Autos: New Law mandates “kill switch” on all new vehicles sold in 2027
Law Will Install Kill Switches In All New Cars for all new vehicles sold beginning in 2027. Requires that vehicles automatically determine if a driver is impaired and refuse to…
Demographics, Automation: McDonald’s adds more automation to new restaurant form factor concept
The fast-food giant is trying an idea that Starbucks has already been successful with. Source: McDonald’s Launches a Whole New Kind of Restaurant – TheStreet As previously stated here, the…
Demographics: Automation is developed in response to aging workforce
Bingo You might think robots and other forms of workplace automation gain traction due to intrinsic advances in technology — that innovations naturally find their way into the economy. But…
Automation, Demographics: “Automated Farms Are Coming”
Automation is here and growing rapidly: Research company Brandessence predicts that the market for autonomous farm equipment will reach $155 billion by 2027, two and a half times its value…
Emerging Tech: Are we now “Beyond Beyond Meat”?
As noted here previously, they were marketing fake “meat” to meat consumers, in the meat department, at twice or thrice the price. Vegetarians are not generally looking for any meat,…
Climate: How climate issues will really be addressed
Voluntarily. Mostly. By people doing what we’ve done: I strongly suspect that most “forced” climate initiatives will accomplished next to nothing and will be as effective as public health was…
EVs: Not all countries can drop gas vehicles so soon
Toyoda and other company executives have said all-electric vehicles aren’t viable for many drivers – especially in the foreseeable future – as not all areas of the world will adopt…
Models: Company claims it can accurately predict wildfire risk
“Models” – this is a model whose input includes the output from other unproven models: Nobody can predict the future, but a San Francisco-based startup called Kettle seems able to…
Energy: Partially wind powered coal carrying cargo ship (?)
Drops typical fuel usage from 500,000 Liters to 475,000 liters – so it can carry coal. What? This is confusing. The world’s first partly wind-powered bulk carrier sailed to the…
Automation: Robot gardener illustrates robotic capabilities
Click through to watch the short video: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/interestingengineering_let-this-robot-gardener-do-the-hard-work-activity-6991060844142858240–p-M Automation is rapidly becoming capable of doing many tasks previously thought too difficult or too expensive. This is how we will address…