Collaborate Disseminate
Most amateur high altitude balloon payloads descend back to earth with a simple non-steerable parachute and can land hundreds of kilometers from the launch site in inaccessible areas. [Yohan Hadji] experienced this first-hand during a balloon launch conducted by his high school, which inspired him to R2Home, a GPS-guided parachute …read more
Continue reading GPS Guided Parachutes For High Altitude Balloons
Self-driving technology is a holy grail that promises to forever change the way we interact with cars. Thus far, there’s been plenty of hype and excitement, but full vehicles that remove the driver from the equation have remained far off. Tesla have long posited themselves as a market leader in …read more
Continue reading Tesla Begins “Full Self Driving” Public Beta as Waymo and Cruise Go Unattended
Currently, if you want to use the Autopilot or Self-Driving modes on a Tesla vehicle you need to keep your hands on the wheel at all times. That’s because, ultimately, the human driver is still the responsible party. Tesla is adamant about the fact that functions which allow the car …read more
Continue reading Firmware Hints that Tesla’s Driver Camera is Watching
Autopilot has been around longer than you think. Indeed, in 1914, just 11 years after the Wright Brothers first ushered humanity into the aviation age, a fellow named Lawrence Sperry built a gyroscopic self-stabilization system into a Curtiss C-2. It w… Continue reading Autonomous Airbus aces autopilot taxi, takeoff and landing tests
Researchers warn commercial airplane systems can be spoofed impacting flight safety of nearby aircraft. Continue reading Airplane Hack Exposes Weaknesses of Alert and Avoidance Systems
One of the biggest problems of owning an older boat (besides being a money pit – that is common to all boats regardless of age) is the lack of parts and equipment, and the lack of support for those parts if you can find them at all. Like most things, …read more
Researchers were able to fool popular autopilot systems into perceiving projected images as real – causing the cars to brake or veer into oncoming traffic lanes. Continue reading Tesla Autopilot Duped By ‘Phantom’ Images
It’s probably one of the first lessons learned by new drivers: if you see a big, red fire truck parked by the side of the road, don’t run into it. Such a lesson appears not to have been in the Tesla Autopilot’s driver education curriculum, though – a Tesla Model …read more
Big commercial aircraft are already routinely guided in for automatic landings at large airports, as their autopilot follows radio signals transmitted by ground-based antennas. Such auto-landings currently aren’t possible at most small airpor… Continue reading German tech may bring automatic landings to small airports
They placed unobtrusive stickers that drivers wouldn’t see but would fool autopilot into thinking the lane was veering off to the left. Continue reading Researchers trick Tesla’s Autopilot into driving into oncoming traffic