Kelsey D. Atherton
at 07:18 AM Mar 10 2015

We are undeniably living in the future. Today, the evidence is this glowing-red hole burnt straight through a truck's engine by a high-powered laser at a distance of one mile Released this week, the above photo shows just what Lockheed Martin's newest directed energy weapon can do.

Rebecca Boyle
at 00:02 AM May 31 2012
Cars // 

Three cars and a truck successfully drove themselves 200 kilometres down a highway in Spain, using radar and laser tracking to follow each other closely while their human passengers read magazines. Project SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) tested the vehicles alongside actual human motorists, some of whom may have caused safety issues of their own by rubbernecking at the hands-free steering wheels.

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