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All aboard Tornado: engineering a new steam locomotive
‘Tornado’ has passed its first annual maintenance exams. E&T looks at the revived skills and the modern techniques that have brought the UK’s newest steam locomotive onto the mainline, after 20 years of determination to make the dream a reality.
Tornado steam locomotive embraces microelectronics
Hidden away on the world's newest steam locomotive, Tornado, is a wealth of electronics. E&T discovers what's onboard.
Recent problems with both Toyota and Ford cars that required software fixes, not mechanical ones, have raised important questions over the increasing electronic content of modern vehicles, reports E&T.
The innovative use of non-visual feedback techniques is enabling blind people to drive a car, and could have important lessons for other technologies that must interface with humans, reports E&T.
Fully autonomous vehicles for everyday use in the future are fantasy, but improved driver aids are evolving and here to stay says E&T.
Carriers underway
The UK’s new aircraft carriers are taking shape in an artificial world that looks out over the sea high above Portsmouth, home of the Royal Navy.
You don’t have to be an Arctic explorer to visit the Geographic North Pole these days. E&T visited Murmansk’s Atomflot, where we joined the nuclear icebreaker 50 Years of Victory on a trip to the top of the world…
Wireless sensing networks are being used to improve the safety of critical infrastructure such as bridges and even helicopter blades.
In an ultra-competitive industry suffering from chronic overcapacity, just how has Skoda managed to become the UK’s best-loved car? E&T investigates.
Driverless personal transport is to become a reality at London Heathrow Airport. Dassault Systèmes V5 PLM ensures that this futuristic system is designed, produced and delivered, on time, to budget and with a great user appeal.
Electronic transportation systems are increasingly exposed to the trends of microprocessor consolidation, network connectivity and increased software complexity.
GPS vehicle tracking systems have come a long way from the bulky and extremely expensive original versions and the technology is finding new homes in everything from mobile phones to hand held gaming consoles.
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The age of the volt head 10 March 2010
Does Ferrari's electric car – unwrapped at the Geneva motor show – spell the end of the petrol head?
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