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Junkyard Find: 1986 Subaru BRAT GL

The Truth About Cars

US-market Subaru Leone-based car models in 1986 were just called "The Subaru" and so their trim levels became de facto model names here. This made them cars in the eyes of federal law. There's air conditioning, which the 1986 Edmund's Foreign Car Prices book claims was standard equipment in the 1986 BRAT GL (I'm skeptical).

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'Under The Dome' Video: China's 'Silent Spring' Fossil-Fuels Wakeup On Air Pollution?

Green Car Reports

The 1962 book Silent Spring and the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth were invaluable in raising awareness of the dangers to human life posed by environmental contamination. DON''T MISS: Beijing''s Privileged Electric-Car.'

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out. The invention was used by the U.S. military during the war, and the company revisited the idea immediately after.

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China Motor Vehicle Parc Rises to More Than 176.5M Units

Green Car Congress

Sales of small passenger cars and cargo vehicles increased more than 12% and more than 7.5% Nearly 70% of the total drivers (more than 129 million) are motor car drivers. By comparison, the US vehicle parc is about 251 million units (in 2006), according to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. respectively.

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The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI

Cars That Think

In 2006 Dartmouth convened a conference, AI@50 , to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the AI gathering and to discuss AI’s present and future. On that 2006 tour of Dartmouth Hall, he was delighted to find that the dictionary was still there. Where Was the Photo Taken? The word “heuristic” was invoked all through the summer of 1956.

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How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah

Cars That Think

“Almost every influential person in the modern computer-graphics community either passed through the University of Utah or came into contact with it in some way,” Robert Rivlin wrote in his book, The Algorithmic Image: Graphic Visions of the Computer Age. For his work in the industry, Catmull received the 2006 IEEE John von Neumann Medal.

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A Cheapskate in Monterey

Baua Electric

In January, a quiet and thrifty time of year, I trusted parks and preserves, unsung hotels and small businesses to keep things economical, even if sampling the variety of Monterey — ranging from historic cities to redwood forests, tide pools and vineyards — required renting a car ($175).

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