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Driving Dystopia: New York City Pushes Through Congestion Pricing Scheme

The Truth About Cars

However, formal congestion pricing didn’t come up until former mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested taxing vehicles for entering the busiest parts of NYC in 2007. The idea has been revisited every few years, with 2019 delivering the model that only needed to be approved by local transit authorities that have the most to gain.

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Building Better Qubits

Cars That Think

“We had one year to scale organic LEDs to make a 20-inch display in three different colors with pixel sizes of 100 micrometers by 300 micrometers,” Riel said in a 2021 interview for IBM’s Research blog. We had to come up with new ideas for how to improve the quality of [transistors] when we make them smaller,” she says. “We

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A Bright IDEA BY SARAH A. will be unveiling its IDEA, a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. Now, of course, Bright Automotive is ready to unveil the IDEA, with the expectation it will have 50,000 ready for sale in 2013. Bright is planning to sell its IDEA to commercial businesses only. The 100 m.p.g.

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Ford, GM rolling out third-party developer programs for in-vehicle apps

Green Car Congress

Developers who have a great idea for an app but need some help building it can turn to jacAPPS—the recommended mobile app development house for the Ford Developer Program. The portal also will host a blog for developers to keep them informed on the latest news and information.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. By the way, I recommend a long blog post by Stephen Wolfram. I’ve read it.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

People are scared that they’ll get stuck and have no way of charging the batteries, hey I have an idea why not build a wind turbine on the roof that way as you drive the turbine spins and charges the battery. April 18, 2009 3:46 pm Link The Volt is a great idea and it looks magnificent, but they are out of their minds.!!!

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

People actually love the idea of a bicycle that does not need pedalling. Exchange ideas in the boardroom. The British government, for example, announced recently that, in a few years, motorists will be able to get up to £5,000 in incentives to buy an electric car. The point is that everything else needs to be made easy.