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Driven to Distraction
OFF THE ROAD Automotive Editor Dan McCosh climbs into Ford's driving simulator to test how on-board electronics can become a hazard. McCosh quickly and inadvertently goes off-roading as engineers...
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Car Navigation Systems Could Show Available Parking Spots
Available Parking Open space anyone? heartbeazLooking for open parking spaces in the city is one of the more teeth-grinding rituals for drivers, but researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey may...
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Video: GM Turning Car Windshields into Augmented-Reality Navigation Displays
AR Windshield GM's display system might point to upcoming road signs and help outline the road in dark or foggy driving conditions. General Motors Distracted drivers may soon get some warnings from...
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Tactile Navigation System Lets Drivers Feel Out Their Routes Without...
Navigating by Touch Nate Medeiros-Ward/William Provancher, University of Utah The most complicated task one used to undertake while driving was changing the eight-track, but now there are more...
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How a Blind Man Drove the Daytona Speedway, With the Help of Lasers
Laser Sensors and Cameras Send Data to a Computer in the Car Courtesy National Federation of the Blind/Virginia Tech Mark Anthony Riccobono, who is blind, drove a modified Ford Escape hybrid on the...
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My passenger in the Ford Taurus I'm driving suggests we skip through Bob Dylan's "Positively 4th Street." It's not my favorite song either. I start to fiddle with the CD…
View ArticleGPS Navigation Helmet Tugs Your Ear in the Direction It Wants You to Go
And you thought that lady from your car's navigation system was stern. Human-machine interface Researchers from Kajimoto Laboratory came up with this GPS navigation helmet…
View ArticleMIT Introduces a Friendly Robot Companion For Your Dashboard
With all the sensors, computerized gadgetry and even Internet connectivity being built into cars these days, it's a wonder our automobiles aren't more like Optimus Prime. Our…
View ArticleCar Navigation Systems Could Show Available Parking Spots
Looking for open parking spaces in the city is one of the more teeth-grinding rituals for drivers, but researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey may have hit upon a…
View ArticleVideo: GM Turning Car Windshields into Augmented-Reality Navigation Displays
Distracted drivers may soon get some warnings from their windshield displays about road hazards such as children playing in the street or vehicles in the driver's blind spot.
View ArticleTactile Navigation System Lets Drivers Feel Out Their Routes Without...
The most complicated task one used to undertake while driving was changing the eight-track, but now there are more technological bells and whistles in the cabs of our autos…
View ArticleFuture Robots Could Use Manhole Covers To Navigate Through Cities
Forget GPS and streaming video — future legions of city-dwelling robots may navigate using manhole covers.
View ArticleHow a Blind Man Drove the Daytona Speedway, With the Help of Lasers
Mark Anthony Riccobono, who is blind, drove a modified Ford Escape hybrid on the Daytona International Speedway, turning to avoid obstacles. He navigated using feedback from…
View ArticleNeurons in Bird Brains Encode Earth's Magnetic Field, Giving Pigeons Reliable...
Neurons in the brains of pigeons encode the direction of Earth's magnetic field, endowing the birds with an innate internal GPS system, according to a new study.
View ArticleHead-Mounted 3-D Mapping Device, Developed for Robots, Can Help Blind People...
A system first made for robot navigation could give blind people the equivalent of a Braille head-up display, according to French researchers. Two cameras mounted to a pair…
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Augmented Reality Is Coming To Your Windshield
Navion projects your route onto the road via hologramCourtesy of WayRayThere are heads-up displays out there already that project things like speed or turn-by-turn directions on the windshield. Some of...
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DesertTrax: The Homebrewed Race Team Tracker
DesertTrax Team Member Info ScreenDesertTrax Let’s say you and your friends like to get together to build outrageously tough and seriously fast off-road vehicles and race them in far-off-the-grid...
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Magellan Takes GPS Navigation Off-Road
Magellan eXplorist TRX7The 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show had lots of new SUVs and crossover vehicles – it was even declared the year of the SUV at the Mercedes-Benz press conference. Some SUVs were big,...
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Old Porsches Get a New Nav System
From Our Blogs: Speed Lab A retrofit for Porsches as old as the original 911 The Porsche Classic Radio Navigation System brings modern radio, connectivity, and navigation to generations of Porsche...
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Video: GM Turning Car Windshields into Augmented-Reality Navigation Displays
Cars Still doesn't excuse driving one-handed while texting Distracted drivers may soon get some warnings from their windshield displays about road hazards such as children playing in the street or...
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