The Technic Alley

That was Microsoft’s famous slogan some years ago, but very soon that may be the question your car asks you, as soon as you get in and buckle up.
“Innovation comes ‘Standard’” claims Microsoft in a recent press release about its new Auto 4.0 platform that was announced at the CeBit and Embedded World conferences, during [...]

Working from home using Telepresence can be greener than you’d imagine!

From Dilbert.com Feb, 22, 2009.

While writing posts for the article The Car That Drives Itself, I have been wondering about all possible reactions to a topic like this. Then I realized that this is a great example to illustrate the idea of Edward de Bono’s Six Hats.
If you had six people wearing the six different hats sitting in a [...]

San Jose, CA. 8.02 AM
You walk into the meeting room. You greet others in the room “Good Morning, Gentlemen!”
Someone says, “Good Evening, Joe!”
You think it is a dig at you because you were late for the 8.00 AM meeting. You protest, “Oh come on! I am only a couple of minutes late! With my commute, [...]

This post is an article that lists the collection of posts on this topic written so far in this blog.

Catch Up On Your Sleep While Driving
Cars On Autopilot
How Would You Put Your Car On Autopilot?
A Six Hats Perspective
More to follow…

This is a continuation from the post Cars On Auto-Pilot.
Here is one possible way:

Set destination information on GPS.
Start driving to the nearest auto-pilot enabled freeway.
Autopilot enabled freeway has multiple lanes. The rightmost lane, from where you enter or exit is Lane 0.
Lane 0 – Manual control when you enter, but cars will not go faster [...]

If you found my earlier post Catch Up On Your Sleep While Driving interesting, then this one is for you.
Why Autopilot?
Let’s say you are on your way to some place that is a good 40 miles away, and that’s mostly on a freeway. If you were the passenger, you could read a book, catch [...]

“Isn’t that crazy??!!”
Yes, it is!! It is dangerous! If you are talking about today, that is. You don’t want to sleep at the wheel, but what’s wrong in dreaming? (pun intended)
Imagine this.
Today you have a GPS that knows where you are, where you want to go, which way to go, where to turn, which lane [...]