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An Electrifying Roadster @IDTechExShow
Combining a classic style, with the advantages of an electric car without a $70k price tag, is what the Shockwave Motors Defiant promises. Interviewed at the IDTechEx conference, Shockwave Motors founder and designer, John McMillian, discusses the features of this three-person, three-wheel around-town vehicle. With a standard range of 80 to 100 miles and a…
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Learning Machine Learning By Playing a Game
Using a contest to learn how to help a machine learn is at the heart of a course, Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars, that Lex Fridman conceived of for MIT students. As Fridman says, the point of the course is to “make deep learning accessible to beginners.” The resources and lectures are available for all,…
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The Brains Behind an Autonomous Vehicle #CES2017
The rapid advancement of autonomous vehicle technology is thanks to a confluence of factors, such as low-cost sensors (thanks smart phone revolution) and the ongoing price/power/computational performance improvements for microprocessor and graphic processing units. These tools are enabling the practical application of machine learning and creating the electronic brains necessary to make the seemingly infinite driving…
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Using Sense to Save Dollars and Cents
Sense provides a non-invasive, real-time method to measure electricity in the home. The real power isn’t in the Watts measured, but the signatures they create that allow them to identify things, such as when particular appliances turn on and off, and then infer information, such as how many hours per day a TV is on…
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The Internet of Thinking Things
Nvidia’s president and CEO, Jensen Huang, wowed the crowd at this week’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) with technology advancements and ecosystems that will have an impact that ripples through many industries. There were the hardware announcements, such as the DGX-1V, which, according to Huang, provides the equivalent of 400 servers in 3 rack units for…
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Secret Sauce Behind Car Sharing #CES2017
Who will run the autonomous mobility services of tomorrow? It may be the entities that are forming car-sharing services today. And, according to Alex Thibaut of Vulog, those entities are a varied bunch, ranging from automobile clubs, car manufacturers, energy conglomerates,insurance companies and local start-ups. From the mobile app to vehicle access to the backend, Vulog…
