine already works in 5 of the 10 largest agricultural farms in California and supports more than 20% of the world's almond crops
An experiment that simulates forgetting children in the car. Photo PR, Ford

Ford has developed a simple technology against forgetting toddlers in a hot car

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In order to emphasize the dangers that exist in hot cars, Ford ordered ice sculptures simulating a 12-month-old baby and a Labrador dog, placed them inside a car, set the temperature outside the car to 35 degrees Celsius and within 19 minutes they heated the temperature in the car to 50 degrees Celsius. The ice sculptures melted immediately
A drone photo of the autonomous ship Mayflower as it departs for the Atlantic Ocean in Plymouth, UK on June 15, 2021. Photo by IBM PR

IBM's autonomous ship has begun its journey to cross the Atlantic Ocean

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The unmanned ship MAS400 is named after the ship Mayflower, which brought the first immigrants from England to America 400 years ago. She will navigate a journey that will last about three weeks using artificial intelligence, cameras and sensors, and will also conduct scientific experiments to study the climate and the sea
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Technology companies and public authorities will collaborate and use data to reduce the number of accidents and improve the quality of transportation in Israel

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The data will be shared on a unique technology platform in the world that was launched today by the Israel Smart Mobility Living Lab association, which brings together a consortium of dozens of technology companies and public bodies in the field of smart transportation
Yumantix's driving robots combined with Portalix's validation platform, in real road conditions. PR photo

Humanetics' driving robots will perform physical safety checks in combination with the Israeli Portalix solution

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Portalix and Viomatics, the largest safety testing equipment companies in the world, held a demonstration that showcases Portalix's ability to combine and manage a physical safety test with vehicles in real road conditions alongside tests in a computer simulation
The concept of the connected car. Illustration: Ford

Ford will share information from its connected cars with other automakers to increase safety

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"Connected" car technology already alerts Ford drivers to safety incidents; Now more drivers will benefit from road safety warnings. Included jointly - BMW, Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, TomTom, HERE Technologies and EU Traffic Management Centers
The autonomous research vessel Milefour. IBM Photo

The autonomous ship has set off

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IBM and Peru Mare's autonomous ship MAYFLOWER is expected to cross the Atlantic Ocean to collect environmental data
The Amadimai Preservation vehicle, under construction for its launch in the summer of 2020. Photo by the European Space Agency

NASA sent a sophisticated vehicle to Mars and the first autonomous helicopter to fly in another world's atmosphere (live broadcast)

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A sampling of frames from the MIT AgeLab video array. and Toyota Courtesy of researchers Li Ding, Jack Trewilliger, Rini Sharoni, Brian Reimer and Lex Friedman, MIT

MIT and Toyota are releasing a dataset that will help build models for autonomous driving training

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Dedicated parking space for electric vehicle charging. From Jumpstory

The batteries of tomorrow

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XNUMXD mapping of mitochondria with the new technology (the color symbolizes the depth dimension - different colors represent different depths) Credit: by courtesy of Nature Methods and authors

The autonomous microscope

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