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This startup leverages dash cam tech to make Indian roads safer – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The journey of SafeCams began with a simple observation by Vanesh Naidoo, its co-founder, during his time in India in 2008. “I got the idea when I had come to India and I was driving my car and I was seeing how badly some of the guys were driving.

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Toyota CEO steps down, opening up possibility of new EV strategy

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Toyoda is known not only for his relation to the founder of the largest automotive company in the world, but also for taking the helm of CEO at Toyota after the market collapse of 2008 and guiding the company to where it is today. The change in the landscape of the auto industry evokes the idea that “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”

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Will Robots Triumph over World Cup Winners by 2050?

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Standard Platform League Austin Villa , UT Austin’s RoboCup team, describing the RoboCup Standard Platform League in 2008. Middle-Size League The Middle-Size League final between Tech United and the Falcons at RoboCup 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand. The RoboCup community is thriving, generating new ideas and new engineers and scientists.

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Peugeot-Citroen: Hybrid-air set for production by 2016

Green Cars News

That new platform makes its debut on the new Citroen Picasso, while the hybrid-air tech itself is being demonstrated attached to a Peugeot 2008 and a Citroen C3. Although the idea [.].

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report. To improve his chances, he worked as an intern for two of them. Winning the competition, he says, changed his life.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. it meant you must have a good idea and you should make the most of it, as quickly as possible.”—Henn This wasn’t a rare job at the time. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

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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. car when tech-savvy types can configure one in their garage by rewiring their existing hybrids. Bright is planning to sell its IDEA to commercial businesses only. See instructions for fixing the problem.

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