Self Driven Car !

Nissan has been working on self-driving vehicles for years at its Japanese R&D Centers, & now plans to step up its investment in the technology, including a new proving ground dedicated to autonomous vehicles.

The company also recently opened an advanced technology center in California's Silicon Valley that is.working on autonomous vehicles.

Other automakers also are working on self-driving vehicles, which would allow drivers to take their hands & eyes off the road and rely on technology to safely guide the vehicles.

Mechanical Elephant

This Amazing Mechanical Design was made out of Transmission parts, Electrical conduits, Plumbing pipes & 20-gauge Cold Rolled Steel.
It is 36" x 36" x 18" & Weighs about 85 pounds. All the joints move & lock in place, turning a gear on the Elephant's side winds a cable around a Shaft which raises and lowers the Trunk, the ears move back & forth and can fan out to dissipate heat.

A 9000-Pound Tank That’s Faster Than a Ferrari

After drones took over the skies, Ripsaw is now taking control over land.

Ripsaw is the world’s fastest tracked vehicle produced by Howe & Howe Technologies in Maine. Unlike other unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), which are slow, Ripsaw can accelerate to 65 mph in about 3 seconds . By comparison, the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta can accelerate to 62 mph in 3.1 seconds.

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One Wheeled Motorcycle !!!

Do you have read about Gyroscope in Mechanical Engineering?
If yes, then it is the best example of what a gyroscope can do.

The Uno motorcycle is unlike anything you have ever seen before. According to the nytimes, A 19-year-old freshman, Ben Gulak is the inventor of Uno. This is an electric motorcycle that has two wheels side by side in the place of fore and aft and the motorcycle achieves balance using using a gyroscope and computer.

The Gyroscope technology is similar like Segway, It balances on two wheels that present right next to each other. When you push your body weight forward, the Uno goes forward. In the same way it goes backward when rider push his body weight backward. It is very simple to operate that there are no more controls in Uno except for an on-off switch. The gyroscope gives automatic instruction to the ECU how much to acceleration should be, and how much the proper amount of power is delivered to the Uno wheels through electric motors, one for each wheel.