Credit: CC0 Public Domain Experts from Aston University’s Centre for Business Prosperity say the UK faces being left behind in the electric vehicle (EV) revolution. Researchers have called for urgent…
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New tool analyzes news media sentiment regarding shipping industry
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study in the International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics has introduced a new Shipping Industry Risk Sentiment Index (SRSI). This tool has been designed…
Frigid weather can cut electric vehicle range and make charging tough. Here’s what you need to know
Tesla vehicles charge sit at a charging station, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, in Ann Arbor, Mich. A subzero cold snap across the nation has exposed a big vulnerability for electric…
Toyota small car maker Daihatsu shuts down Japan factories during probe of bogus safety tests
A factory of Daihatsu Motor Co. is seen in its headquarters in Ikeda, Osaka prefecture, western Japan Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. Toyota Motor Corp. subsidiary Daihatsu has shut down production…
NASA flies drones autonomously for air taxi research
An Alta-8 small Unmanned Aircraft System testbed vehicle flies above NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Flying beyond visual line of sight from observers on the ground required special…
NASA, Joby pave the way for air taxis in busy airports
Savvy Verma, left, and Huy Tran, director of aeronautics at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, center, explain a recent air traffic management simulation to guests at Ames’…
The safety dilemma of self-driving cars
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles, are revolutionizing how we move from one place to another. They’re also raising major safety and responsibility issues. In an article…
US rail to get much-needed facelift
Workers are seen at an Amtrak facility in New Castle County, Delaware in November 2023. Old-fashioned, slow, infrequent and often non-existent, trains have long been the poor relation of cars…
Interoperability is the name of the game in the future of traffic, says researcher
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An F-35 fighter plane has 8 million lines of code. A modern car, by comparison, has hundreds of millions of lines of code. The car is…
