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2018
Automotive/​Transportation

A Concept for a Low-Cost Rapidly Deployable Autonomous Vehicle Support Infrastructure

Current autonomous systems planned for introduction into public and private transportation rely on the system itself obtaining all the information on its surrounding environment through its own internal sensors and control sub-systems. To minimize external sensor infrastructure cost and maintenance requirements or use of active communications with autonomous systems,

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Carlos Rodriguez
Hollywood, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 3499
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 7, 2018

A Low Cost Overunity Machine that Enables Warp Drive, Feasible Time Travel, Teleportation

This is an updated version of the entry to create the future design contest 2017. This design of increased efficiency has plane A and B in the form of solid rods as in image 1 inclined at 45 degrees and fixed to both the outer diameter of spring SP.

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Gautam Narayan Baruah
Jorhat, India
Votes: 7
Views: 6697
Automotive/​Transportation
Apr 29, 2018

A Novel Design for Vehicle Engine Mount with Friction Damper

THE TECHNOLOGY:

The original mount of the test-vehicle engine is Passive Hydraulic Mount, see Figure 1.(a). The friction damper was added to the original mount in parallell. The modified mount system is a different size than the original one with an additional weight of 200 g. Figure 1(b) shows the friction damper unit of the mount.

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Shawki Seoud
Cairo, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 3479
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 30, 2018

A Promising Method for Estimating the Quality of Motor Oil

The problem of controlling quality of motor oils in the course of their development, production and operation in cars is actual. We propose using a few drops of oil and surface plasmon resonance refractometer “Plasmon-71” (developed in Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics,

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Volodymyr Maslov
Kiev, Ukraine
Votes: 0
Views: 2450
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 25, 2018

Accessing the Inaccessible using Hovercraft

On Accessing the Inaccessible by Hovercraft

As climate change accelerates so also does the difficulty in the navigation of flood plains,

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John Mitchell
Port Colborne, Canada
Votes: 2
Views: 2892
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 26, 2018

Adaptive Sun Shield

At one time or another we have all had to deal with driving into the sun. My idea is to have a small tinted area that is able to follow the blinding sun based on the position relative to the driver.

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Ken Furlich
Cleveland Heights, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 2521
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 29, 2018

Adaptive Thermal Engine

This adaptive thermal engine achieve variation of the displacement and / or the compression ratio to assure optimum combustion conditions and providing power to the load adaptation engine, with direct implications on growth power and reduced consumption.

Advantages of this new technology refer to a continuously / infinitely Variable Compression Ratio &

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Adrian Laculiceanu
Paulesti, Romania
Votes: 22
Views: 5650
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 20, 2018

Advanced Hovercraft....Interim Version

An earlier entry described an ambitious Advanced ACV (Hovercraft).

Design iterations around the XFlo Blower arrangement showed problems which are taking longer than anticipated to resolve.

This interim Design shows the Main Intent of the Concept and incorporates known technologies that are going mainstream via Griffon Hoverwork in the United Kingdom.

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John Mitchell
Port Colborne, Canada
Votes: 1
Views: 3573
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 15, 2018

Aftermarket Super Truck Hybrid Upgrade

Building on the Heavy Duty Aftermarket Super Truck project and the patented Air Management System that delivers up to 10% fuel savings, 50% reduced under-hood heat and restores 65+ horsepower from electrifying the cooling system – comes a new revolutionary solution for the transportation industry.

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Joshua Medling
Sullivan, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 2985
Automotive/​Transportation
Jul 2, 2018

Air Centrifugation Device

The innovative device submitted here is an air centrifugation system, allowing to separate oxygen molecules from nitrogen molecules contained in the air. This device is mainly dedicated to internal combustion engines, more specifically in the field of motor vehicles, and is intended to drastically reduce pollutants and CO2 emissions, while improving fuel efficiency.

Generally speaking,

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Andre Prieur
La Garenne Colombes, France
Votes: 0
Views: 5146
Automotive/​Transportation
Jul 1, 2018

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