Don’t think so? It’s because no one
can remember anything that happened
before the VW emissions scandal.
While everyone is talking about the
future of diesel and the
consequences for VW, two big
announcements were made around the
Frankfurt Auto Show have been mostly
forgotten: Google’s hiring of
former head of Hyundai Motors
America John Krafcik as CEO of
their Self-Driving Car Project, and
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche’s claim
that “we do not plan to
become the Foxconn of Apple.”...."
Read
more
acomik.tumblr.com, Oct 2015
"Robo-cars, are they too dangerous?
See
more. Hmmm...
Just a little fun. Alain
E Ailes, Oct 13, "They're known variously as "hoverboards" or "rideables" and are the latest must-have at the feet of celebrities - but the Crown Prosecution Service says riding them on public UK roads is illegal. What is this futuristic new breed of transportation - and how practical is it?..." Read more Hmmm... more Segways???Alain
Technix
2016
Envision
Automated
Transit (EAT)
Saturday,
January 9th,
2016
9:30 am – 4:00 pm
Kim Engineering
Building, University
of Maryland
8228 Paint Branch
Dr., College Park,
MD 20742
Open to the public
http://www.advancedtransit.org/library/news/technix-2016-envision-automated-transit-eat/
Oct 7
"The US risks losing
its leading global
position in the
development of
self-driving cars if
it allows a
patchwork of varying
state laws and
regulations to
develop, according
to Håkan Samuelsson,
president and chief
executive of Volvo
Cars.
In a speech to be
delivered Thursday
at a high level
seminar on
self-driving cars
organized by Volvo
Cars and the Embassy
of Sweden in
Washington DC, Mr
Samuelsson will
say...
D.
Hakim, Sept 26
"...It is not
Volkswagen’s first
run-in with
regulators over
emissions. When the
United States began
regulating tailpipe
pollutants in the
1970s, Volkswagen
was one of the first
companies caught
cheating. It was
fined $120,000 in
1973 for installing
what became known as
a “defeat device,”
technology to shut
down a vehicle’s
pollution control
systems. This time,
it equipped its
vehicles with
software that was
programmed to fake
test results, an
action the E.P.A.
rebuked in 1998,
when it
reached a $1
billion settlement
with truck-engine
manufacturers
for doing the same
thing.....
Cheating on
emissions tests
solved several
issues at once. Not
only were drivers
rewarded with better
mileage and
performance, but the
automaker also
avoided more
expensive and
cumbersome
pollution-control
systems.
While
Volkswagen cheated
behind the scenes,
it publicly espoused
virtue. This, after
all, is the company
that used one of the
largest advertising
arenas in the world,
the Super
Bowl, to run a
commercial showing
its engineers
sprouting angel’s
wings.
...Confronted again,
Volkswagen continued
to maintain that
there was a problem
with the testers,
not the
vehicles...Government
officials then
increased the
pressure on the
company, threatening
to withhold approval
for its 2016
Volkswagen and Audi
diesel models.
According to the
E.P.A., that is what
forced Volkswagen’s
hand. On Sept. 3, a
group of senior
engineers admitted
what the regulators
had suspected: ....
" Read
more Hmmm...So
UGLY!!! Alain
July 28 "...These vulnerabilities pose great risks and the federal government must do more to help protect Americans from these risks.”
6/8/15 " WASHINGTON
– In a report
released today, the
National
Transportation
Safety Board
outlined the
life-saving benefits
of currently
available collision
avoidance systems,
and recommended that
the technology
become standard on
all new passenger
and commercial
vehicles.
“You don’t pay extra
for your seatbelt,”
said Chairman
Christopher A. Hart.
“And you shouldn’t
have to pay extra
for technology that
can help prevent a
collision
altogether.”... Read
more Hmmm
Yea!!!
Finally some
semblance of
sanity in
Washington.
Alain