SciShow
The Coming Robot Swarms
We might soon be following the logic of animal swarms to help us solve problems like traffic and constructing buildings in dangerous places, like Mars!
TED Talks
Robin Chase: The idea behind Zipcar (and what comes next)
Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the world’s biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating road-pricing schemes that will shake up our driving habits and a mesh network vast as...
TED Talks
Anna Mracek Dietrich: A plane you can drive
A flying car -- it's an iconic image of the future. But after 100 years of flight and automotive engineering, no one has really cracked the problem. Pilot Anna Mracek Dietrich and her team flipped the question, asking: Why not build a...
TED Talks
TED: We should aim for perfection -- and stop fearing failure | Jon Bowers
Sometimes trying your best isn't enough; when the situation demands it, you need to be perfect. For Jon Bowers, who runs a training facility for professional delivery drivers, the stakes are high -- 100 people in the uS die every day in...
TED Talks
Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the "mesh"
Lisa Gansky, author of "The Mesh," talks about a future of business that's about sharing all kinds of stuff, either via smart and tech-enabled rental or, more boldly, peer-to-peer. Examples across industries -- from music to cars -- show...
SciShow
How Your Memory Can Be Tricked
Do you remember what you did a week before today? And are you sure you actually did that instead of dreaming it up? Our memory can be tricked easily. But how? Hank explains how your memories can be tricked.
SciShow
The Future of Driving | Compilation
Self driving cars and self-repairing roads: the future of driving is bright, or at least less aggravating.
TED Talks
Edward Burtynsky: Photographing the landscape of oil
In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine -- and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame.
SciShow
Why Is It So Hard to Fix Traffic?
Fixing traffic seems easy—just add more roads, right? Turns out that this is a problem studied by physicists and psychologists alike, with no easy answers.
TED Talks
Tyler Cowen: Be suspicious of simple stories
Like all of us, economist Tyler Cowen loves a good story. But in this intriguing talk, he asks us to step away from thinking of our lives -- and our messy, complicated irrational world -- in terms of a simple narrative.
TED Talks
Robin Chase: Excuse me, may I rent your car?
A decade ago, Robin Chase founded Zipcar in the US, now the largest car-sharing company in the world. Now she's exploring the next level of car-sharing: Buzzcar, a French startup that lets people rent their own cars to others. The...
Crash Course
The Roaring 20's Crash Course US History
In which John Green teaches you about the United States in the 1920s. They were known as the roaring 20s, but not because there were lions running around everywhere. In the 1920s, America's economy was booming, and all kinds of social...
MinuteEarth
Will Gas Stations Survive?
Although it’s not likely to happen soon, someday gas stations may be replaced by (or turn into) another type of fueling station, because no fuel or mode of transportation is forever
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars - Patrick Lin
Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, they can't completely avoid accidents altogether. How should the car be programmed if it...
TED Talks
Arunabha Ghosh: 5 steps for clean air in India
India's big cities have some of the worst air quality in the world. How can we fix this public health crisis? In an actionable talk, social entrepreneur Arunabha Ghosh lays out a five-step plan to put India on the path to cleaner, safer...
TED Talks
TED: An engineer's vision for tiny forests, everywhere | Shubhendu Sharma
A forest planted by humans, then left to nature's own devices, typically takes at least 100 years to mature. But what if we could make the process happen ten times faster? In this short talk, eco-entrepreneur (and TED Fellow) Shubhendu...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary - Lisa Janae Bacon
In 1972, Thomas Sankara was swept into the revolution seeking to wrest control of Madagascar from France’s lingering colonial rule. The protests inspired the West African native to read works by socialist leaders and seek wisdom from...
SciShow
Why Are Self-Driving Cars Taking So Long
Self-driving cars have been “coming soon” for years. What’s so hard about making a machine that drives itself!?
PBS
Russian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
A meteorite crashed into earth!!!! This wasn't the first time and it won't be the last, but it is the first time such an event was captured by SO MANY CAMERAS! But besides providing the world with some hilarious, frightening, and amazing...
MinuteEarth
The Science of Roadkill
Surprisingly, flattened fauna can teach us a lot about wildlife biology.
TED Talks
TED: A friendly, autonomous robot that delivers your food | Ali Kashani
Meet the friendly robot that could deliver your next burrito. Ali Kashani introduces us to Postmates' autonomous delivery robot and explains how it could help reduce carbon emissions and free up valuable real estate in cities everywhere....
SciShow
3 Weird, Real Ways We Could Fix Icy Roads
Salting roads in the winter is pretty commonplace in areas of the world that see freezing temperatures, but it isn't the only solution.
TED Talks
TED: What moral decisions should driverless cars make? | Iyad Rahwan
Should your driverless car kill you if it means saving five pedestrians? In this primer on the social dilemmas of driverless cars, Iyad Rahwan explores how the technology will challenge our morality and explains his work collecting data...
TED Talks
TED: The future race car -- 150mph, and no driver | Chris Gerdes
Autonomous cars are coming -- and they're going to drive better than you. Chris Gerdes reveals how he and his team are developing robotic race cars that can drive at 150 mph while avoiding every possible accident. And yet, in studying...