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A New Helmet Keeps Your Head On Straight
Skin Head A stretchy skin-like material lets the helmet skid more freely across the ground. MORE INFO: Lazer Solano SuperSkin $315 (est.); lazerhelmets.comCourtesy Lazer HelmetsThe Lazer Solano...
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Future of the Car: The Urban Commute, 2020
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New Federal Rules To Require Black Boxes to Record Driver Activity in Every Car
Crashed CarCha già José via FlickrSomeday your car will give you recommendations on where to eat, suggest more efficient routes between home and work, and even monitor your health. But for now it's...
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Two New Sensor-Based Safety Systems Lead Toward The Crash-Proof Car
Robo Sense If Mercedes's pedestrian-detecting Spotlight system detects an oncoming car, it will refrain from flashing its brights, lest it make things worse by blinding the driver of the oncoming car....
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3-D Scanning and Reconstruction of Crash Scenes Will Save Cops and Drivers...
Crash in the UKjf01350 via FlickrPolice in England will soon deploy 3-D laser scanners to the scene of car crashes, saving time and allowing wreckage to be cleared from roadways more quickly. The 3-D...
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Human-Caused Driverless Car Crash Is More Evidence That Cars Should Just Take...
Leave it to a human to crash an autonomous car Google's self-driving cars have apparently had their first fender-bender - and it was a person's fault, the company says.The car blog Jalopnik posted the...
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4 Extreme Labs That Subject New Materials To Fire, Lightning, Crashes, and...
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Volvo's New Exterior Airbags Protect Pedestrians
Volvo V40's Pedestrian AirbagVolvoAn automatic pedestrian-detection system can warn drivers when people are likely to step out onto the road, and cushion a collision. Volvo, the Swedish carmaker known...
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A New Helmet Keeps Your Head On Straight
Skin Head A stretchy skin-like material lets the helmet skid more freely across the ground. MORE INFO: Lazer Solano SuperSkin $315 (est.); lazerhelmets.com Courtesy Lazer Helmets A motorcycle accident...
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Future of the Car: The Urban Commute, 2020
The Urban Commute, 2020 Illustration: Steve Karp PopSci looks at eight technologies that will make future automotive adventures free of traffic jams, fender benders and fruitless hunts for parking...
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New Federal Rules To Require Black Boxes to Record Driver Activity in Every Car
Crashed Car Cha già José via Flickr Someday your car will give you recommendations on where to eat, suggest more efficient routes between home and work, and even monitor your health. But for now it's...
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Two New Sensor-Based Safety Systems Lead Toward The Crash-Proof Car
Robo Sense If Mercedes's pedestrian-detecting Spotlight system detects an oncoming car, it will refrain from flashing its brights, lest it make things worse by blinding the driver of the oncoming car....
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3-D Scanning and Reconstruction of Crash Scenes Will Save Cops and Drivers...
Crash in the UK jf01350 via Flickr Police in England will soon deploy 3-D laser scanners to the scene of car crashes, saving time and allowing wreckage to be cleared from roadways more quickly. The...
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Human-Caused Driverless Car Crash Is More Evidence That Cars Should Just Take...
Human-Driven Driverless Car Crash The car blog Jalopnik received this photo of a Google driverless car prototype, identifiable by the roof equipment, that was apparently involved in a crash. Google...
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4 Extreme Labs That Subject New Materials To Fire, Lightning, Crashes, and...
Let It Burn Courtesy Dupont View Photo GalleryFailure is supposed to be a bad thing. In materials science, however, understanding and predicting how a new fiber, composite material, or type of plastic...
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Volvo's New Exterior Airbags Protect Pedestrians
Volvo V40's Pedestrian Airbag Volvo Volvo, the Swedish carmaker known for its safety engineering (a Volvo engineer invented the modern 3-point seat belt), has turned their focus to keeping those...
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PopSci looks at eight technologies that will make future automotive adventures free of traffic jams, fender benders and fruitless hunts for parking spaces.
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The idea of a robot assuming control of your car takes some getting used to. But the race to build increasingly autonomous automotive safety systems is well under way, as the…
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Police in England will soon deploy 3-D laser scanners to the scene of car crashes, saving time and allowing wreckage to be cleared from roadways more quickly. The 3-D…
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