With the blessings of technology, all major car makers are now tending to make self-driving cars (autonomous cars). Jeffrey Miller, IEEE member and associate professor of computer systems engineering at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, believes that by 2040 most of the cars will be autonomous.
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Do you want to play a game in which there are GTA like vehicle chases, Rocsteady’s Batman like fluent combat style, Mafia 2 or Godfather like missions and map system, uniqueness storyline, enhanced graphics compared to the reality? Then Sleeping Dogs will be a right choice for you. The this game is the reincarnation of True Crime series. The 2012 open world action adventure Sleeping Dogs has given me such an adrenaline rush that I have completed the game in one sitting; the second such occurrence after Max Payne 3 earlier this year. Sleeping Dogs is a result of combined effort of United Front Games and Square Enix London Studios. The game has published solely by Square Enix for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, and was released on August 14, 2012.
Multitasking during driving is an especially dangerous habit. Taking a call being on the wheel can land one in serious trouble, especially when on a busy road. A new study commissioned by Ford finds that a surprisingly high number of drivers tend to multitask when driving.
Chinese cars are specially known more for imitation than innovation. A new car is about to break that stereotype. Chinese car maker BYD has announced that they have created the world’s first remote control driven car named Su Rui (name for the Chinese market). The car can be maneuvered from outside of the vehicle by using the controls on the car key.
Eyesight restoration seems to be one of the most buzzing subjects in medical technology this days. Lots of new discoveries has been made in this field lately. This time, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York have successfully decoded the retain’s neural code for brain communication, and using a novel prosthetic retina restored vision to the blinds.
For long, car vendors have been trying to find a way through which car collisions could be avoided. A number of ideas to this end have been introduced so far. For instance, some researchers have used radars, cameras and 3G to enable a car detect the presence of a pedestrian ahead. Now, General Motors (GM) has introduced a solution of their own, and it seems to be far better than the earlier systems.
Earlier we have seen communicative gloves for the deaf and blind. Now, researchers at Georgia Tech have created a wireless, musical glove that may improve sensation and motor skills of people with paralyzing spinal cord injury (SCI). It’s been found that, the musical glove helps the spinal cord injured people with tetraplegia to move their hands easily,. They can even play the piano.
So far, researchers were mainly interested in developing self-driving cars. Some prototypes of self-driving cars have also emerged, for example, Google’s Self Driving Car. But a semi-autonomous system was out of the question, until now. Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a semi-automatic system called “intelligent co-pilot” to keep the drivers safe. The system keeps analyzing potential hazards or collisions from data received through an onboard camera and laser rangefinder while the driver holds the steering wheel. Whenever any possibility of accident arise the system takes the wheel and upon return to a ‘safe-zone’ release the control to the driver.