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MARCH 17, 2020
A new open-access study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that motor vehicle crashes involving drivers with blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) below the legal limit of 0.08% accounted for 15% of alcohol-involved crash deaths in the United States. In 2018, Utah became the first state to do so.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 2, 2013
Founded in 2000, Zipcar operates the largest member-based, car sharing network in the world. Car sharing has grown to be a nearly $400-million business in the United States and is expanding rapidly in major cities around the world. Rental car company Avis Budget Group, Inc.
Cars That Think
JULY 30, 2023
And yet this transformative invention took nearly two decades to make it out of the lab, with numerous companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia considering the technology and yet failing to recognize its potential. The University of Texas at Austin It was the first of many false starts for the rechargeable lithium battery.
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JANUARY 7, 2023
“Public policy implementation is hard even if everyone supports a policy,” says University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has studied policy management and administration for decades. In addition, the lack of relevant legal or industry expertise is increasingly worrisome.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 9, 2009
The United Kingdom’s Met (Meteorological) Office announced that the 2000-2009 decade “ has been, by far, the warmest decade on the instrumental record ”, and that 2009 is on track to become the fifth warmest year in the past 160 years, continuing the warming trend that has accelerated since the 1970s. Click to enlarge. Source: WMO.
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NOVEMBER 29, 2009
February, 2008 : Researchers from England, Germany, and the United States proposed replacing the term “tipping point”, which suggests a specific time frame, with “tipping elements” to describe known ecosystems in danger of collapse, yet for which a likely timeframe could not easily be estimated ( earlier post ).
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