Collaborate Disseminate
Gravity Technologies is working hard to make electric vehicle charging faster and more widely available, particularly in populous cities like its home base of New York. Just weeks removed from launching the fastest charging station in the United States… Continue reading Sub-15-minute EV charger ready for on-street parking
If you’ve ever had trouble with a footpath, bus stop, or other piece of urban infrastructure, you probably know the hassles of dealing with a local council. It can be …read more Continue reading Smart Garbage Trucks Help With Street Maintenance
As urban underground landscapes heat up, the swelling and contraction they’re experiencing is putting stress on the buildings above that they weren’t designed to handle. So says a new study that calls the effect a “silent hazard.”Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Subterranean warming in cities likely destabilizing the buildings above
Using old insurance fire maps, researchers have enabled a machine-learning system to recreate 3D models of neighborhoods that no longer exist. Not only could the technique lead to VR tours of the ‘hoods, but it could help study the economic impact of u… Continue reading Technique turns maps of lost neighborhoods into possible VR landscapes
How founders are taking on housing costs worldwide. Continue reading Market map: the 200+ innovative startups transforming affordable housing
Follow this train of thought: cars have sensors, cars are infrequent use over large areas, cars are the ultimate distributed sensor network for weather conditions.
Many years ago, as I wasted yet another chunk of my life sitting in the linear parking lot that was my morning commute, I mused that there had to be a way to prevent this madness. I thought: What if there was a way for the cars to tell each other where slowdowns are? This was long before smartphones, so it would have to be done the hard way. I imagined that each vehicle could …read more
Continue reading Predicting Weather with the Internet of Cars
The world after golfing is a greener, more accessible one. Continue reading Reclaim the Golf Courses
The fatal Tesla Autopilot crash earlier this month opened a new can of worms: How will our cities be designed to trick robots? Continue reading Cities Will Have to Be Redesigned to Confuse Invading Robots