Anarchy on India’s Roads Has Driverless Car in a Jam

Anarchy on India’s Roads Has Driverless Car in a Jam

Race To Build Self-Driving Cars Accelerates

At a secret testing track outside Bangalore, an arm of the Tata conglomerate is recreating the jumble of Indian roads to develop an autonomous driving system.

That means accounting for pedestrians darting through traffic at will, numerous lanes that merge without warning, poor signage and stray cattle continuous on the roadside. (more…)

Africa braced for snakebite crisis: Nature News – Comment

Africa braced for snakebite crisis

Health specialists warn that stocks of antivenom will run out in 2016.

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The deadly carpet viper (Echis ocellatus).

Rural Africa is facing a resurgence of a persistent plague that uncommonly makes headlines: snakebite.

By June next year, stockpiles of the anti-venom that is most effective against Africa’s vipers, mambas and cobras are expected to run out because the only company that makes the medicine has stopped production. (more…)

Aero 8

> three wheeler

eighty two bhp @ five thousand two hundred fifty rpm

one hundred eighty five km/h (115 mph)

30.Trio mpg (9.Three / 100km)

eighty two kw (110 bhp) @ six thousand rpm

one hundred eighty five km/h (115 mph)

44.1 mpg (6.Four l / 100)

> Plus Four

one hundred fifteen kw (154 bhp) @ six thousand rpm

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