Collaborate Disseminate
Self-driving is currently the Holy Grail in the automotive world, with a number of companies racing to build general-purpose autonomous vehicles that can get from point A to point B …read more Continue reading Full Self-Driving, on a Budget
When mountain biking over rough terrain, a fair bit of effort goes into keeping the front wheel from being deflected to one side by roots, rocks or other obstacles. Canyon Bicycles has set out to make things easier, with its KIS self-centering steering… Continue reading Canyon introduces KIS self-centering steering for mountain bikes
As anyone who’s spent Christmas morning trying to shake a quadcopter out of a tree can attest, controlling these fast moving RC vehicles can be tricky and require a bit …read more Continue reading A Drone for the Rest of Us
US/German auto parts company ZF has released an innovative strut suspension front axle concept that allows the front wheels to turn up to a ludicrous 80 degrees, delivering incredibly tight u-turns and extraordinary agility for parallel parking.Continu… Continue reading Easyturn axle concept delivers a ridiculously tight turning circle
Yamaha is sending a motocross racing team into battle this year equipped with prototype power steering systems that also act as steering dampers. It might look crazy at first glance, but there’s fascinating implications for future motorcycle design.Con… Continue reading Yamaha debuts power steering … on motorcycles?
While wheels might seem like a foundational technology, they do have one major flaw: they typically need maintained roads in order to work. Anyone who has experience driving a Jeep …read more Continue reading Tracked RC Vehicle is (Mostly) 3D Printed
For all its ability to advance modern society in basically every appreciable way, science still has yet to explain some seemingly basic concepts. One thing that still has a few …read more Continue reading Prototype Robot For Omniwheel Bicycle
A couple of weeks ago when it emerged that a new Tesla might have a four-wheel steering capability, our colleague Dan Maloney mused aloud as to how useful a four-wheel …read more Continue reading Four Wheel Steering, Always The Option, Never The Defining Feature
There’s no motorcycle on the planet like this one. British company White Motorcycle Concepts (WMC) has put land speed record holders on notice with a 2WD, hydraulically hub-steered electric motorcycle, designed around a giant hole. The company says the… Continue reading “World’s fastest electric motorcycle” uses radical big hole technology
There comes a moment when our project sees the light of day, publicly presented to people who are curious to see the results of all our hard work, only for it to fail in a spectacularly embarrassing way. This is the dreaded “Demo Curse” and it recently befell the SIT …read more