The Smart Cities group at the MIT Media Lab is working on two low-cost electric vehicles that it hopes will revolutionize mass transit and help alleviate pollution. Next week, the group will unveil a prototype of its foldable electric scooter at the EICMA
Motorcycle Show, in Milan. A prototype for the team’s foldable electric car, called the City Car, is slated to follow next year.
The MIT group sees the vehicles as the linchpin in a strategy that aims to mitigate pollution with electric power, expand limited public space by folding and stacking vehicles like shopping carts, and alleviate congestion by letting people rent and return the vehicles to racks located near transportation hubs, such as train stations, airports, and bus depots.
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Start++ extends Vista’s already impressive start menu functionality with configurable key commands. Hit Win key and start typing like…
w apple - opens Apple’s Wikipedia page.
g apple - opens Google’s search page for Apple.
imdb cars - opens IMDb’s search page for movie Cars.
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This would look and sound so much cooler if they went all the way adding wheels with a full set of suspensions, but you never know in the future… Read the more »
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Calling the new Bentley Brooklands “the world’s most exclusive coupe”, Bentley is planning to limit the vehicle’s production to only 550 units for the model’s lifetime. Read the more »
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This kid might be 15 but he definitely knows his driving as he totally “pwned” the pursuing cop in the Chevy Camaro V8. However, despite the fact that no one was hurt in the end, you’ll agree with us that this was one hell of a stupid move on behalf of the 15year-old. He risked not only his own life, but also the lives of the cops and more importantly, the lives of innocent and totally unaware by-passers who could have been seriously hurt for no reason at all. Read the more »
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