The autonomous truck

Denis Sverdlov, CEO of Charge, the company creator of the YotaPhone, the first mobile with two screens, said to change the direction of the company.they are going to build autonomous and modular electric trucks for the cities. Furthermore, these trucks will be assembled by an employee in only 4 hours.

The futuristic trucks will have a new design thought to beautify a city, not like the current trucks. They will have a battery that will let them do 100 milles, but they will be able to take a generator that, with gasoline, could reach 500 milles more whith a payload of approximately of 1.500 kg. They will also be completely autonomous, which will allow them to take the most adequate route and reduce traffic jams in the cities. Finally, the more fascinating is that they will be modulators, this means that you can probably make biggest the truck, and add engines, if the cargo needs it. And this can be do it in a few minutes.

Today the trucks are still far from real, but we hope to see them soon in ours moderns cities.

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20161121-can-a-smartphone-designer-reinvent-the-lorry

Fusion center

China began to build plans to build a fusion feeder that would use Nadai to convert it into hydrogen. This will generate a lot of energy.

The problem is that in order to generate and maintain the reaction, at the moment an amount of energy is almost higher than the one it generates.

But in the same way you will try to build and optimize. This will help to improve the technology needed to do this. In a few years we may have energy that the only residue it generates would be helium.

We just need a little more budget.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170418-the-made-in-chelsea-star-building-a-fusion-reactor

Garbage dump, the orbit

In the space close to our planet there are many humans remains. We can find many satellites. But we can also see more than half a million pieces of human garbage as big as a marble. There is also more than 20,000 rests with the size of a cricket ball. But the most worrisome are the tiny pieces that cannot be detected, but that go faster than a bullet. For that the space agencies must create a method to eliminate these threats. The ESA (European Space Agency) has create a new satellite that can destroy pieces in the space. But that is only an alpha (a proof version), for that reason this machine will release its own trash simulation. Then it tries to recover the trash with four different methods. This is the road to follow for the other agencies.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180228-the-quest-to-beat-the-rubbish-dump-in-orbit

Have you noticed how ugly the seats of public transport are?

Surely yes. Surely, you've ever entered a bus, a subway, a train ... you've seen the ugly design of the seats. But, why are they so ugly?

Here we have the 4 main excuses:

1: Seating fabrics must pass many tests. They must pass tests of resistance for years, they must be able to clean the stains, they must be fire retardant and not absorb the smoke. This greatly limits the design.

2: Creating a good design is very expensive, and since it is public, you do not have much budget. To make a good design you will need many people and 2 years of work.

3: The fabrics of the buses must last many years, about 15 years on average. In this time the fashions change a lot, for this reason they cannot be done for a fashion.

4: Finally, they say that people do not pay attention to this either, that it is something very basic and that nobody really stops to look it.

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160804-why-are-trains-seats-so-hideous

the robot biker

Yamaha, the motorcycle brand, has created an autonomous robot to control a motorcycle with four-stroke engine. Motobot 2.0 is the second version of this robot. His goal was to compete for the best time on a circuit with Valentino Rossi.

For the test the motorcycle was not modified.They just put the humanoid on top. This robot was different from stand-alone in a road. This one went by circuit and did not need so many sensors. Finally, it works only with GPS, inclination and speed meter.

After some attempts the machine did not reach Rossi time for 30 seconds. This seems a lot, but exceeded 200 km / h, which is a speed that most motorists cannot reach.

The engineers say that they have learned a lot from this project and that they are already preparing a 3.0 version.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180126-meet-the-motorbike-racing-robot

Around the moon

Space X, the private enterprise managed for Elon Musk, has announced that it will carry out a mission with two private passengers, which is going to go around the moon.

The first private agency to send a mission to the international space station, and the only agency that has managed to land the most expensive part. The agency has proved the ships that will take the man back beyond the moon. This ship, like the one that is proving to arrive at Mars, is going to be relatively inexpensive, thanks to that the greater part recovers completely.

It is not known the name of the two passengers who have paid a large amount of money to arrive as far as the human has arrived. This money is going to help the agency a lot to the research. And the trip is going to help a lot of experience to the agency. Hopefully soon, a similar ship goes to Mars.

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The car that kills you

The autonomous cars are now a reality. These cars are only in test, but in her finally version will be the safest.  But the self-driving cars have yet to pass many steps.

One of these steps, probably the more problematic, is what does the car in case of accident. The difference between a human and a robot is that a human do that they feel in the moment, but the robot can calculate the possibility of injury and death. The problem is that the car will do whatever it is scheduled to do.

What occurred if the car death a person? Who is the guilty? The programmers, the enterprise, the proprietary... And the most important think, if the car looks at the obligation to shed an innocent or crash and kill the driver, what should it do?

This ethical problem has to be fixed. But they have already found a viable solution: the driver is going to decide what importance he gives to the life of the occupants, and the car will decide from this. we will see if this is the definitive solution.

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