🚘 Transportation
Transportation in all forms and sizes are getting cleaner and the vehicles are self-driving. We for example cover electric cars, airplanes and trucks but also drones and all kinds of autonomous vehicles.
🌉 Smart concrete provides safer and cheaper bridges
Self-healing concrete with built-in sensors can reduce repair costs and reduce the risk of more collapsing concrete structures.
🚗 Electric car manufacturing reaches Ludicrous Speed
Elon Musk is probably best known for Tesla and there is a strong reason for that. More and more carmakers are now developing electric cars, and a new model even has solar panels on the roof.
🚁 Drone company Lilium establishes first flight hub in America
The first flight hub for drones will be established in Orlando and in one hour you can go as far as 300 kilometers, covering large parts of Florida.
🚇 New Hyperloop record - breaks 1000 km/h
Korean Railroad Research Institute broke its speed record and got above the symbolic speed of 1000 km/h. They aim to have a Hyperloop system in place in 2024, cutting the travel time between Seoul and Busan from 3.5 hours to around 30 minutes.
🚇 First passengers ever ride the Hyperloop
A short but important ride when two passengers tested the Virgin Hyperloop for the first time. Ultimately Hyperloops will reach speeds of over 1000 km/h and cut travel times.
✈️ In the future we travel more than ever
Our current means of transport are improving at a rapid pace. But there will also be several new ways of traveling that will make us travel more than ever in the future.
🚘 Autonomous vehicles take a step forward
Within a couple of weeks, three companies have announced important steps in the quest for self-driving cars. Tesla launched a beta test of their autonomous technology. Waymo opens up its driverless taxi service to the public in Phoenix, Arizona. And Cruise is doing the same thing in San Francisco.
🚙 Device curbs microplastic emissions from tires
College students invent a device that reduces microplastic emissions from tires and win a Dyson Award.
📹 First videos of Tesla's Full-Self Driving beta - see the revolution
Excited Tesla owners test the Full-Self Driving beta software. The roll-out will provide Tesla with lots of data that it will use to upgrade and make the software better continually.