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      <title>WARNING: THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY MAY BE MORE DISTANT THAN IT APPEARS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article examines nine myths and misconceptions about hydrogen-powered cars:  (1) hydrogen is an abundant fuel; (2) hydrogen fuel cells will end global warming; (3) the hydrogen economy can run on renewable energy; (4) hydrogen gas leaks are nothing to worry about; (5) cars are the natural first application for hydrogen fuel cells; (6) the U.S. is committed to hydrogen, pouring billions into research and development; (7) if Iceland can do it, so can we; (8) mass production will make hydrogen cars affordable; and (9) fuel cell cars can drive hundreds of miles on a single tank of hydrogen.  Discussion of these myths and misconceptions shows that the near-future prospects for a hydrogen economy are dim and that waiting for hydrogen to save us isn't an option.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>VISION. OUR DRIVING CONUNDRUM</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article describes how the cars of the future will think for us, they will change shape at will and scream along underground tunnels at twice the speed of sound.  It explains how it is going to be very easy to predict the future of the automobile and also gives some examples of the future automobiles will evolve.  Fifty years from now, most parties would agree that hydrogen fuel cell technology will power the world-everything from artificial organs to cruise ships and most definitely the automobile.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>THE FAR-OUT FUTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATION</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The article describes how for a century, the world has embraced the automobile.  They are used for commuting, vacationing, and the construction of towns and cities.  It describes how vehicles are frequently customized, shown off and traded up.  The yearn for high-tech marvels of tomorrow-the visions of performance, versatility and the efficiency that the automobile industry is forever pursuing are also explained.  The article presents how Popular Science Magazine tapped into leading industry thinkers in order to create their visions of future cars.  It explores and enhances four vehicle types, which are currently vast improvement:  the super-compact urban commuter;  the sport-utility vehicle; the high-performance sportscar and the environmentally friendly family car.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BEHOLD THE ALL-SEEING, SELF-PARKING, SAFETY-ENFORCING, NETWORKED AUTOMOBILE</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article describes how radar lasers, wireless radio networks and other embedded technology will enable future automobiles to sense traffic that is far away and also to stop accidents before they happen and describes who will be driving the vehicle-man or computer.  It defines the future Intelligent Car which may be fitted with sensors and warning signals including:  (1) a mirror that lights up when a car is in the driver's blind spot, (2) a LIDAR sensor that uses laser beams to measure the distance and speed of approaching vehicles; (3) an antenna for communicating with other cars via wireless radio networks; (4) a GPS navigation system that warns the driver of hazards ahead and plots alternative routes; (5) infrared sensors that watch lane makers and signal the driver's seat to vibrate when the car drifts too far to one side; and radar sensors and video cameras that check for potential collisions.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>MR. SINGH'S SEARCH FOR THE HOLY GRAIL</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[American visionaries, cranks and con men have long sought the simple key to boosting the efficiency of the gasoline engine. This article describes how a barefoot tinkerer in India believes that he has unlocked the door.  Is he for real?  It describes how India is booming.  The expanding population has overwhelmed the Bangolaor-Mysore road, the way a river floods its banks, and the flow of two way is choked with a living history of human transportation.  There are belching herds of diesel trucks, diesel buses and iron-framed diesel tractors.  There are wooded-wheel carts pulled by brightly painted Brahama bulls, and two-stroke-motor rickshaws fueled by kerosene or cooking oil or whatever else is flammable and cheap.  There are mopeds and bipeds and bicycles and motorcycles, and every conceivable type of petrol-powered, internally compbusting automobile from doddering Ambassador cabs to gleaming 16-valve Mercedes miracles. The article describes the vehicle that Mr. Singh has invented, or rather re-invented a piece of it:  a small detail on the engine that is called the direct drive, which makes an engine cleaner, quieter, and colder than internal-combustion engines around the world, while using 20 percent less fuel.  His efforts of marketing the direct drive engine are also described.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IS THIS THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE DRIVING?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article describes how advances in engine dynamics, safety systems and handling technology have made the average automobile faster, safer, and more efficient than ever before.  And as a relatively new technology marvels, such as active suspension systems, trickle down through model lines, cars should only get better.  The article also explains that, until America's dependence on foreign oil is overcome, there will always be the possibility of a catastrophic shortage in current vehicle freedoms.  The automobile is faster, smarter and safer than ever before and the statistics from 1970 to present day are outlined.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>THE GURU OF IMPOSSIBLE ENGINEERING CREATES A CAR</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article describes how the materials man, Architect Frank Gehry, in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab are researching the design of new concept car unlike any other that has been developed.  The idea is to leverage the Media Lab's knowledge of advanced technologies and Gehry's knack for building the impossible in order to produce a vehicle that challenges the conventional wisdom of how a car is designed and what it can do. General Motors (GM) has signed on to the project to provide technical support.  Several concept vehicles are introduced: the bubble-like soft car and the accordion car.  The bubble-like car is a foil-quilted car that allows for kinder, gentler traffic jams because the wheels point in any direction, including sideways and diagonally, which makes parallel parking a cinch. The accordion car has a hydraulic device that the stretches the vehicle's skeleton from Mini Cooper to minivan length and it collapses back down for easy parking and storage and its foil-covered pneumatic air bladders on the exterior inflate to provide cushioning in case the car hits a biker or pedestrian.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>THE FUTURE ON FOUR WHEELS-WILD CONCEPTS FROM THE PAST</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article describes the concepts of vehicle design from the past.  They include aerodynamic design of future concept vehicles, alternative sources of power, performance driving vehicle characteristics and the new materials and shapes of the future.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>SPEED. FORMULA NONE. NO RULES: THE ULTIMATE RACECAR</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article describes how, if racecar drivers were not constrained by speed-shifting rules, they would create vehicles of suction that were capable of going over 300 miles per hour, upside down.  It also describes how today's racecars must find a balance between downforce and drag:  too much downforce in the corners leads to drag in the straights.  One way to overcome these compromises is through instantly adjustable aerodynamics. Hybrid vehicles and the race track are also discussed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>SAFETY IN NUMBERS: HOW SAFE ARE YOU IN THAT FIVE-STAR CAR?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article discusses crash tests conducted on motor vehicles to determine their safety.  It notes that the two main crash tests used today - frontal tests (conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - NHTSA) and frontal offset tests (conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety - IIHS) - measure two different parts of a motor vehicle, and frequently give two different results - i.e., if one of the tests gives a good rating the other one will often yield a poorer rating.  It is difficult to determine the overall safety of an automobile, sport utility wagon, or light truck, if the crash test results are disparate.  It is clear that a single rating or ranking system, encompassing results from all the different types of crash tests (including side impact) is strongly needed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>POLLUTION BUSTERS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article describes a new generation of internal combustion engines that exhibit dramatic improvements in fuel economy. Some will have emission control systems so efficient that on a bad air day in Los Angeles, the exhaust from these engines is cleaner than the air the driver is breathing.  Examples of new engine technology and design that are already on the road are the Nissan CA model of the 2001 Sentra, a Honda Accord that meets the Super-Ultra-Low-Emission Vehicle standard, and a GM turbodiesel sport utility vehicle.  On the horizon are other exotic solutions to long-standing engine design issues that could become available on production cars within a decade.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>COMPUTERIZED GAS PEDAL THROTTLES WHEELSPIN</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/492447</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This article briefly describes a smart gas pedal equipped with its own computer.  This new device, referred to as a drive-by-wire system and designed to take over the job of familiar accelerator control cables in cars, will also allow cruise control, speed and rpm limits, and automatic traction control to be programmed right in.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>DRIVE BY WIRE: TESTING AN AUTOMATED HIGHWAY, WE BUCKLE UP IN A BUICK THAT DRIVES ITSELF.</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/495583</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Automated vehicles can execute turns and speed control  without human intervention as in the case of using an automated Buick LeSabre driving on a highway that is controlled by the Global Positioning System. This innovation will help ease traffic congestion]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>THE ABCS OF ABS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Does antilock braking really work as advertised? Exactly what are its capabilities and drawbacks? To find out, Popular Science took two representative ABS-equipped cars (a Honda Accord and a Ford Explorer) to Michigan's upper peninsula to study the system in a broad range of winter-driving exercises.  Based on how the cars reacted to a wide-ranging variety of conditions, the testing provided a dramatic demonstration of how well antilock braking works.  Both vehicles were modified to permit switching their antilock systems on and off.  Tests with and without the system were conducted on four cold-climate surfaces: asphalt, packed snow, glare ice, and a split-traction course with dry pavement under the wheels on one side of the vehicle and ice under the other set.  This articles discusses the results of the tests.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 1998 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FOOTLOOSE SHIFTING</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[With the introduction of lower-cost electronic control units to fine tune clutch action, three promising new electronic clutch systems have emerged from Germany, England, and France.  This article provides a brief description of each.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 May 1991 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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