A new patent from Hyundai points to a stick shift that can change to an automatic shifter and has no physical connection to ...

At Mcity, autonomous cars can learn to drive before facing the real world. This could help Ford speed up production of such vehicles. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

Electric cars don't need multi-speed transmissions but, an an effort to recapture some of the feel of internal-combustion cars, Stellantis is considering making single-speed EV transmissions behave ...

On a warm afternoon last fall, Steven Caron, a technical artist at the video-game company Quixel, stood at the edge of a redwood grove in the Oakland Hills. “Cross your eyes, kind of blur your eyes, ...

NASA's first year-long mock Mars mission has come to an end. That mission, the first in the CHAPEA ("Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog") series, began on June 25, 2023, when four ...

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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...