Category: Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment
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Flying in Water #CES2020
Manta5 made its debut at CES2020. Viodi caught up with Manta5’s Events Manager, Stacey Kitchen. She has been testing and promoting Manta5’s water toy, the Hydrofoiler XE-1, in different locales around the world. With a cruise speed of 9 MPH and a top speed of 12 MPH (according to their website), it zips along at…
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A Flying Vehicle for First Responders and More
Could the George Jetson future of personal flying start with first responders, cargo delivery, and security applications? Although Stephen Tibbits, CEO & co-founder of ZEVA, envisions a day when his flying wings will provide mobility for the masses, the ZERO’s vertical take-off and landing capability, 50-mile range, and 160 mph cruising speed could be a…
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Improving Driving Today, While Building an Autonomous-Driving Future #CES2020
Using only the camera and processing power of an iPhone, Phiar overlays directions on a live video shown on a driver’s smartphone display. The Phiar solution also identifies objects, people, lane-markers, and more. Potential features of the Phiar app include lane departure warning and collision warning. Founder and CEO, Chen-Pin Yu explains that they had…
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The Future of the Public Roadways in Tweets
Does public transit have a future and, if so, what is in the post-Covid-19 world? Those were a couple of the questions debated at the 2nd Zoom-Tank zoominar on May 18th, 2020. Like episode one, the questions and side dialogue both within the Zoom channel and the YouTube livestream provided interesting insight and questions to…
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A Multi-Dimensional Broadband Network or Is This Just Pie in the-Sky?
[Added 5/17/20: The above video was modified from the original to include an additional animation of satellite-to-satellite communications via lasers, as described below.] Could Starlink’s launch later this year signal the creation of a new Internet?¹ But, before we get there, the limiting factor for Starlink and its competitors might be the cost of the…
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A Phoenix Rising from the Ashes
In the midst of economic gloom, a phoenix rising from the ashes is the metaphor that comes to mind when reflecting upon this week’s ongoing Agility Prime Launch Event. Agility Prime is a non-traditional Air Force program with the intent to “accelerate the commercial market for advanced air mobility vehicles.” Leveraging government testing and revenue-generating…