Hero to Zero
The electric car journey starts with Henry Ford’s Model T, writes Brian Twomey Henry Ford once railed against early attempts to control the pollution coming from the exhaust of his Model T. When his car became popular enough that traffic became a problem Ford found himself facing baffling questions about something called emissions. They want the air coming out the back to be cleaner than the air going in he fumed. That said, Henry...
Driverless Cars and Intelligent Traffic Lights
As new technology enabling cars to turn traffic lights green is launched we look at the impact on driverless cars writes Geraldine Herbert A new technology which allows traffic lights to ‘talk’ directly to motorists is being trialled by the North East Ambulance Service in Newcastle. Through a small device on the windscreen cars can request a green light from a traffic light when it is within 100 metres. For the patients...
