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Creators_ > the438corp. Yanisa Aummee 3 Nanticha Kitisakchaikul 6 Thira Teeratomorn 4 Narawich Lertprasertkul 22 Wichaya Thammakul 31 Supawish Kanokpongsakorn 34 Supakorn Parinyathanakorn 35 Sest Sitthichoketum 36 Akanat Tarasantisuk 39
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SOLAR POWERED CARS
What is a solar powered car? Solar cars harness energy from the sun by converting it into electricity. Solar cars use photovoltaic cells to convert sunlight into energy. Photovoltaic cells are the components in solar panels that convert the sun’s energy to electricity. They’re made up of semiconductors, usually silicon, that absorb the light. The sun’s energy frees electrons in the semiconductors, creating a flow of electrons. That flow generates electricity that powers the battery and the specialized motor in solar cars.
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Solar powered car design/technology Solar cars combine technology found in the aerospace, bicycle, alternative energy andautomotive industries. The design of a solar powered car is limited by the necessity of getting lots of energy from the sun and storing that energy in batteries. Almost all solar cars ever built have been for the purpose of solar car races.
Benefits of solar powered cars
1. solar panels work silently so they don’t add to the noise pollution. 2. Solar panels don’t create greenhouse gases 3. solar energy is free, widely available, and grants the solar car driver complete independence from foreign oil.
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THE HYPERLOOP TRAINS One of the most exciting innovations
in transportation has to be the Hyperloop train. Rising on nearly airless tubes at 800 mph, the train will transport you from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just 30 minutes. Elon Musk announced a design scheme back in August 2013, but the concept is more than a pipe dream -- it is now a real technology in development. A hyperloop is a proposed mode of passenger and freight transportation, first named as such in an open-source vactrain design released by a joint team from Tesla and SpaceX. Drawing heavily from Robert Goddard's vactrain, a hyperloop comprises a sealed tube or series of tubes through which a pod may travel free of air resistance or friction conveying people or objects at optimal speed and acceleration. 5
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il have historically been impeded by the difficulties in managing friction and come substantial when vehicles approach high speeds. The vactrain concept bstacles by employing magnetically levitating trains in evacuated (airless) or for speeds of thousands of miles per hour. However, the high cost of maglev and acuum over large distances has prevented this type of system from ever being vactrain system but operates at approximately one millibar (100 Pa) of pressure. mately one year after winning phase one of the Hyperloop pod competition, monstrated the first ever low-pressure Hyperloop run in the world. 6
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Google's new idea reveals how it might compete with Uber Google
has been developing self-driving car technology since 2009, and the company is reportedly planning to launch its own ride-sharing service that could rival Uber and Lyft.
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a recently published Google patent application provides some insight as to how the search giant might deploy autonomous taxis capable of knowing where to meet passengers despite unforeseeable road circumstances. The patent application, describes a memory system for self-driving cars to store map information, including predetermined locations for picking up and dropping off passengers. There are a number of potential obstacles that could make it difficult for a driverless taxi to safely stop in order to receive or drop off a passenger: most notably the presence of construction or emergency services.
The technology described in Google’s patent aims to make it easy
for autonomous cabs to find customers even in these circumstances by keeping a catalogue of predetermined areas that are convenient for meeting passengers. When a user requests a ride through a mobile device, the self-driving car’s system would be able to suggest a safe pickup area close to the customer’s location, according to the description in the document.
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Driverless Public Transport Pods Electric, two-passenger vehicles will run from the train
station, ferrying passengers at 12mph for ÂŁ2
a journey.
Milton Keynes has announced plans to deploy a driverless public transport system. 100 pods will be introduced to the town alongside an accompanying smartphone app that can be used to book and pay for journeys.
“Driverless cars are another invention that has the potential to generate the kind of high-skilled jobs we want Britain to be famous for, as well as cutting congestion and pollution and improving road safety,� said business secretary Vince cable.
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Each pod will have enough
space for two passengers and luggage. The pods are powered by electronic motors and will initially be given their own lanes, though there are plans to remove these once residents have become accustomed to the technology.
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Twenty trial pods have been introduced in 2015 with steering wheels and joysticks to control them.
The full, driverless system will hit the streets later in 2017.
EN-V Pride The vehicle to be employed has yet to be confirmed, but one in consideration is the EN-V Pride, an urban electric concept car developed by General Motors and Segway Inside the pods which included large touchscreens that allow passengers to browse the internet or check their emails.
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Imaginactive Announce Hypersonic Jet Concep Imaginactive has come up with an updated hypersonic jet
concept designed to make our world a lot smaller. Named Paradoxal, the aircraft would fly at the edge of space, allowing it to cut trips from Los Angeles to Sydney down to 3 hours, Imaginactive said. Today, that trip takes commercial airlines more than 14 hours to complete. Passengers would sit in one large, theatre-like cabin rather than a narrow tube as they do in today’s commercial airliners.
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cutting down travel time) would be powered by two rotary ra power the flying wing to around 60,000 feet, reaching speeds point, liquid oxygen would be injected into the gas port conver The rockets would take Paradoxal at supersonic speeds to miles where it would fly a sub-orbital parabolic trajecto
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The leading edge of the flying wing would
have “Long Penetration Mode (LPM) nozzles” allowing air to flow out to create a “paradoxal” effect that Imaginactive expects would help boost the speed in cruise and help cool the aircraft during the descent. Paradoxal is expected to require approximately 6,000 feet of runway for takeoffs and landings.
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While a flying car seems to be a luxury
item, there are practical uses for it. For example, it could cut commuters’ travel time, help people travel medium distances, and could even be used by rescue services and law enforcement in areas with poor road. Though the company calls the AeroMobil a “car,” it will need to be certified as an aircraft as well as a road vehicle. Those who want to see the flying roadster up close can go to the Justus Lipsius building in Brusselsduring working hours until August 1st.
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AeroMobil unveils futuristic flying car
AeroMobil just unveiled a brand new prototype of its futuristic flying car
in Brussels. The AeroMobil 3.0 is designed to be both driven on the road and flown through the air. AeroMobil CEO Juraj Vaculik announced that the company is planning to commercialize the car by 2017. The AeroMobil 3.0 is one of several new experimental prototypes from the Slovakian company. While the company’s current prototypes are all two-seated, Vaculik hinted that could change. Unfortunately, details about future designs haven’t yet been revealed.
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ba concept from Rinspeed is a zero-emmission sports car which has y to dive underwater up to 10m (33ft) deep,however in order to n both land and underwater the engine has been removed and with three electric motors supplied with power by rechargeable on batteries. One of the motors is used to provide power on land, other two drive the screws at the rear of the concept once underwater. derwater the driver takes the sQuba onto the water and simply opens slightly to allow the water to flood in.
ba can then be controlled underwater using the rear propellors and er jets. Onboard breathing apparatus for the driver and passenger is behind the seats.
he reason for not choosing a hardtop vehicle is for safety - with an car the occupants can quickly swim to safety in an emergency. a was first exhibited at Geneva Motor Show 2008
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Maglev (derived from magnetic levitation) is a transport method that use
magnetic levitation to move vehicles without making contact with the ground. With maglev, a vehicle travels along a guideway using magnets to create both lift and propulsion, thereby reducing friction by a great extent and allowing very high speeds. In itself, maglev technology includes no moving parts. Maglev trains move more smoothly and more quietly than wheeled mass transit systems. The power needed for levitation is typically not a large percentage of its overall energy consumption; most goes to overcome drag, as with other high-speed transport. Maglev trains hold the speed record for trains.
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Compared to conventional trains, differences in construction affect the
economics of maglev trains, making them much more efficient. For high-speed trains with wheels, wear and tear from friction from wheels on rails accelerates equipment wear and prevents high speeds. Conversely, maglev systems have been much more expensive to construct, offsetting lower maintenance costs. The highest recorded maglev speed is 603 km/h (375 mph), achieved in Japan by JR Central’s L0 superconducting Maglev on 21 April 2015, 28 km/h (17 mph)
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