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Curated By: Shahrukh ShahLast Updated: February 02, 2024, 09:23 ISTRepresentational image. (File photo)The NHAI said the prime minister on Saturday will dedicate three transformative highway projects built at a cost of Rs 2,045 crore.Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate a Rs 400-crore permanent campus of IIM Sambalpur, power projects worth Rs 28,978 crore and National Highway projects built at a cost of Rs 2,045 crore during his one-day visit to Odisha on February 3, official sources said.The PM is…

If you’re driving on the freeway around Phoenix anytime soon, keep your eyes peeled for a car driving itself. Waymo will start testing its autonomous vehicles on Arizona highways this month, the company announced Monday. The driverless robotaxi service, from the same parent company as Google, is branching out from local routes and will start traveling at much higher speeds, breaking new ground for self-driving cars.Cops Pull Over Self-Driving CarWaymo conducted its first driverless ride in 2015 when a blind man in Austin…

Competition to advance L3 autonomous driving technology is revving up in China, as a fresh batch of automakers is now being allowed to test their self-driving systems on highways and expressways. Among the latest is Chinese vehicle giant BYD, which has joined Mercedes and BMW in receiving permits to test their L3 technology on high-speed roads. BYD just announced that it has received permits to test vehicles with L3 autonomous driving systems on high-speed roads in Shenzhen. The automaker was…

Overloaded vehicles and those with loads protruding/hanging are a traffic hazard, risking accidents for themselves and other road users. Representational image/ReutersA parliamentary standing committee recommended that the implementation of a weigh-in-motion system to issue automated challans/penalties would eliminate the possible collusion of corrupt officials with heavy vehicle owners and help curb the menace of overloadingHighlighting the issue of overloaded vehicles on national highways, the ministry of road transport…

The Council of the EU has adopted new rules intended to make it much easier for EV owners to travel across Europe, while simultaneously helping to reduce the output of harmful greenhouse gases.The new regulation is set to benefit owners of electric cars and vans in three ways: It reduces range anxiety by expanding the EV charging infrastructure along Europe’s main highways, it makes payments “at the pump” easier, and ensures pricing and availability is clearly communicated to avoid surprises.From 2025 onward, the new…

Representational image ( (Photo: Nitin Gadkari Twitter)Some reports claim that if everything will go as per the plan, these national projects might get complete by 2025.The Indian government has been working to build a better and faster roads or expressways for the vehicles. The report says the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways of India has already created a road map, under which it will work 1.8 on creating lakh kilometers of national highways, which not only will cut down travel time but also will save the cost of…

Researchers have developed a new nanocomposite film using an electrospinning method that could potentially solve the problem of heat generation in compact, powerful electronics. The heat, which can cause slower processing and abrupt shutdowns, is effectively dissipated by the film, four times more efficiently than similar materials. (Artists’ concept of “heat highways” for electronics.)A research team has developed a nanocomposite film that dissipates heat four times more effectively than existing materials, offering a…

Image Source : FREEPIK Toll tax hike: Highway and expressway rates will rise beginning April 1 The highway tolls will be raised by more than 10% across the country, the National Highway Authority of India has issued a notification for the same. Tolls are tied to the Wholesale Price Index of inflation and are adjusted in response to changes in that index. The…

Amazon’s evolution from omnipresent shopping platform to omnipresent surveillance platform continues apace, having drastically expanded its line of Ring security camera systems in recent years. Nowadays, the company offers video doorbells, exterior cameras, interior cameras, flying cameras, lighting systems, alarm systems and vehicle security packages — the lattermost of which is why we are here today. I put a Ring camera in my car. That’s not to say that the Ring Car Camera is a poorly designed or manufactured product —…

Edited By: Pritha MallickLast Updated: March 05, 2023, 16:26 ISTIn July 2019, the average daily collection from FASTag was Rs 11.2 crore. In February 2020, the daily average fee collection was Rs 80 crore that further jumped to Rs 104 crore in February 2021. (Shutterstock)Cars and light vehicles will be charged an additional 5 per cent per trip and the toll tax for heavy vehicles may increase by 10 per centTravelling on national highways and expressways could become a bit more expensive from April 1 as the National…