We’re probably not going to see an iCar from Apple any time soon. Instead, the company is working hard on hardware and software to control the vehicles of other manufacturers autonomously. Apple is backing SLAM technology, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping.…
Figures are merciless: the ICE Sprinter from Munich to Berlin was supposed to take less than four hours. The project had started 25 years earlier; 29 viaducts, 22 tunnels and 160 special points had to be constructed for it; the…
Big data on rails In the race between “trains, planes or cars”, the train is catching up fast. And not only for environmental reasons. Data are driving trains forward, making them faster, constantly available and an integral part of…
© Shutterstock The electric con Is electromobility the solution to all our problems? Once it has established itself across the board, as people on all sides like to maintain, it will be the saviour in the fight against climate change.…