A short clip from the debut of the Royal Automobile Club’s Future Car Challenge.
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Watch the 2012 Future Car Strategy Announcement for the IZOD IndyCar Series.
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www.objectsofdezire.com – The Nissan Pivo Is For Sure A Future Car . . . Loaded with ultra modern technology,this car is full of sensors.More over you’ve got an electronic inbuilt co driver to assist and guide you everywhere you go. Is My personal favorite.

Article by Peter Verhoeff

At the November 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show, Honda unveiled its new biofriendly FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle (FCV). Honda plans to lease a limited number of them in the summer of 2008. First developed in 1999, the 2008 model has many improvements, such as a 30% increase in driving range and a 25% increase in power-to-weight ratio. (1)What makes FCVs attractive, compared to gasoline-powered cars, is that fuel cells use hydrogen as a fuel to produce electric power, with pure water as the only byproduct. This makes the FCV a perfect zero-emission vehicle, emitting no greenhouse gases or air pollution whatsoever. Other advantages include reduced dependence on fossil fuels, better energy efficiency and greater design flexibility.

Typically, an FCV has an on-board tank of hydrogen gas, while the needed oxygen is drawn from the surrounding air. In “burning” the hydrogen, the fuel cell produces electricity that powers one or more electric motors to drive the wheels.

Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical element in the universe. Unfortunately, most of it is combined with other elements, as with oxygen to form water, or with carbon to form organic compounds, such as coal, oil and natural gas. Hydrogen can be extracted from water, using a process called electrolysis, but this method uses electricity. As power stations generally use fossil fuels, this makes electrolysis a less than optimum solution.

National Geographic magazine mentions a different method of generating hydrogen. Researchers Logan and Cheng of Penn State University were able to extract 99% of available hydrogen from organic materials using bacteria. This new method of extracting hydrogen is not yet commercially viable, but is promising as it does not require much energy to produce the fuel, giving it a distinct advantage over ethanol and other biofuels. (2)

If the challenges of cost, fuel distribution and delivery can be overcome, fuel cell vehicles promise to become a way to combat energy dependence, fossil fuel depletion, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. However, while most vehicles are still gasoline-powered, and will be for some time, it is important to make more efficient use of what fuel we have. This will buy time for the needed research and establishment of better energy solutions.

For that purpose, Biofriendly Corporation has created Green Plus®, a liquid fuel catalyst that causes more complete burning, resulting in fewer harmful emissions and better fuel economy.

References:

(1) http://world.honda.com/news/2007/4071114All-New-FCX/

(2) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071113-hydrogen-fuel.html

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Author, Peter Verhoeff, contributes articles on environmental issues for Biofriendly Corporation. More information on these and other topics can be found on the Biofriendly site.

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The idea is transforming from motorcycle to car. Motorcycle : effecient at parking, on traffic jam Car : better at wider stance, fast driving, crumple zone on each side. Use of electricity is specialized at city life. Battery can be charged at home or at parking lot using cord and plug. It is a school project. Please leave a comment about idea. If you are interested about me, Here is my portfolios www.coroflot.com
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Watch Toyota’s highlights from the 2010 RAC Brighton to London Future Car Challenge. Featuring all three generations of Prius, the Prius PHV plug-in hybrid concept, the Auris Hybrid Nations Challenge, and the UK debut of the FCHV-adv hydrogen fuel cell concept.

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Article by Dwyane Thomas

CNN has just featured the so-called driverless cars — all equipped with sensors, radars, cameras, computers and communicators that allows them to maneuver its way on roads and through traffic with very little human assistance.Of course these driverless vehicles still have the usual automobile parts like the Mercedes radiator. The several components which will serve as the “replacement” for the driver are the parts that are incorporated like, as earlier mentioned, the sensors.

These sensors are placed on the several vital parts of the vehicle to be able to monitor the movements of the car. Many cars of today are already fitted with sensors for various purposes; some to check what the car is doing when the wheels turn and another monitors the movements of the wheels. There are also brake sensors that time the spin of each wheel and sensor on the airbags which will trigger the airbags if and when an impact occurs.

Not only are these sensors fitted to watch over the behavior of the car and how systems work or react with another, the sensors are also there to monitor the actions and behavior of the driver as well. It studies the driving style employed by the driver like the hardness of pressing upon the gas pedal and the manner of turning the wheel.

The radars are designed to monitor the outside movements. Back-up applications are the most known and most common of these component. These are the ones that warn you if the car is getting dangerously close to colliding with other cars or even to people. There is also the active cruise control which allows the driver to set a maximum speed for the car and maintain distances from the other cars.

Although most of these cruise control systems are designed on highway speed mode, Continental Tevis has actually designed a system for the Mercedes-Benz S-Class that will work to slow speed mode and even put the car to a stop. So if the traffic situation is shifty, there is no need to push the brake pedal, the car will be able to stop and go for you. This system of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class will lessen usual crashes of tailgating.

The Mercedes-Benz S-Class line also uses infrared camera and infrared light source for better night vision. The actual road condition can be viewed in green-and-black on a monitor on the dashboard. Furthermore, these cameras will monitor if the vehicle starts to go beyond the bounds of the lane that it occupies. By sounding an alarm, the driver will be warned of this occurrence.

The information that are received by the sensors, the radar and the camera are fed in to the computer which will in turn calculate and assess the proper action that the car should make when it faces certain conditions. The computer also functions as a memory device which stores the information it has received so that in the event that a collision or a crash occurs, investigators can easily determine what went wrong.In some cars, the computers can actually manipulate and control the actions of the other parts of the vehicle to further prevent accidents.

Another of these devices is the Global Positioning System (GPS) or the telematic system, which enables the driver to communicate with other people and even to computers especially when the need arises. This system uses satellites to be able to know and ascertain the exact location of a car. Studies are still going on for the advancement to give this system the capacity to communicate directly with one another.

The overall benefit of this new technology on cars is of course lessening road accidents and taking care of the passengers on board cars. These driverless automobiles hold the promise of higher speeds and lower fuel consumption.

About the Author

Dwyane Thomas is a part time cook and full-time auto-enthusiast. This 31-year old Civil and Environmental graduate is a consultant at one of the engineering firms in Pennsylvania.