Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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The Supercharged Race Car Driver
Scott Falci is testing the bounds of the human-machine interface through the nonprofit he founded, Falci Adaptive Motorsports. The name describes what they do, as they are adapting race cars so they can be driven without using traditional controls. In one sense, what Falci and his team have done is like the hands-free control of…
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Autonomy for All Ages
Ensuring accessibility to mobility, regardless of ability or age, was a major theme of the 2019 SmartDrivingCars Summit. Reinforcing this idea, Aditya Belwadi, an attendee at the conference, spoke about the importance of designing autonomous vehicles for children. As a Chair for the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM, Belwaldi brings credibility to…
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Viodi View – 04/16/20
As the discussion shifts to opening the economy, what will commerce look like on the other side is the $20+ trillion question. It feels like there will be permanent structural changes in how business – and everything else – operates. Whatever the changes, it is clear that technology and connectivity will continue to grow in…
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Hydrogen: The Future of Sustainable Air Transportation?
The first word that may come to mind when seeing hydrogen and air travel in the same sentence is Hindenburg. Future generations, however, may think of sustainability when they hear the words hydrogen and aviation in the same breath. The April 7th, 2020 webinar, “Powertrains for the air transportation market: Hydrogen vs. Lithium – what’s…
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Viodi View – 03/31/20
Will video conferencing become part of the new normal after we emerge from our cocoons? Without the combination of easy-to-use devices, resilient broadband, and cloud services, it simply wouldn’t be possible to provide the kind of visual/aural/interactive experiences that are allowing groups of people of all ages, abilities, and locales to learn, work, play, worship…
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1st Step towards Autonomous Trucking & Platooning
Two former Carnegie Melon faculty members, who happen to be brothers, discuss how they are taking a pragmatic approach of adding automation to long-haul trucking. Their company, Locomation, has come up with a package to upgrade an existing big rig that is simple as replacing a mirror with a new mirror assembly that includes of…