You’ve need the strongest magnet for IronLev’s innovative magnetic levitation system, just an existing rail. That’s right, the Italy-based company successfully completed the world’s first magnetic levitation (maglev) transport test on an existing railway track.
An Amazon delivery van was sliced in half by an Amtrak train back in 2021 and its driver, Alexander Evans, managed to walk away unscathed. The dash camera managed to capture most of the action from the inside and some of what happened up front.
The Skyryse One is touted as the world’s first production fly-by-wire helicopter piloted with a single control stick. Unlike other helicopters, this one recognizes a power failure and automatically enters into an autorotation, which automates the glide, flare, and set-down, with the pilot in full control.
The Acer Predator Extreme E-Scooter PES017 is a product you probably don’t expect from the PC maker, but there’s no better time than now to get into the mobility market. Priced at around $1,400 USD, it boasts a forward-facing stance design and a low center of gravity for greater maneuverability, whether it be through steep hills, narrow trails, or downward slopes.
Chronus Robotics’ Kim-e is a self-balancing personal mobility robot, and the company is now letting interested parties book test rides. Dubbed an ‘invisible wheelchair’, Kim-e can be used in a seated position or standing, thanks to a scissor-lift that raises the seat up at an angle.
It’s no HyperLoop TT, but Brightline West is now America’s first high-speed rail project. Connecting Las Vegas and Southern California, this 218-mile passenger rail service will reach speeds of up to 200 mph with no grade crossings and within the median of the I-15 highway.
Long before bullet trains, there was the self-balancing gyro monorail from the early 1900s. Its inventor, Louis Brennan, filed his first monorail patent in 1903, and the initial prototype was just a 30.0″ by 11.8″ box containing the balancing system.
There’s the Living Vehicle HD24, and then the new BeTriton Trailer, which combines an electric boat as well as a camper into a towable mini home of sorts. At 14.8-feet long, its steel / aluminum frame and carbon fiber / glass body means that it weighs in at 309 pounds without its marine drive batteries.