The industry is in a state of flux at the moment - the media loves the idea of electric cars, although no one talks about where the electricity to recharge the vehicles is coming from. Honda and several other manufacturers are still developing fuel cells and Motoring Weekly recently wrote about the Nikola truck that uses this technology. There have also been articles about … [Read more...]
Light Detection and Ranging Technology
Now called LIDAR, it was originally named after a mix of light and RADAR because it does the same thing as RADAR but uses light instead of radio waves (the “RA" in RADAR). It is now one of the technologies used in self driving (or autonomous) vehicles combined with cameras, ultrasonic detectors, GPS and radar equipment. These pieces of equipment have been around for decades … [Read more...]