by Sarah Paronto | Feb 6, 2019 | The Conversation
John McDermid, University of York Ever since companies began developing self-driving cars, people have asked how designers will address the moral question of who a self-driving car should kill if a fatal crash is unavoidable. Recent research suggests this question may...
by Sarah Paronto | Jan 29, 2019 | The Conversation
Mark New, University of Cape Town; Friederike Otto, University of Oxford, and Piotr Wolski, University of Cape Town Between 2015 and 2017 South Africa’s South Western Cape region experienced three of its lowest rainfall years on record. This led to the progressive...
by Sarah Paronto | Jan 24, 2019 | The Conversation
Sven Teske, University of Technology Sydney The world can limit global warming to 1.5℃ and move to 100% renewable energy while still preserving a role for the gas industry, and without relying on technological fixes such as carbon capture and storage, according to our...
by The Conversation | Dec 20, 2018 | The Conversation
Jas Kalra, University of Bath and Jens Roehrich, University of BathFootball tournaments are unpredictable – that’s one of the best things about them. But one thing no one seems to have expected over the course of the FIFA World Cup this summer is how much carbon...
by The Conversation | Dec 18, 2018 | The Conversation
Four ways our cities can cut transport emissions in a hurry: avoid, shift, share and improve Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently warned that global warming could reach 1.5℃ as early as 2030. The...
by The Conversation | Dec 13, 2018 | The Conversation
An increase in the use of self-driving cars will change parking requirements in the city.Jim Davies, Carleton UniversityEveryone’s trying to get ready for roads that will be filled with more and more self-driving cars. But just as the first cars were imagined to...
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