crashes
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This Sensorless Flying Robot Is Like A Drunken Speeder Bike Orb
After putting its rovers on Mars, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab showed the world that billion dollar hardware isn’t always the answer. And researchers at the EPFL are taking the same technology-on-the-cheap approach with a low-cost autonomous flying drone that simply bumps and crashes into everything in its path instead of relying on expensive sensors and…
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Designing A Dumb Flying Robot That Can Safely Crash Is Easier And Cheaper
As the story goes, when farmers were looking for a better way to deliver tomatos undamaged, they just engineered a more resilient vegetable. And that’s basically the same approach being taken by crash-friendly flying robot researchers at the EPFL.
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How Did No One Die In This Horrific Crash?
When first responders arrived at the scene of a crash on Indiana’s Sam Jones Expressway they saw the type of accident firefighters dread: A dozen crushed cars and an overturned 18-wheeler. Amazingly, there wasn’t a single fatality. How? [Jalopnik]
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Watch This Insta-Roadblock Murderise A 6800kg Truck
If you like your vehicle carnage fast and total, then you’ll probably just maybe be slightly interested in seeing what the Barrier1 Vehicle Arrestor does to a 6800kg truck travelling at 80km/h. Spoiler: it’s a bad day to be a truck.