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Drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), are aircrafts that are not operated by a human pilot who is aboard. They are one of the components in Unnamed Aircraft System (UAS). UAS includes a controller on the ground, the drone and a system of communication between the two. Due to expansion of the range of uses of drones, the drone industry has been growing at an extremely fast rate. Drones are employed for variety of reasons. The range of usage varies from nation’s safety to taking aerial shots for a movie. Thoughts are also been given on replacing delivery boys with drones. Soon all your packages might be delivered to your doorsteps by company drones. If you are thinking about getting your hands on one, then there are a few well-known places to buy drone in Australia . Rise Above Custom Drone Solutions is definitely one of them. They are one of the largest drone and DJI (Dà-Jiāng Innovations) distributors in Australia. Various uses of drones In this fast chang...

A new, full-size Hyperloop capsule designed to carry passengers at 1,000 kilometers per hour (620 mph) was unveiled Tuesday, offering a glimpse at what could be the future of travel. Hyperloop is the megafast, cutting edge transport technology first envisaged by controversial business magnate Elon Musk. It"s designed to transport people through low-pressure steel tubes at speeds to match a typical passenger aircraft. Several companies are now competing to be the first to make the Hyperloop concept a reality.  Hyperloop Transportation Technologies , a US start-up with no connections to Musk, hopes its new full-size prototype capsule puts it ahead in the game. The sleek capsule was unveiled Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain, near where it was constructed at the aerospace facilities of Airtificial, a partner of HyperloopTT. Billed as "an airplane without wings," the aim of Hyperloop is to permanently disrupt how we travel long distances. Several Hyperloop routes are currently in...

Google has updated its Google Maps with new features designed for commuters, which provide a greater degree of information, —along with integrated in-app music controls, to make travel more enjoyable. “Today, we’re rolling out new features on Google Maps to help you take control of your daily commute— enabling you to plan ahead, prepare for the inevitable disruptions, and possibly avoid them altogether,” Google Maps group product manager Ramesh Nagarajan writes . “Oh, and we’ll also help you have a bit of fun along the way.” Here’s what’s new; Commute tab The new Commute tab provides personalised live traffic and transit information, warnings when your commute will be longer than usual, and reports about traffic and accidents. And as before, Maps will tell you about alternative routes proactively when there are problems. Support for mixed-mode commutes . Also, for those who have mixed-mode commutes such as a drive, walk and rid...

Technology has always advanced towards the betterment of our daily lives. One quick look around you and you are sure to find some sort of device or appliance that did not exist as early as a decade ago- a device you can no longer imagine life without. This development takes place on both a hardware and software level. This is exemplified by the ever-improving phones and laptops that are available in the markets every year. Another avenue that has benefited from these advancements in technology is the transport sector. Self-driving cars that were once just an idea out of science fiction movies are now close to hitting the roads. In fact, semi-autonomous vehicles from companies such as Tesla, Nissan, and BMW are already available to the general public. These cars feature abilities such as self- parking, automatic braking and lane changing that are made possible by a combination of sensors and cameras combined with computer algorithms. Whether for better or worse, autonomous cars will inf...

Space Exploration Technologies Corp popularly known as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services. Its headquarters located in Hawthorne, California. Founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. Yesterday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gave an update on the design of SpaceX’s future massive rocket , the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), during an event announcing the first passenger who will fly on the vehicle—Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, a 42-year-old Japanese billionaire and founder of online fashion mall Zozotown, signed with SpaceX to fly around the moon on the company"s next generation rocket. Maezawa will attempt to be the first to return to the moon in nearly half a century, launching aboard a Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), which SpaceX is developing. BFR is the flagship for Musk"s vision of creating a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars, ...

Uber prices get higher as demand increases, but they also decrease as that demand cools off. There are times when you need to get an Uber right away, even if it"s at a peak hour and prices are through the roof. But there are also times when you have the luxury of waiting for your Uber to arrive -- those are the instances Uber had in mind when it cooked up an experimental feature that allows you to wait for a cheaper ride. The ride-hailing company is testing a feature that lets its customers take advantage of the new offer which entails telling them when fares are expected to get lower or higher. It also will help let riders know if they are willing to wait, they will find themselves a cheaper fare. Uber hasn"t publicly announced the feature, but in a tweet first spotted by Quartz , it is revealed that Uber is testing an option to have a longer wait time in exchange for a cheaper ride. An Uber employee in Berkeley, California, tweeted a screenshot of the feature. A screenshot...

Google has offered one of the easiest ways to book an Uber ride—until now. The tech giant has quietly removed Uber ride booking from its Google Maps app on Android, CNET reported. When you try to book a ride in Google Maps now, you’ll get a price range from Uber, Lyft, and other ride-hailing services, but you won’t actually be able to book your Uber ride inside the app In 2017, Uber acquired the ability to book rides in the Google Maps app by pulling up the account window and signalling the ride without any need to launch the Uber app, saving users time from hopping between app. Now, the feature gone from both the Android and iOS versions of Google Maps. Google Maps" support page has been updated to reflect the change, but provides no explanation on why the feature was removed, but help page said: “You can no longer book Uber rides directly in Google Maps. But you can still look up the route in the Maps app and then request the ride from the Uber app”. Al...

  Uber may be able to tell when you"ve had a few too many drinks. The ridesharing giant has explored identifying drunk passengers with artificial intelligence. According to a patent application filed by the company , Uber is planning to use machine learning to better understand the “state” of a passenger when they request a ride. The patent—which is pretty vague as to its purpose and full of a whole lot of technobabble describing how the system would theoretically work—lays out a system in which Uber could analyse how people typically interact with the app and determine if they are behaving in an “unusual manner,” whatever that might mean. The patent said: “The system receives the trip request from a user and generates a prediction about the current state of the user using the computer model. “To predict user state, the system compares data associated with the trip request to data about past trip requests submitted by the user. ...

Riding with Uber is getting more interesting . Really, you don"t need a prophet to tell you how awesome your Uber driver is or how annoying and you can"t wait to get to your destination so you can rate the driver,  now Uber—the ride hailing company is giving users the chance to rate their drivers in the middle of a trip.  The ride sharing company announced that Uber riders will now have the option to rate, compliment, tip, and share feedback with their drivers while they’re still in transit. This is a good news for users because now instead of forcing you to wait until your ride is over to rate a driver, the new changes on the ride hailing company app, will allow you while at the backseat and either tipping the driver halfway through a trip or informing Uber that the person needs to work on his or her driving skills or just rate the driver either with a five star or less.  Uber plans to take feedback on from the comments and tips from the riders and use it to...

Nigeria’s first ever high speed train service which open for service in March 2016. A double-track, standard gauge between Abuja and Kaduna that runs at 120 Km and 150 Km an hour. Come March, travellers will be able to journey from Abuja to Kaduna (and vice-versa) in less than an hour. The Nigerian government made huge strides towards diversifying transportation when it announced that the first ever high-speed train service in the country, as reported by Techpoint . A project that caused the Federal government $849 million. The China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) Nanjing Puzhen, who was commission the project has finished 10 orders for six African countries so far, including Nigeria, Sudan, Cameroon, and Kenya. The first time I saw the train,  it was a beauty,  new, orderly and an amazing sight, all you just want to do is jump right in but the orderly has turned irregularities, and system malfunction. I went back to re-evaluate Nigeria’s “high-spee...

[caption id="attachment_11390" align="alignnone" width="1280"]                                                                 Source: Fortune.com [/caption] Is that simple “push a button and “get food on your doorstep” . The world’s largest food delivery service, Uber is now planning to launch its network sky high. According to Bloomberg , Uber has plans to make food deliveries in the future using drones. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said that the company is starting the pilot in San Diego as part of a wide-reaching commercial test program. The drone-testing projects have been given approval for regulations that currently ban their use in the US and this acceptance will be used to help the Federal Aviation Authority draw up suitable laws to govern the use of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for myriad ta...

Human-free driving in the Golden State, California . Last month, following the fatal accident that caused the death of a woman in Arizona which involved Uber’s self-driving vehicle . The incident sent shockwaves through the tech and auto industries, raising questions about the safety surrounding this technology and the permissiveness of states like Arizona to welcome the testing. Unlike Arizona, though, California has been permitting and putting policies in place for self-driving cars to thrive. A couple of weeks ago, California was accepting applications for permits that would allow testing of fully driverless vehicles on public roads. At the time, the Department of Motor Vehicles wouldn"t reveal which companies had applied for the permits. Now, thanks to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle , we know that one of the companies was Waymo. Waymo is considered by many to be a leader in driverless car development, so its permit application comes as no surprise. As the company is a...

After months of Uber’s self-driving car launch , an incident occurred today as a female pedestrian was killed after being struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle in Arizona. In response to the incident, Uber has pulled all of its self-driving cars from public roads in the state as well as in the cities of San Francisco, Toronto, and Pittsburgh. The crash occurred near Mill Avenue and Curry Road early Monday morning in Tempe, Arizona. Police confirmed that the Uber vehicle was headed to northbound while the woman was walking in a crosswalk when she was struck by the vehicle unnoticed and she was identified as 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg by the police. This may be the first pedestrian to ever be killed in a self-driving vehicle accident. The vehicle was operating in an autonomous mode at the time of the accident. Herzberg was transported to a nearby hospital after the crash where she passed away from her injuries, according to a statement from Tempe police. Tempe police department stat...

We first learned back in 2016 that Google founder and Alphabet (Google’s parent company) Larry Page had two "flying car" extends underway , but there was no official statement at the time until we started hearing about tests last year, today it"s a great opportunity to meet Cora. The "air taxi" created by Page"s Kitty Hawk startup , the electric flying "car" is planned for use as a major aspect of a transportation benefit rather than deal to singular users (probably because of the regulations and infrastructure that may come with such innovations). It"s worked to utilise self-flying programming, and uses 12 lift fans for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) like a helicopter, so there"s no requirement for a runway. In the air, Cora is able to move at about 177Km/hr at about 3,000 feet. The air craft has three free flight-PCs and can keep operating just fine regardless of whether one goes down, while every rotor works autonomously and ju...

Elon Musk"s new startup, the Boring Company will focus on hyperloop and tunnels designed for pedestrians and cyclists. Initially, the thought behind the Boring Company was to make a system of passages in which cars would stop on electric sleds to be propelled at top speed inside these tunnels.   [xyz-ihs snippet="Elon-Musk-Boring-Company"] But the concept grew to incorporate another Elon Musk idea; the hyperloop , a comparable transportation framework that additionally incorporates a direct framework to diminish the pressure inside the tunnels all together for the sled, or more probable "units", to movement at considerably quicker speeds. The video below is the original idea the Boring Company provided last summer. [xyz-ihs snippet="Boring-company-initial-idea"] The bus (seen quickly in the first Boring Company video) is planned to convey individuals and bicycles, and Musk said that Boring Company"s loop system would have thousands of small stati...

It"s all about the flying car Airbus" first self-guided flying car finished its inaugural flight and successful I would add on the second of this month. The model "Vahana" flying car, which the aviation firm says will turn into the most recent leap forward in the public transportation service, remained airborne for 53 seconds, achieving a stature of 16 feet at the Pendleton Unmanned Aerial Systems Range in Oregon. According to an Airbus statement on the flight, “Today we are celebrating a great accomplishment in aerospace innovation,” said Zach Lovering, Project Executive of Vahana. “In just under two years, Vahana took a concept sketch on a napkin and built a full-scale, self-piloted aircraft that has successfully completed its first flight. Our team is grateful for the support we’ve received from A³ and the extended Airbus family, as well as our partners including MTSI and the Pendleton UAS Range.” [xyz-ihs snippet="Airbus-flying-car"] The 18.7-foot-...