Actually its 15 million pounds which is over 28 million US dollars.
There are some of these on my route to college
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I don't think theyre made by the same company, but the ones on the road from Eckington to Chesterfield in the UK look like ordinary cats eye road studs, but contained within each one is a small rechargable battery, a solar cell, a few LED's, and a microchip pic microcontroller.
As you approach them at night, once they detect a small ammount of light from your headlamps, they light up pretty bright, and continue to shine for a few seconds after you have passed.
They look pretty spooky when you look in the rear view mirror and see them still flickering away (they don't light up constant but instead flash quite rapidly like the LED puch bike lamps).
I believe the ones on the test site on this road were developed by an ex fireman.
Lotus already did this ages ago. They took an Elise and converted it. Geeks might be interested to know the elise has a bonded extruded aluminium chassis, weighs less than a mini, does 0-60mph in 5.6 seconds (with an untuned 1.8litre 4 cylinder engine), and is rated as being one of the best handling cars on the planet !
Pics of mine here
Does such a thing exist ?
It would be great if there was a logo that manufacturers could put on their packaging that indicated that they had provided ALL information required freely to the community to develop open source drivers for its product. The logo would only be available for a manufacturer to use on the product after either a GPL source driver is released by the company, or data needed to produce a driver is released freely (no nondisclosure agreement crap) and a GPL driver is produced by the community.
Flame away !
Model aircraft engines run on a mix of methanol, nitromethane and oil. Methanol is so stable, you can literally throw a burning match into the stuff without it igniting. The only way you get methanol to burn is by either getting it VERY hot, in which case it burns with an invisible flame, or by putting it under pressure, as is the case in a glow engine.
New cars produced in the european union must now include something called OBD III in the engine control unit (On Board Diagnostics).
This is stuff that allows the ecu to monitor extra paramaters of engine performance and emmisions. If for example the car owner opts to tune the engine (something as simple as fitting a free flow air filter and sports exhaust system), then if the engine performance changes out of a pre set band of tolerance, the ecu decides there is a fault, logs it, and illuminates the check engine light on the dashboard.
If you happen to get stopped at a roadside check while this light is illuminated, its no good saying "it just came on" cos the police can plug in a portable interrogator and find out how long its been on.
This system is making it increasingly hard to tune sports cars and still keep road legality.
Cars like the earlier model of mine used to have a vast aray of tuning options, however, since the introduction of OBDIII, there are very few options that keep the car road legal.
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Actually its 15 million pounds which is over 28 million US dollars.
I don't think theyre made by the same company, but the ones on the road from Eckington to Chesterfield in the UK look like ordinary cats eye road studs, but contained within each one is a small rechargable battery, a solar cell, a few LED's, and a microchip pic microcontroller. As you approach them at night, once they detect a small ammount of light from your headlamps, they light up pretty bright, and continue to shine for a few seconds after you have passed. They look pretty spooky when you look in the rear view mirror and see them still flickering away (they don't light up constant but instead flash quite rapidly like the LED puch bike lamps). I believe the ones on the test site on this road were developed by an ex fireman.
check out the D100 forum on Nikonians site for good feedback on the D100.
http://www.nikonians.org/
Lotus already did this ages ago. They took an Elise and converted it. Geeks might be interested to know the elise has a bonded extruded aluminium chassis, weighs less than a mini, does 0-60mph in 5.6 seconds (with an untuned 1.8litre 4 cylinder engine), and is rated as being one of the best handling cars on the planet ! Pics of mine here
Maybe there should be a community run scheme. If nothing else, it would be a good excuse for another logo contest and another tux variant !
Does such a thing exist ? It would be great if there was a logo that manufacturers could put on their packaging that indicated that they had provided ALL information required freely to the community to develop open source drivers for its product. The logo would only be available for a manufacturer to use on the product after either a GPL source driver is released by the company, or data needed to produce a driver is released freely (no nondisclosure agreement crap) and a GPL driver is produced by the community. Flame away !
Model aircraft engines run on a mix of methanol, nitromethane and oil. Methanol is so stable, you can literally throw a burning match into the stuff without it igniting. The only way you get methanol to burn is by either getting it VERY hot, in which case it burns with an invisible flame, or by putting it under pressure, as is the case in a glow engine.
New cars produced in the european union must now include something called OBD III in the engine control unit (On Board Diagnostics).
This is stuff that allows the ecu to monitor extra paramaters of engine performance and emmisions. If for example the car owner opts to tune the engine (something as simple as fitting a free flow air filter and sports exhaust system), then if the engine performance changes out of a pre set band of tolerance, the ecu decides there is a fault, logs it, and illuminates the check engine light on the dashboard.
If you happen to get stopped at a roadside check while this light is illuminated, its no good saying "it just came on" cos the police can plug in a portable interrogator and find out how long its been on.
This system is making it increasingly hard to tune sports cars and still keep road legality.
Cars like the earlier model of mine used to have a vast aray of tuning options, however, since the introduction of OBDIII, there are very few options that keep the car road legal.