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Google unveiled a brand new self-driving car prototype on Tuesday; the first company to build a car with no a steering wheel, accelerator or brake pedal.

The car's arrival marks the next stage in Google's self-driving car project, which was born from the Darpa Grand Challenges for robotic vehicles in the early 2000s. Google kickstarted its own self-driving car project in 2008, and it has been rumbling on ever since, first with modified Toyota Prius and then with customised Lexus SUVs, which took the car's existing sensors, such as the cruise-control cameras, and added a spinning laser scanner on the top.

What is it?

It is the first truly driverless electric car prototype built by Google to test the next stage of its five-year-old self-driving car project. It looks like a cross between a Smart car and a Nissan Micra, with two seats and room enough for a small amount of luggage.

It is the first real physical incarnation of Google's vision of what a self-driving car of the near future could be.

Where is it?

It operates in and around California, primarily around the Mountain View area where Google has its headquarters.

What does it do?

It ferries two people from one place to another without any user interaction. The car is summoned by a smartphone for pick up at the user's location with the destination set. There is no steering wheel or manual control, simply a start button and a big red emergency stop button. In front of the passengers there is a small screen showing the weather, the current speed and a small countdown animation to launch.

Once the journey is done, the small screen displays a message to remind you to take your personal belongings - reinforcing that this is not aiming to be a substitute for your personal car at the moment, but more as a replacement for the taxi without the human driver.

What's it like?

Very few people outside of Google have been allowed to ride in the new car. Most of the people depicted in Google's promotional videos for the new car described the experience as "smooth" and "nothing that feels the least bit threatening".

Kara Swisher and Liz Gannes from technology site Recode were one of the few independent test riders, who described the car as having "ample" room despite being small, likely due to the lack of the normal controls taking up space in the cabin, and "that this felt a lot like a theme park ride".

Who built it?

Google has designed the car from scratch, starting with the sensors and a frame to interconnect them, then adding a cabin that does not block any of the sensors or create blind spots and eventually the body shell. The manufacturing of the 100 or so prototype cars will be done by a firm in the Detroit area, but Google declined to comment on which.

How does it work?

Powered by an electric motor with around a 100 mile range, the car uses a combination of sensors and software to locate itself in the real world combined with highly accurate digital maps. A GPS is used, just like the satellite navigation systems in most cars, to get a rough location of the car, at which point radar, lasers and cameras take over to monitor the world around the car, 360-degrees.

The software can recognise objects, people, cars, road marking, signs and traffic lights, obeying the rules of the road and allowing for multiple unpredictable hazards, including cyclists. It can even detect road works and safely navigate around them.

The new prototype has more sensors fitted to it that can see further (up to 600 feet in all directions) and in greater detail than the ones available on the previous repurposed Lexus and Toyota vehicles.

How safe is it?

The new car is the next evolution of Google's self-driving car. While the new frame is untested, the company's previous versions have clocked up over 700,000 miles of testing on public roads, mainly around California, including over 1,000 miles of driving in the most complex situations and cities like San Francisco's hills and busy streets.

The car itself is limited to 25 mph, which restricts it to certain roads, but also minimises the kinetic energy it could carry into a crash if one should happen. The front of the car is also made to be as kind to pedestrians as possible with a foam bumper and a flexible windscreen that is designed to absorb energy from an impact with a person's body.

Seat belts are also provided - a safety requirement for vehicles on the road - while the car has redundant systems, a "fault-tolerant architecture" as Google calls it, for both steering and braking, should the primary systems fails; plus that emergency stop button that passengers can hit at any time.

Google has also taken the data and behaviours it learned from its previous vehicles to create a defensive, considerate driving style that is meant to protect both the passengers and other road users. For instance, the car will wait a second after the traffic lights turn green before it moves off, although this could incur the anger of drivers stuck behind it.

Google also says that making it drive in a natural and predictable way has been one of the key goals, so that it behaves in a familiar way on the road for other drivers.

Why now?

Google says it has gone as far as it can with the current customised vehicles and that a new platform is needed to take the project and technology to the next step and closer to a product people can actually use.

For instance, the previous generation Lexus vehicle had blind spots right up against the car where the sensors couldn't see, something that needs to be eliminated in any vehicle open to the public.

The cars will first be used to test the software driving the car and push its capabilities. Google says at some point, when it deems its software safe, it will start putting real people into the cars beyond Google engineers. It will use the cars in a similar manner to the company's Google Glass explorer programme, analysing how people use them and what works and what doesn't.

Why do damn cute?

The car's cute looks and friendly "face" were created intentionally to be "very Googley" according to its designers, to put both other road users and passengers at ease with the new technology. The shell is also designed to give the sensors the best view of the surroundings.

Why does it still look like a car on the inside?

The new car has two traditional car seats, primarily because in this iteration passengers have to be strapped in like they would in any other car to meet safety regulations, which means using standard seat belts. It also provides a more familiar passenger experience, which at this stage is likely important to aid adoption.

Is this something I'm going to be able to buy?

Google's vision for this kind of self-driving car isn't an exact replacement for the one parked outside your home. They are designed to be more like shared vehicles, possibly within a family or more likely as a replacement for taxis.

These cars are still very much in the early prototype stage still, and Google is still trying to figure out how to make a product out of the technology, how much it is likely to cost and when it will be available.

Apparently it will not have ads according to Google, although whether it'll eventually have a small screen like some taxis now that plays video adverts, who knows. That will likely be up to the operator rather than Google.

Who will build it for me?

Google is proving the technology, but it is unlikely to make the cars for sale once that technology is ready for the mass market. It has said in the past that it is actively seeking car manufacturing partners, which means we could see a Toyota, Ford or Fiat-made Google car in the future, but that is all very much still up in the air.

When can I get one?

Google says the cars should be road-ready by early next year, but that testing would take more than two years. At that point the technology will be ready for the next stage, which is likely to be greater pilot testing.

Current expectations are that these self-driving cars are at least five years away from being mature enough to create a real, non-prototype product, but it may be far longer until you can buy or hire one for personal use.

What about legislation?

One of the biggest hold-ups to the progression of the technology onto the open road of Britain, the US, Australia and the rest of the world will be legislation.

A law was passed in California over a year ago that made the testing and operation of self-driving vehicles on roads possible, as long as they had manual override controls. The Department of Motor Vehicles in California is expected to issue regulations on the operation of self-driving cars soon, after which self-driving cars may become a bit more common place.

However, there is still much to work out, primarily revolving around what a passenger in a self-driving car and can't do - will they have to be able to take control at any moment, for instance - as well as questions around what happens when an accident happens, who is at fault and who pays.
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Google's self-driving car: How does it work and when can we drive one?

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Google unveiled a brand new self-driving car prototype on Tuesday; the first company to build a car with no a steering wheel, accelerator or brake pedal. The car's arrival marks the next stage in Google's self-driving car project, which was born from the Darpa Grand Challenges for robotic vehicles in the early 2000s.

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10 Astonishing Technologies that Power Google's Self Driving Cars

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Are you ready to be driven by your car itself? So what powers these driverless cars?

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Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility. We are a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.

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It can be applied in socially assistive robots, Virtual Controllers, Remote Control and aid to physically challenged.

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Hey PRANAV and SRIKAR what do you guys think about HYPERLOOP? I think it is a really great idea and a gamechanger for mankind.

Yes, AAKASH I read about your hyperloop concept and found useful. I think GESTURE RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY would bring a new revolution in the field of communication.

So SRIKAR what do you think about PRANAY"S SELF DRIVING CARS isn't it a cool idea?

Self driving cars is a real good area in technology with a lot of scope in it and i have heard that it has drastically reduced accidents in test scenarios

Self driving cars are the future of autonomous technology.Not only does it reduce accidents but it allows parents to spend more time with their children when going to drop them.So you guys do agree that self driving cars are the future ?

Absolutely Pranay we both do agree that SELF driving cars are the future .

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Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road

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We started designing the world's first fully self-driving vehicle to transform mobility, making it easier, safer and more enjoyable for everyone to get around. Now we're ready for the next step of our project: this summer, our prototype vehicles will leave the test track and hit the familiar roads of Mountain View, California, with our safety drivers aboard.

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The Google self-driving car team has been working hard to master self-driving on city streets. We've taught the vehicle to navigate some common scenarios on city streets near Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA. More information available at: http://goo.gl/LKlBZQ

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Behind the Google Self Driving Car Project

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Every year 1.2 million people die worldwide in traffic-related incidents, and over 90% of those accidents are due to human error. The Google self-driving car team hopes to improve people's lives by developing fully self-driving technology that can improve road safety and make it easier for people to get around.

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HYPERLOOP technology can be primarily be tested in transportation area.If successfully implemented this will help bringing about a revolution in this area and it will sure be a huge leap for mankind in terms of technology.

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Thresholding:

Thresholding is the simplest method of image segmentation. From a gray scale image, thresholding can be used to create binary images i.e. image with only black or white colors.

Accelerometer:

An accelerometer is a device that measures changes in gravitational acceleration in a device it may be installed in.

Blob Detection:

In the area of computer vision, blob detection refers to visual modules that are aimed at detecting points and/or regions in the image that differ in properties like brightness or color compared to the surrounding.

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Real Time Hand Gesture Recognition using OpenCV:

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Real Time Hand Gesture Recognition using OpenCV:

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Real Time Hand Gesture Recognition using OpenCV

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Course Project for Computer Vision in SFU. Using Convexity Defects Source Code: https://github.com/zeruniverse/Gesture_Recognition All questions regarding the project should go to GitHub issues: https://github.com/zeruniverse/Gesture_Recognition/issues Please don't ask questions in comments, I won't answer them.

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A matlab program for real time static and dynamic hand gesture recognition. it counts the fingers,detects the direction of motion of hand and virtual mouse also.... Mohammed hafiz pk Arun va Mohammed roshan b Faisal p for queries mhdhafiz90@gmail.com

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INTERCOOLER - any mechanical device used to cool fluids.

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There are no books on gesture recognition technology. I could find many journals and articles. Most of them dealt with hand gesture recognition technology. I have collected journals from DOAJ(Directory of Open Access Journals)

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HYPERLOOP : IS IT CLOSE TO BEING A REALITY

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HYPERLOOP : IS IT CLOSE TO BEING A REALITY

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This is an interview of DIRK AHLBORN CEO of HYPERLOOP and JUMPSTART FUND

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The Hyperloop: How Close Is It to Being Reality?

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Aug 20 -- JumpStarter and Hyperloop CEO Dirk Ahlborn discusses developing the technology to power Hyperloop with Matt Miller on "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg) -- Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/Bloomberg Bloomberg Television offers extensive coverage and analysis of international business news and stories of global importance.

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700 mph in a tube: The Hyperloop experience

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Michael Aranda explains the nuts and bolts of Hyperloop, the new magnet-driven, solar-powered transit system proposed by Spacex genius Elon Musk. Learn how Musk answered three vexing questions to create the transportation of the future -- or maybe the transportation of Futurama. Like SciShow?

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1.What is gesture recognition?

It is a topic in computer science and language technology with the goal of interpreting human gestures via mathematical algorithms.

2. How is it going to work?

It can be conducted with techniques from computer vision and image processing.

3. When it will come into market?

It is expected to come by 2018

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1.What is gesture recognition?

It is a topic in computer science and language technology with the goal of interpreting human gestures via mathematical algorithms.

2. How is it going to work?

It can be conducted with techniques from computer vision and image processing.

3. When it will come into market?

It is expected to come by 2018

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Elon Musk's Hyperloop is going to become a reality, but not quite on the grand scale it was originally conceived for just yet. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has reached an agreement to build a 5-mile (8-km) passenger track for Quay Valley, a proposed "sustainable model town for the 21st century" in California's central valley.

The Hyperloop has been described as a cross between a Concorde, rail gun and an air hockey table. For a full analysis of the design check out Gizmag's earlier coverage, but for now just picture an elevated tube that passenger capsules are able to travel through at velocities approaching the speed of sound.

While the original design was conceived with dreams of whisking passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in only 30 minutes, the planned 5-mile Quay Valley track running alongside Interstate 5 isn't likely to be traveling at the top speeds imagined for the technology. Rather, HTT sees it as a way to create a demonstration Hyperloop that works in the real world, carrying real passengers.

"This installation will allow us to demonstrate all systems on a full scale and immediately begin generating revenues for our shareholders through actual operations," said HTT CEO Dirk Ahlborn.

HTT is an odd sort of decentralized startup with nearly 200 team members that grew out of JumpStartFund, a crowdfunding and online collaboration incubator co-founded by Ahlborn, who is also CEO of the platform. It emerged in late 2013 to spearhead the creation of an actual Hyperloop after Musk made it clear he did not intend to build it on his own.

HTT's plans for a Hyperloop track aren't the only such schemes in the works. Recently, Elon Musk offered to build an "open source" test track in Texas, a move that seemed as much about earning good will to sell Tesla cars direct to consumers in the state as much as anything else (he floated the idea at a transportation conference while on a trip to lobby state legislators to change laws requiring cars be sold through dealers). Another startup called Hyperloop Technologies, with the involvement of big names like Obama campaign strategist Jim Messina and XPrize Foundation chair Peter Diamandis, is looking into building a Hyperloop that could also move cargo around.

But HTT's plans seem to be moving forward at mach speed. Earlier this month the company announced it would be holding an initial public offering later in 2015 to raise US $100 million. Now it says the formal agreement reached with GROW Holdings, the developer of Quay Valley, will allow construction of the track to begin next year.

Quay Valley has been in the works for several years, but the proposal was put on hold when the recession hit in the last decade. Sitting on 7,500 acres (3,035 hectares) halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, it's imagined as a green, self-sustaining, solar-powered hub for logistics, retail and tourism with room for 25,000 homes.

"With Quay Valley, we're creating a community built on economical, environmental and social sustainability, and part of this is seeking to reduce car dependency," said Quay Hays, CEO of GROW Holdings, Inc. "For these reasons, the Hyperloop is the ideal clean community transit system for Quay."

Source: JumpStartFund

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California is getting a Hyperloop, but not where you think

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February 26, 2015 View gallery - 12 images Elon Musk's Hyperloop is going to become a reality, but not quite on the grand scale it was originally conceived for just yet. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has reached an agreement to build a 5-mile (8-km) passenger track for Quay Valley, a proposed "sustainable model town for the 21st century" in California's central valley.

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When Elon Musk unveiled his idea for the Hyperloop in August of 2013, no one seemed sure what the next step would be. The Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO dropped a 57-page alpha white paper on us, noting he didn't really have the time to build a revolutionary transit system that would shoot pods full of people around the country in above-ground tubes at 800 mph.

__Fortunately for futurists and people who enjoy picking apart complicated plans, an El Segundo, California-based startup has taken Musk up on his challenge to develop and build the Hyperloop. __ JumpStartFund combines elements of crowdfunding and crowd-sourcing-bringing money and ideas in from all over the place-to take ambitious ideas and move them toward reality.

When Musk proposed his idea, JumpStartFund was fresh off its beta launch, and taking on the Hyperloop seemed like the perfect way to test the company's approach (and drum up headlines), says CEO Dirk Ahlborn. So they reached out to SpaceX, proposed the project on their online platform, and created a subsidiary company to get to work: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc.

The incorporated entity has a fancy name and all, but it's less a standard company than a group of about 100 engineers all over the country who spend their free time spitballing ideas in exchange for stock options. That said, this isn't a Subreddit trying to solve the Boston Marathon bombing. These gals and guys applied for the right to work on the project (another 100 or so were rejected) and nearly all of them have day jobs at companies like Boeing, NASA, Yahoo!, Airbus, SpaceX, and Salesforce. They're smart. And they're organized.

The team is split into working groups, based on their interests and skills, that cover various aspects of the massive project, including route planning, capsule design, and cost analysis. They work mostly over email, with weekly discussions of their progress. Hierarchy is minimal, but leaders have naturally emerged, says Ahlborn. And if a decision needs to be made, as CEO, he makes the call.

A lot of the work is being done by 25 UCLA students. The school's SUPRASTUDIO design and architecture program partnered with JumpStartFund, and now the students are working on all the design solutions the new transit system would require.

Ahlborn doesn't expect to have the technical feasibility study finished until mid-2015, but he decided to show off what his team has done so far to coincide with the midterm break of the design group at UCLA. So far, the team has made progress in three main areas: the capsules, the stations, and the route.

Here's what we know so far about the Hyperloop JumpStartFund wants to build.

The Route

The group working on finding a suitable route used algorithms that account for things like existing buildings, roads, and geography, and optimize the path for speed and comfort. That means keeping the line as straight as possible. Like in a plane, high speeds alone don't lead to nausea, but if you start turning, you feel the g-forces. The route won't be completely smooth, Ahlborn says, but contrary to the claim of one transportation blogger, "I don't think it's a barf ride."

Musk's proposed Hyperloop route running from San Francisco to Los Angeles came under a lot of criticism: What about earthquakes? Right of way? Crossing the San Francisco Bay? How will you avoid the political struggles that have made the region's in-development high-speed rail system something of a punch line? Ahlborn has the answer: Pick a different route. Los Angeles to Las Vegas is being considered, as are other parts of the US and the world. "We would love to see LA to San Francisco, but our primary goal is to build the Hyperloop." Yes, there are political hurdles. But not everywhere. Not in Dubai.

The UCLA students working on potential routes imagine networks criss-crossing the country, as well as Europe and Asia. This is where things get fanciful: we're at least 10 years away from a commercially viable Hyperloop, and the idea of a national network is hard to imagine. They tacked on the idea of a "Mini Hyperloop," which would offer shorter routes into and around cities.

The Capsules

The team had to make a few changes to the capsules Musk proposed. The Tesla CEO suggested doors that would open upward, but Ahlborn says that's hard to do, since the low-pressure environment of the tube requires fairly heavy doors. So the team decided on what it calls a "bubble strategy." There's the swanky capsule, the one with fancy doors and windows, that pulls into the station. It's the "bubble." Passengers get in, and that capsule enters an outer shell as it's loaded into the tube. The outer shell is built to handle the ride, and has the air compressor and other needed bits.

Don't expect the Hyperloop to end the struggle between the bourgeoisie and proletariat: in addition to capsules made for freight, there will be economy class, and a roomier business class.

The Stations

As the UCLA students imagine it, a passenger would arrive at a station and drop her luggage off with a Kiva robot (the kind Amazon uses in its warehouse). She would pass through security on what seems to be a moving sidewalk going under a metal detector, an idea that sounds tricky when you consider how often people in airports forget to take coins or various terrifying objects out of their pockets. But once through, she would be able to kill time in the lobby doing some shopping, grabbing a bite, using the bathroom, or renting a tablet for the trip. Then she heads to her platform, gets in her assigned seat, and is whisked away.

The Hyperloop would be made of two stacked tubes, in which the capsules travel in opposite directions. When a capsule reaches a station, the bubble slides out sideways and onto the platform, and the passengers unload. Then the capsule is moved to the opposite tube and ready to get going again.

What Remains to Be Done

So JumpStartFund and the UCLA students have made good progress, but there's a lot to figure out before anyone gets to tackle the really fun parts like testing, permitting, and construction. Ahlborn says the questions of how to build the low-pressure tube and the pylons that support it have mostly been solved, and creating the capsules shouldn't be too tricky. The hard part is moving the capsules within the tube, and seeing how fast they can go. To eliminate friction in the tube, Musk proposed using a compressor to create a pocket of air under the capsule. That's the cheapest approach, Ahlborn says, but it has its drawbacks. His team is looking at the possibility of using magnetic levitation and other alternatives. "We want to find the best possible way to make this work."

"I have almost no doubt that once we are finished, once we know how we are going to build and it makes economical sense, that we will get the funds," Ahlborn says, and Musk's cost estimate of $6-10 billion for a 400-mile stretch of Hyperloop is on point, based on the team's work.

Considering the nonsense that's getting venture capital these days, that's not a crazy thing to say, though it will require unusually patient investors. Ahlborn expects to start building the first in a series of prototypes sometime in 2015. A final product "can be built within the decade," Ahlborn says. "That's for sure."

At some point, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies will likely have to shift from this work-when-you-can-but-don't-expect-money model to something a bit more conventional with, you know, employees. But for now, it's a fitting approach: Bring in as many minds as possible to sort through the myriad questions an idea this ambitious presents. This is why Ahlborn's excited about the Hyperloop: It's a huge undertaking. That's why people like Elon Musk, he says: The dude wants to die on Mars and he's actually moving toward the awesome, if macabre, goal. "Other people work on their next app."

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These Dreamers Are Actually Making Progress Building Elon's Hyperloop

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When Elon Musk unveiled his idea for the Hyperloop in August of 2013, no one seemed sure what the next step would be. The Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO dropped a 57-page alpha white paper on us, noting he didn't really have the time to build a revolutionary transit system that would shoot pods full of people around the country in above-ground tubes at 800 mph.

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It sounds insane: Take an enormous hamster tube, suck most of the air from it, insert a hovercraft full of humans and accelerate it to 800 miles per hour.

But according to Patricia Galloway, that wild concept is no dream -- it's very much real.

"The feasibility is done. What we're working on now is moving toward conceptual design," Galloway told FoxNews.com. Thursday morning Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc., a new company Galloway is spearheading, came out of stealth mode to reveal if not a concrete prototype of the futuristic form of transport, at least an outline of what it will take to get there.

If the company succeeds, Hyperloops may someday replace the train and plane as a way to get between points A and B.

'This will revolutionize how we transport people from city to city.'

- Patricia Galloway, former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers

"It's similar to what the Concorde did for air transport," she told FoxNews.com. "This will revolutionize how we transport people from city to city."

As detailed in an August white paper, the transportation concept by SpaceX and Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk is essentially a giant silver bullet shot down a mammoth tube at 800 miles per hour. Called Hyperloop, it would entail sleek pods that travel within low-pressure tubes that are nearly airless. The pods would hover on a cushion of air, floating above thin skis of a custom metal alloy; air sucked in through a front intake on the pod would be compressed and ejected beneath to levitate it above the metal sleeve lining the tube.

Electromagnets would then zap the craft forward at high speeds -- some would say "ludicrous speed," in the words of the classic film "Spaceballs."

But if anyone can do this, it's Galloway.

The first woman president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a former member of the U.S. National Science Board, Galloway has a remarkable history of work on giant, game-changing feats. She worked recently on a $6 billion project to expand the Panama Canal, for example, not to mention a little project to build floodgates around Venice that aim to save the city from rising ocean levels.

Oh, and that $30 billion Crossrail Project to expand London's rail network, one of the largest projects ever tackled in Europe? Yep, you guessed it.

Galloway won't be alone: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. will be co-led by Marco Villa, former director of mission operations for SpaceX, who helped Musk jump-start the world's first and most successfully private spaceflight company. If Hyperloop sounds like rocket science, it may have met its match: Villa actually does rocket science.

A SpaceX spokeswoman told FoxNews.com that Musk wishes the team well, but is not specifically endorsing the company.

The company also announced support from a variety of other business: on board are manufacturing and design company GloCal Network Corporation (GLOCAL) and UCLA Architecture and Urban Design's graduate program SUPRASTUDIO, which will work on urban planning and design. There's also ANSYS, which has run an independent analysis to verify the overall feasibility.

"We have already virtually tested an initial concept of the Hyperloop," said Sandeep Sovani, director of automotive and ground transportation industry at ANSYS, using simulation technology used today by major manufacturers of aircraft, rockets, trains and automobiles.

Money will be necessary, of course, and right now is a sore point. Galloway and Villa are volunteering their time, and the Hyperloop Transportation Technologies company is being announced on JumpStartFund, a crowdfunding site that also helps drum up crowd ideas.

"We call it crowdstorming rather than brainstorming," Dirk Ahlborn, CEO and co-founder of JumpStartFund, told FoxNews.com. "A lot of entrepreneurs have great business ideas but don't have time to work on them."

That's where his company stepped in. Through the platform, a wealth of interested individuals and businesses have expressed interest, he said.

"Several engineering companies have contacted us and said, we have done our preliminary reviews and This seems completely doable and we don't see any issues," Ahlborn said.

They also hinted that larger investors were interested in the project.

According to a new timeline of planned milestones, the company will have an updated whitepaper for release by March that spells out how to build a prototype. That might come as early as the end of 2014,

"I've been fascinated by first-of-a-kind projects," Galloway said.

Jeremy A. Kaplan is Science and Technology editor at FoxNews.com, where he heads up coverage of gadgets, the online world, space travel, nature, the environment, and more. Prior to joining Fox, he was executive editor of PC Magazine, co-host of the Fastest Geek competition, and a founding editor of GoodCleanTech.

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Company plans to turn Hyperloop dream into hypercool reality

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It sounds insane: Take an enormous hamster tube, suck most of the air from it, insert a hovercraft full of humans and accelerate it to 800 miles per hour. But according to Patricia Galloway, that wild concept is no dream -- it's very much real. "The feasibility is done.

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More than a year ago, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk put out a white paper describing the "hyperloop," a supersonic transportation system that he claimed could carry passengers between at up to 800 miles per hour. And better still, it could be built for just 1/10th the cost of California's proposed high-speed rail. Twenty-two months later, that rail system has started construction and Musk has returned to running his companies -- as he promised to do. But Musk's vision was too tempting to just leave sitting for Dirk Ahlborn. He founded Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to pick up the idea and run with it. And today, Ahlborn and his team of more than 100 researchers, students and experts are out with a much more detailed design for the hyperloop. Their conclusion? A Hyperloop in California could be built within a decade, for between $7 and $16 billion and there are no technical showstoppers, Ahlborn says.

In other words, while Musk's initial estimate of $4 billion was somewhat optimistic, it wasn't exceptionally far off, especially given that Ahlborn believes the ultimate number for the hyperloop between San Francisco and Los Angeles would come in toward the lower end of the range. And even with a worst-case scenario that would require an additional $2.6 billion for land acquisition rights, the total bill would still be less than a third of the $68 billion the California high-speed raid is expected to cost. The projects aren't directly comparable -- the high-speed rail would offer service to more than a dozen cities between the endpoints, the hyperloop wouldn't -- but then again, only the hyperloop can outrun a 737 on the trip.
The technical problems aren't serious
Ahlborn is aware that there are still skeptics out there. "People always compare us to building a spaceship," he says. "For me, it's not building a space ship. We know it's possible." They've actually vetted the engineering of the most expensive part of the design: the tubes and the pylons on which they'll be built. Currently, the thinking is a stacked design with one tube for travel in each direction. Musk's original design envisioned side-by-side tubes, but the Hyperloop Technologies' team determined the stacked design would actually be stronger.

There are still open questions about the vehicles that will run inside the tubes -- the "spaceship" part. Ahlborn is convinced they are solvable problems, but he admits that the team doesn't yet know all the answers. Musk wanted to run the pods on cushions of air emerging from rails beneath them. That would create a great deal of turbulence inside the tubes, which are under very low air pressure to allow the pods to move at high speeds. Solutions including magnetically levitating the vehicles are being examined.

Still, Ahlborn notes that with sufficient time and the ability to continue engineering work, a final design could be reached in short order. His group is presenting at a conference in Dubai early next year and the emirate seems like a perfect candidate for this kind of far-out technology. If not for the collapse in oil prices, someone might just commission a hyperloop for the Middle East once they see the progress Ahlborn's team has made.
Hyperloops across the land
In the meantime, though, much of the work has focused on the U.S. and what might be possible here. That means looking at busy corridors where there's lots of short-haul air traffic or tremendous amounts of automobiles trying to make it a few hundred miles. In addition to San Francisco-Los Angeles, the hyperloop group looked at Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas; Dallas-San Antonio-Austin-Houston; and Boston-New York-Philadelphia-Washington. Many of the travel times are even more tantalizing than the 41 minutes from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

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Hyperloop Reality Check: Elon Musk's High-Speed Scheme Is Alive And Kicking

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More than a year ago, Elon Musk unveiled his design for a high-speed transportation system he called the Hyperloop. A group based in Southern California took the idea and turned that vision into something they believe can actually be built. It seems like it can work, but will anyone come up with the billions needed to turn it into reality?

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It has been two and a half months since Elon Musk released his design for Hyperloop -- the futuristic transit system intended to get you from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes. But now those grand plans seem more than a pipe dream.

JumpStartFund, a crowdsourcing and crowdfunding website, today announced the birth of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc.

Dirk Ahlborn, the CEO of JumpStartFund, said his company reached out to Musk shortly after he announced his plans for Hyperloop. "They were happy to put the Hyperloop project on our website," he told ABC News. "We work with a community that gives us lots of opinions and ideas, and the community wants to make this happen."

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JumpStartFund has been recruiting people to work on the Hyperloop project. Last month, two top engineers were named as the project's official leaders: Marco Villa, former director of mission operations for SpaceX, and Patricia Galloway, former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Now the two engineers are not just leading a project but a company.

"Marco and I are trying to determine who the best leads are for each of the various aspects of the Hyperloop," said Galloway. "How we're doing it is revolutionary for a megaproject like this." While Galloway and Villa are still on the search for the right people, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies already has partnerships in place to put the plan into action.

Ansys, an engineering simulation software developer, previously released a feasibility study on whether the Hyperloop could actually be built, and will continue its work on the project. GloCal, a company that specializes in advanced materials, has agreed to share its knowledge and resources to support Hyperloop. Finally, Suprastudio, an architecture program affiliated with UCLA, will investigate the urban planning aspects of Hyperloop, such as where the stations should be located in the two cities. "We have people working on it every day," says Ahlborn. "Hyperloop is an official company now."

The company expects to have a completed white paper, a document that answers all the questions of whether or not the project is feasible, by the end of March 2014. In addition, the company is planning for a prototype design in June, with the first demo slated for early 2015.

But even a project as ambitious as Hyperloop is still a startup. "No one is getting paid right now," said Villa. "But everyone who participates with a specific aspect gets stock options in exchange for their contributions. In my opinion, people prefer to work on things that matter instead of things that get them high pay."

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Hyperloop Prototype Design Set for June 2014

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It has been two and a half months since Elon Musk released his design for Hyperloop -- the futuristic transit system intended to get you from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes. But now those grand plans seem more than a pipe dream.

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JumpStartFund-Backed ‘Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc’ Publishes Hyperloop Development Milestones and Partners with ANSYS, GLOCA

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This is from the site of hyperloops tech team. The team that is behind making the impossible possible

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Hyperloop will reinvent transportation to eliminate the barriers of distance and time. Hyperloop One will move people and goods, and unlock unprecedented value for governments, businesses, and consumers

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This is from site http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop. SPACEX is the company owned by ELON MUSK who first put forth this idea

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SpaceX is revolutionizing terrestrial transportation through its Hyperloop services. The company currently provides these services to innovators and universities across the world interested in high-speed transportation technology and solutions. The Hyperloop system built by SpaceX at its headquarters in Hawthorne, California, is approximately one mile in length with a six foot outer diameter.

In order to accelerate the development of functional prototypes and encourage student innovation, SpaceX announced the Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2015, which challenges university teams to design and build the best transport Pod. The first two competitions were held in January and August 2017 and were the first of their kind anywhere in the world.

Based on these successes, SpaceX has moved forward with the third installment: the 2018 Hyperloop Pod Competition. The competition will focus on a single criterion-maximum speed. Additionally, all Pods must be self-propelled.

The competition will take place on July 22, 2018 and is open to both new and returning student teams.

Note: This competition is a SpaceX event. SpaceX has no affiliation with any Hyperloop companies, including, but not limited to, those frequently referenced by the media.

2018 COMPETITION TEAM ROSTER (AS OF FEBRUARY 2018)

MAIN COMPETITION TEAMS

Keio Alpha

Keio University

AZLoop

Arizona State University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Delft Hyperloop

Delft University of Technology

HyperXite

University of California, Irvine

Michigan Hyperloop

University of Michigan

Berkeley Hyperloop

University of California, Berkeley

Hyperloop at Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech

EPFLoop

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

WARR Hyperloop

Technische Universität München

Purdue Hyperloop

Purdue University

Hyperloop UPV

Universitat Politècnica de València

Hyperloop at VCU

Virginia Commonwealth University

DiggerLoop

Colorado School of Mines

UW Hyperloop

University of Washington

HyperPodX

University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer and Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

ÉirLoop

Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology Tallaght, Maynooth University, Carlow Institute of Technology (CIT)

Texas Guadaloop

The University of Texas at Austin

Badgerloop

University of Wisconsin-Madison

HYPED

University of Edinburgh

LEVITATION SUB-COMPETITION TEAMS

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SpaceX is revolutionizing terrestrial transportation through its Hyperloop services. The company currently provides these services to innovators and universities across the world interested in high-speed transportation technology and solutions. The Hyperloop system built by SpaceX at its headquarters in Hawthorne, California, is approximately one mile in length with a six foot outer diameter.

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Q 1 = What is the basic principle behind self driving cars ?

ans The key to Google's success has been that these cars aren't forced to process an entire scene from scratch. Instead, their teams travel and map each road that the car will travel. And these are not any old maps.

Q 2 =How are self driving cars safer than normal cars ?

When did this research begin ?

Will it help to decrease the road accidents ?

Can these cars help in reducing the pollution?

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Gehrig, Stefan K.; Stein, Fridtjof J. (1999). Dead reckoning and cartography using stereo vision for an autonomous car. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 3. Kyongju. pp. 1507–1512. doi:10.1109/IROS.1999.811692. ISBN 0-7803-5184-3.

Patrick Lin (October 8, 2013). "The Ethics of Autonomous Cars". The Atlantic.

"How mobility innovations could re-shape our cities". Tea after Twelve. Retrieved September 2014.

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Self Driving Cars , as the mane suggests , are the cars which can be driven without any human interface . Basically these cars have cameras with 360 degree view , radars and lasers which establish locations of other cars in viscinity and Google maps and GPS for navigation . Car processes both map and servre information to determine where it is in the world .On board Sensors detectobjects and classifies them based on their size , shape and movement pattern. The software chooses a safe speed and a trajectory for the car . There are many self driven cars undergoing tests right now Prominent cars among them is "Google Self Driven Cars" , a project by Google X. It uses technologies like LIDAR [ Laser Range Finder ] , which is rotating roof of camera , which heats 3D images of objects and can also calculate distances of objects from the car , front camera for near vision , Bumper Mounted Radar , Aerial on the rear that determines locations, ultrasonic sensors on the rear wheels . Inside the car are Gyroscope Altimetres and Tachymetres that determines precise position of the car . There are also others in the market like those of volkswagen , Lexus and Apple's Titan , etc . There drawbacks includes cost and legal issues . But on the whole , they are energy efficient and a lot more safer .

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Imagine getting in your car, typing or speaking a location into your vehicle's interface, then letting it drive you to your destination while you read a book, surf the web or nap. Self-driving vehicles - the stuff of science fiction since the first roads were paved - are coming, and they're going to radically change what it's like to get from point A to point B.
Basic Technology Already In Use
"The building blocks of driverless cars are on the road now," explained Russ Rader, senior v.p. of communications at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. He pointed to the front-crash prevention systems that for several years have been able to warn drivers of an impending obstacle and apply the brakes if they don't react fast enough.

These systems were quickly followed by technology allowing cars to self-park by sizing up a free spot and automatically steering into it, with the driver only controlling the accelerator and brake pedals. Mercedes-Benz took autonomous driving even further with last year's unveiling of a steering system that works on the highway, in certain circumstances.

The first big leap to fully autonomous vehicles is due in 2017, when Google Inc. ( GOOG) said it would have an integrated system ready to market. Every major automotive manufacturer is likely to follow by the early 2020s, though their systems could wind up being more sensor-based, and rely less on networking and access to map information. Google probably wont manufacture cars. More likely, it'll license the software and systems.
A Drastic Change
As with the adoption of any new revolutionary technology, there will be problems for businesses that don't adjust fast enough. Futurists estimate that hundreds of billions of dollars (if not trillions) will be lost by automakers, suppliers, dealers, insurers, parking companies, and many other car-related enterprises. And think of the lost revenue for governments via licensing fees, taxes and tolls, and by personal injury lawyers and health insurers.

Who needs a car made with heavier-gauge steel and eight airbags (not to mention a body shop) if accidents are so rare? Who needs a parking spot close to work if your car can drive you there, park itself miles away, only to pick you up later? Who needs to buy a flight from Boston to Cleveland when you can leave in the evening, sleep much of the way, and arrive in the morning?

Indeed, Google's goal is to increase car utilization from 5-10% to 75% or more by facilitating sharing. That means fewer cars on the road. Fewer cars period, in fact. Who needs to own a car when you can just order a shared one and it'll drive up minutes later, ready to take you wherever you want?

"This [has the potential to] dramatically reduce the number of cars on the street, 80% of which have people driving alone in them, and also a household's cost of transportation, which is 18% of their income - around $9,000 a year - for an asset that they use only 5% of the time," said Robin Chase, the founder and CEO of Buzzcar, a peer-to-peer car sharing service, and co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar.

In 2030, self-driving cars are expected to create $87 billion worth of opportunities for automakers and technology developers, said a report by Boston-based Lux Research. Software developers stand to win big.
A Car Manufacturing Revolution
If you're an automaker, such as Ford Motor Co. ( F), General Motors Co. ( GM), Chrysler Group LLC, Toyota Motor Corp. or Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ( HMC), which account for about 70% of the U.S. market, you could see an initial surge in the $600 billion in annual new and used car sales in the U.S. But as soon as the technology takes hold, sales could fall off significantly as sharing popularizes.

Cars will always need steel, glass, an interior, a drivetrain and some form of human interface (even if that interface is little more than a wireless connection to your smartphone). But much of everything else could change. As an example, take front-facing seats; they could become an option, not a requirement. Automakers that see change coming, such as how the big profits are secured downstream by car servicers, insurers and more, are focusing on services as much as on what and how they manufacture.
Infrastructure Transformation
With fewer cars around, parking lots and spaces that cover roughly a one-third of the land area of many U.S. cities can be repurposed. That could mean temporary downward pressure on real estate values as supply increases. It could also mean greener urban areas, as well as revitalized suburbs, as longer commutes become more palatable. And if fewer cars are on the road, the federal and state governments may be able to reallocate a good portion of the roughly $30 billion spent annually on highways.
Changing Oil Demand
If you're in the business of finding, extracting, refining and marketing hydrocarbons, such as Exxon Mobil Corp. ( EOX), Chevron Corp. ( CVX) or BP plc ( BP), you could see your business fluctuate as use changes.

"These vehicles should practice very efficient eco-driving practices, which is typically about 20% better than the average driver," said Chase "On the other hand, if these cars are owned by individuals, I see a huge rise in the number of trips, and vehicle miles traveled. People will send out their car to run errands they would never do if they had to be in the car and waste their own time. If the autonomous cars are shared vehicles and people pay for each trip, I think this will reduce demand, and thus (vehicle miles traveled)."
Safety Dividend
Autonomous vehicles are also expected to be safer. "These cars won't get drunk or high, drive too fast, or take unnecessary risks - things people do all the time," Chase said.

"Over 90% of accidents today are caused by driver error," said Professor Robert W. Peterson of the Center for Insurance Law and Regulation at Santa Clara University School of Law. "There is every reason to believe that self-driving cars will reduce frequency and severity of accidents, so insurance costs should fall, perhaps dramatically."

"Cars can still get flooded, damaged or stolen," notes Michael Barry, the v.p. of media relations at the Insurance Information Institute. "But this technology will have a dramatic impact on underwriting. A lot of traditional underwriting criteria will be upended."

Barry said it's too early to quantify exactly how self-driving vehicles will affect rates, but added that injured parties in a crash involving a self-driving car may choose to sue the vehicle's manufacturer, or the software company that designed the autonomous capability.

Initially, insurers such as State Farm Insurance, Allstate Corp. ( ALL), Liberty Mutual Group, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s ( BRK-A) GEICO, Citigroup Inc.'s ( C) Travelers Group could see a huge benefit from lower accident liabilities, but wind up losing a big portion of the $200 billion in personal auto premiums they write every year as fewer cars take to the road. Some have even speculated that mandatory insurance for cars could be dropped. And as long as we're talking about financial services, what of the multitude of banks and creditors that lend buyers money in about 70% of car purchases if sales volume falls?

According to a University of Texas report, if only 10% of the cars on U.S. roads were autonomous, more than $37 billion of savings could be realized via less wasted time and fuel, as well as fewer injuries and deaths. At 90%, the benefit rises to almost $450 billion a year.
Closer to Home
Self-driving cars could have a substantial impact on the taxi and limousine industries and could create new ones. Chase noted that they could be used to share specific trips as a kind of pay-as-you-go small-scale public transportation - taking a disparate bunch of Manhattanites to the beach in the Hamptons, for instance.

One study found that a fleet of 9,000 driverless taxis could serve all of Manhattan at about 40 cents per mile (compared to about $4-6 per mile now). There are licenses for over 13,000 taxis in the Big Apple now.

Self-driving cars may also challenge train lines. "A self-driving car offers much of the convenience of rail service with the added convenience that the service is portal-to-portal rather than station-to-station," Peterson said. "On the other hand, a fleet of self-driving cars available at the station may make rail service more palatable. "The technology has already been adopted in closed systems, such as campuses, air-terminals and mining," he noted. " Rio Tinto Group ( RIO), a large mining company, uses enormous self-driving trucks in its mining operations. European countries are experimenting with the platooning of trucks. Among other things, this saves about 18% in fuel."
Risks, Hurdles and the Unknown
There are regulatory and legislative obstacles to widespread use of self-driving cars, and substantial concerns about privacy (who will have access to any driving information these vehicles store?). There's also the question of security, as hackers could theoretically take control of these vehicles, and are not known for their restraint or civic-mindedness.
The Bottom Line
However it plays out, these vehicles are coming - and fast. Their full adoption will take decades, but their convenience, cost, safety and other factors will make them ubiquitous and indispensable. Such as with any technological revolution, the companies that plan ahead, adjust the fastest and imagine the biggest will survive and thrive. And companies invested in old technology and practices will need to evolve or risk dying.

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How Google's Self-Driving Car Will Change Everything | Investopedia

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Imagine getting in your car, typing or speaking a location into your vehicle's interface, then letting it drive you to your destination while you read a book, surf the web or nap. Self-driving vehicles - the stuff of science fiction since the first roads were paved - are coming, and they're going to radically change what it's like to get from point A to point B.

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A gesture is a form of non-verbal communication in which visible body actions communicate particular messages, either in place of speech or together and in parallel with words. Gestures include movement of the hands, face or other parts of the body.

Gesture recognition is an interface with computers using gestures of the human body, typically hand movements.

There are basically three important gesture recognition

1) Hand Gesture Recognition : It uses a series of finger and hand movements.

2) Facial Gesture Recognition : It uses facial expressions.

3) Sign Language Recognition: It uses signs.

Gesture Sensing Technology are of two types.

1) Contact type:

a) Touch based gestures

2) Non-contact type:

a) Device Gesture Technologies: It uses glove, styles or other position tracker whose movements send signals.

b) Vision Based technologies:

There are two types.

i) Model based techniques: They try to create a 3D model of users hand and use this for recognition.

ii) Image based techniques: It detects a gesture by capturing pictures of a user's motion during course of a gesture.

iii) Electrical field sensing: Proximity of a human body or body part can be measured by sensing electrical fields.

Wired gloves, Stereo cameras, Depth-aware cameras, Thermal cameras, single camera are the things that are used in gesture recognition technology.

Gesture Recognition Technology can be used for socially assistive robots, Virtual Controllers, Remote Control and aid to physically challenged.

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Hyperloop is a topic where we can't get books or appropriate journals from which to collect information.So my primary sources of information were the website of spaceX company owned by ELON MUSK and certain other website describing in detail about the project connecting SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES.

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1 What is the timeframe for this project to be realized?
ANS The test model will be built by 2018.
2 How does it help solve current transportation scenario?
ANS This technology promises high speeds , as a result transport duration is reduced drastically.
3 Who pitched this idea?
ANS ELON MUSK
4 When and whywas this idea pitched?
ANS When Government of USA proposed to build a high speed corridor (bullet train )between SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES , ELON MUSK proposed to build this hyperloop at an approximate same cost and that too at almost 1/4 th of the duration of that by bullet train.
5 Where is this being implemented?
ANS In USA between SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES.
6 What is the estimated cost?
ANS $100 billion.

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HYPERLOOP is a conceptual high speed transportation system put forward by ELON MUSK. It incorporates reduced pressure tubes in which capsules ride on an air tube. It has several components like: CAPSULE which carries passengers and travels along the interior of the tube. The capsules are supported by air bearings that operate using a compressed air reservoir and aerodynamic lift..TUBE is made of steel and is solar powered which power the capsules. The capsules are accelerated by linear accelerators constructed along the length of the tube.Frontal area has been minimized to optimize performance and capsule speed.COMPRESSOR allows capsule to traverse the relatively narrow tube without choking flow and supports weight of capsule throughout the journey.GEOMETRY of the tube depends on passenger version of hyperloop or passenger plus vehicle version of hyperloop.In the event of a minor leak, on board environmental control system would maintain capsule pressure or oxygen masks will be deployed. The only drawback of this is the high cost butt the potential and the capabilities are huge like faster and environmental friendly mode of transport,reduced oil dependence,energy efficient travel,decreased pollution,etc.This project if completed would be an important milestone for mankind.