Transportation

Real driverless cars are now legal in Shenzhen, China’s tech hub

TechCrunch: There are plenty of autonomous driving vehicles testing on the roads of Shenzhen today: Pony.ai, Baidu, DeepRoute, AutoX, you name it. But these vehicles are not really the unmanned vehicles that tech upstarts envision for the future, as they…

Fuel cells show greatest promise in aviation

Financial Times: On land, sea and air, proponents of fuel cells are promoting their favoured zero-carbon energy source. Cars and commercial vehicles, boats and aircraft are today generating propulsive power by passing hydrogen through electrochemical cells to generate electricity — with…

Switzerland Moves Ahead With Underground Autonomous Cargo Delivery

IEEE Spectrum: In 2016, we wrote about Cargo Sous Terrain, a (then) US $3.4 billion concept for underground cargo tubes full of automated delivery carts whisking goods between cities and logistics centers across Switzerland at 30 kilometers per hour. The idea…

‘It keeps on going’: driving the world’s first production-ready solar car

The Guardian: Winding past the ochre-coloured plateaux of the Bardenas Reales natural park in northern Spain, Roel Grooten nudged me to take my foot off the accelerator. The car continued…