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The Vehicle EO Smart Connecting Car developed in Bremen promises the connection of the advantages of OPNV and individual traffic

At the DFKI Robotics Innovation Center in Bremen, the self-controlling electric automobile EO is currently being developed within the framework of the project "New Mobilitat in the Landscape", which can conclude with others to a roadtrain and thus not only save energy, but also attention. Telepolis talked to Timo Birnschein, which develops the IT for the system.

Mr. Birnschein – What distinguishes the EO from other self-drive cars as they are developed by Google, Audi or BMW?
Timo Birnschein: Oh, much actually. Practical cars with autopilotes are based on normal gasoline or diesel-driven models with automatic transmission. Then the car is controlled via a mechanical or (if present) via response of the CAN bus of the vehicle. So it can be that there "Robotic legs" really get gas and brake. Our car is fully electric, has four drives in the bars and is complete Drive by Wire mobile. So there is no mechanical connection to the vehicle anymore – apart from the brake itself. That’s for emergency trap. Normally, the drives are braked by returning the braking energy. In addition, we can direct both the front and the back – actually you could designate that as the main feature. As a result, we are able to turn on the spot, or even sideways to drive. And should the parking lots be too small, we fold the car just 50 cm together overall our car is not a technical really similar so far. Even normal, commercial e-cars have a central motor, a gearbox and differential – and also axes. All this falls away with us and thus saves a good 500 kg weight. So our car weighs only about 700 kg and is accordingly mobile and efficient.

Eo. Copyright Image: DFKI GmbH How far is the automatic driving automatic already developed? If the car comes along with rasters, tremors and spontaneous trackswers?
Timo Birnschein: No, the automatic is currently in development. We first work in the simulation environment and thus bring the algorithms to a level that can be tested on the real machine. That means we EO Smart Connecting Car to use this to test the autopilot developed in the simulation in real environment. So the car has no sensors on board, these things are then implemented in the successor to work at the time. The trap you describe are, of course, pay attention. Our current destination is first the development of an autopilot for environments such as parking, as docking is in the foreground. We liked to say the car can say that he should automatically dock to the next charging panels. Or picks me in the middle of the rain from the entrance of my buros, or also autonomously docked to the vehicle moving in front of me to realize a roadtrain. Then within a roadtrain, the front vehicle ames the complete control over all the following vehicles. That’s what we call assisted driving in the association. How does docking work exactly?
Timo Birnschein: Currently we develop an electromechanical interface. This interface can transmit both power and energy and data. The interface is then equipped with visual markers and cameras and allows the autonomous docking process. If two cars with this interface meet on the strain – that works because we can calculate the route planning via the internet – the driver of the rear vehicle on his touchscreen in the car tap on the front vehicle and then put the hands in the slob. The car then ames the control of itself and ride – comparable to applications and developments in space – automatically approaching the front man and docks. But of course only, if this is also charged. However, we ame that drivers of such cars have decided on energy saving and therefore very much like to drive in Column as Roadtrain. The same interface is located on all vehicles and expansion modules at the front and rear and is also genderless. We are working to standardize this interface to make them access to other car manufacturers in this way. Is the roadtrain couple to the energy saving so far only theory, or does that work with several prototypes?
Timo Birnschein: Currently there is only one prototype. Here we have developed a new mobility concept and use the vehicle as a demonstration object for that. Above all, it is about two things: save a lot of energy and make life easier for people. Because only the leading vehicle generates air resistance and all other vehicles roles only. That’s how she is doing, but have no wind resistance.

In Roadtrain, the EO can also recharge empty batteries. Copyright Image: Dfki GmbH. How fast ride the EO?
Timo Birnschein: The car is currently 55 km / h at about 100 km range, this is indeed suitable for a "new mobilitat in the rivals", as the project is called, in the frame he is developed?
Timo Birnschein: Yes, because we can expand the car functionally by docking, for example, expansion modules. These modules can be, for example, Range Extender, with which the range is drastically expanding. Therein, batteries, diesel electrical generators or fuel cells can be installed. In addition, we develop passenger and pickup modules that can be transported more people and payloads. Each module brings its own drive axle and a power supply. The drive axle is just as folding, as the identical on the car. So we can easily get one from a car and an expansion module "gross car" do. Because the control software regulates the steering in a way that you drive the car, for example, like a minibus, but not like a car with trail! This is a very important aspect. What do you mean – how much will the EO or his successor once cost?
Timo Birnschein: We liked to realize a small series in three to five years. With the full serial maturity we expect about 10 years. The car should be affordable for the normal burger. So the price ended somewhere between 15 and 25.000 EURO. Could there be problems with the permitted, because the car contains so much new? Or are the behavior rather open-minded?
Timo Birnschein: No, the buyers of the small series are coarse companies such as airport or trade fair trade. We first liked the reliability of autopilots and roadtrain formation. However, at the CeBIT we had a visit through an insurance company that were very open-minded and interested in the classification of the vehicle. Our conversations with the TUV have also been very positive. You can apply as an EO test driver?
Timo Birnschein: The list is long.

The police and their weapons systems

Skandalchen in Baden-Wurttemberg: The new pistols of Heckler Koch does not push as exactly as you should. Interesting are mainly the accompanying items.

Oberndorf am Neckar is a small town with a coarse tradition. For several centuries you have already been manufacturing sliding tool, and since 1949 the company Heckler works there Cook, which is almost paradigmatic for the German weapon forge and the German arms trade in all world – even if the company is in the meantime to the British rating company BAE Systems.

Tailler Koch has been building weapons not only for police and militar in Germany, also elsewhere in the world is trusted on the Wurttemberg brand manufacturer, such as the film known at the time "Budging from Oberndorf" Documented knew.

From the 500.000 people who die in small arms die, many a little qualitative, because with products from Heckler Koch was created on her. Even the RAF did not trust at least in her logo on the socialist competition model, the Kalashnikov AK 47, but on a product from Heckler Koch (MP 5)

A whopping market penetration, one should mean. Currently there is stunk. From the 20.000 new pistols of the model P 2000 V5, which were delivered to the Baden-Wurttemberg police, does not constantly shift a considerable proportion so well. This comes to the public, and a deputy head of the police operations of the police in Mannheim of the police may be particularly explained that pistols that walk the police do not have to enjoy the tunnel, putting the sports plans to their creaking – it does not matter if A shot once a few inches under the finish lying.

To do this, the man is dramatically imaged with pistol in the attack, grimly received his destination. Maybe there will be similar newspaper reports in Niedersachsen and in North Rhine-Westphalia, because Heckler has to Lower Saxony Koch again 15.Delivered 000 pistols of the same type, according to North Rhine-Westphalia an unnamed number. So far is the all economic routine between the arms suppliers and the police in this country – interesting are more of two other things. First, the P 2000 is not alone on the crap of Heckler Koch grown, so much you also emanate on the homepage the years of development in the company’s own engineers.

Because the union of the police informed that the University of Applied Sciences of the police in Villingen-Schwenningen has made decisive preparatory work, in the development of police weapons a novelty. The research work of the University of Applied Sciences are even recorded on a CD-ROM, which can be acquired at the price of 10 euros at the paying agent of the university. So it has to do with an interesting form of business demand: the police makes their own development work, overlook the results of the economy and then buys the finished product in tens of thousands of copies of the relevant company. In fact, an impressive example of the free market economy, which actually wants to rely on state-proof competition of the best.

As interesting as the genesis history of the pistol is the language in which they are now negotiating. Accordingly, the deputy head of operational training in Mannheim is paid by one "Weapon system", this despite lightweigh defect all requirements involve "Combat weapons" is the speech, from "Tactical smuck" – Quite as if the member of an army speak here. At the almost symbiotically close cooperation with Heckler Cook is only logically. If you look at the Jargon, with which the deep military-colored product portfolio of the company is advertised (S. for example "Main struggle" of the G36 rifle or the grenade machine gun), then you know where the language of the Mannheim policeman comes from, which is mutually reprinted in the press.

His pistol is just a weapon system used after tactical aspects. From time to time, not against criminals, but against opposition or otherwise unpleasant, as the well-documented trap of drawn service weapons in demonstrations prove, the death of Halim Derer, N’deye Mareame Sarr and other occasions in which the rule of law lost the Fang. A more sensitive document for the trend observable for years to (re) militarization of the police as this spark of "Weapon system" You have to look for anyway.

If it was good, the Baden-Wurttemberg weapon climb was able to raise questions. For example, every conceivable human society needs a police? If so, you have to be armed? If yes how? At least one could take the peculiar interbulum of a war-weapon manufacturer with the German police under the magnifying glass. But it will not run well. It will run well with a federal republican, and the only questions that will come to the table in this context, if at all, are those of product liability and qualitaire. So that the police weapons systems in the future are exactly the goal again. And not a few centimeters wrong.

Bahrain: "It’s too far!" – Even royal spatter falls on that the protest movement is demonized. Trade unions complain about unithery striking

Many look to Libya, no one looks at this island. In the attention shadow of the Allied coarse use against the Libyan Violence Square in Bahrain some PR complexity to throw all reform munches from the population into a make-up pot named shiite conspiracy and drag to the resolution. With the reference to the regional Grobfind Iran, one could, as supported by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, excluded the emergency status and proceed according to all the rules of oriental despot against any opposition.

What started the progestinal action against the amount of protest at Pearl Roundabaout Square, the cleaning of the Bahrainische Office of all the disturbing voices and signs, is currently continuing. After a coarse arrest wave of Schiite oppositionist, it is now against unions and the large opposition newspaper. In the past week, a well-known, very moderate blogger Mahmood Al-Yusuf had been arrested, which was involved in the entire time of protests for mediation and cohesion of the Bahrainisches Society ("Weome All Bahrainis").

The General Second-General of the International Union Confederation (German IGB, English Union ITUC) drawn attention yesterday on reprisals and punishments, with which workers and trade unionists were confronted in Bahrain, which participated in strikes or demonstrations, to which the Bahrainische Trade Union General Federation of Bahrain Trade Union (GFBTU) – had called.

Unchecked and other disciplinary recordings against strikers

As "political purification", as "worrying, unacceptable and illegal", Sharan Burrov refers to the along 300 workers who were employed by Alba (Aluminum Bahrain BSC) and Khalifa Sea Port. ALBA praises the use of the work colleagues, which compensated the travers by the strike with overtime, and threatens the employees who have violated the labor law of the Konigreich of Bahrain and Albas regulations with disciplinary maws:

Nevertheless, Employees Who Have Infringed The Kingdom of Bahrain’s Labor Law AS Well as Alba’s HR Policies by Not Reporting, OR Committing Other Offices Against The Company Will Have To Face Disciplinary Actions Accordingly.

Striking workers were replaced by migrants, claiming the International Trade Union Confederation, which represents this "exploitation practice" in a separate report as scandalosis practice.

The University of Bahrain also served according to the ITUG as the scene of "serious antigenwerkliche repression". According to his information, the Vice-Prassident of the Bahrainian Teacher Union and four members of trade union management, as well as the following day, the General Secretar arrested. As well as students who were deleted in front of Stpipendien.

Censorship against critical newspaper

Like the British Guardian Journalist Brian Whitaker in his blog – see Bahrain Newspaper Under Attack – the opposition newspaper Al-Wasat Hindered last weekend at the appearance, official reasons: "unprofessional and moral practices", which were included in lugs, defamation and plagiarism, as well as "old news" (about the protests?To). Only after replacement of senior editors the newspaper was allowed to appear again. The senior editor was a Schiit, who is always critical to the government. According to Whitaker, all other local blatters – he pays Akhbar Al-Khalij, Al-Bilad, Al-Watan and the Gulf Daily News – narrow connections with the government.

The hard, partially brutal approach to the Bahrainian government against the protests, as also documented by Amnesty International in a report, followed a wave of arrests and discrimination against Shiites, which the government publishes the driving force of the riots, which makes it possible to no longer continue to deal with the political reformanship.

Observations of a royalist

Even authors like the blogger Sohail Algosaibi watch this with concern. Sohail Algosaibi stood the protests from the beginning with some skepticism. Because he was different when this was reported abroad, even in the peaceful demometer scene, aggressive elements, which soon already radical demands presented and demanded the abdication of Konig Hamids. According to Algosaibis guesses, these groups were not resurrected in front of arms violence.

These observations enamed Algosaibi Mitte Marz, when the protest wave had become the dangerous crisis for the Konigshaus, in a blog post, where he gave himself as a royalist and the aggressive elements of the in his eyes uneven protest movement clearly exhibited, as well as the insistence of the Sunnis in Bahrain. He talked about his segregation of the different currents within the protests, in which many Sunnis were recognized, also in the state transmitter Bahrain TV, whom he praised for his change to more openness and so far unknown pronounced. A few days later he relativized this praise because he also noticed that the wind had turned:

What Irger me and worried me now is that it goes far too far. From what I can see, the coarse part of the shipments is to demonstrate the opposition and protests. This goes too far! Once you have someone in a fight K.O. beat (Algosaibi is martial trainer, Anm. D.Red.), there is no additional reason to kick him when he lies on the ground.

"Hab campaigns"

So the voice from a government-friendly warehouse. Other situations of the opposition, which fails very much more drastic and have been reaffirming opposition and tribulation for weeks, such as Barain Online or the daughter of a human rightsman who has given the Nom de Guerre Angry Arabiya, once.

As infam the propaganda proceeds to descend critical voices, with the case of the above Bahrain-known bloggers Mahmood Al Yusuf studying. Human rights and fair ratios, the cohesion of the Bahrainisches Society (Mahmood was Admin of Just Bahraini) oriented bloggers, who, during the protests, was mainly sealed, had been arrested in a night action last week and not insignificantly due to the prere of his support for little later has been released. If you follow the links in your blog entry for liberation, you can make an idea of how defamation works.

….. WE Conclude That Under The Banner of Unite BH This Group (Picture Attached) Attempted to Trick The International Media and Residents and Citizens of the Country to Join Them in Their Hate Campaign Under the Disguise of Pro-Democracy, While in Fact It What Purely Anti goverment…

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