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San Antonio Hyundai Dealer Removes Landmark

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Here’s a Google Streetview image from that era. The place changed hands, as dealers tend to do, eventually switching to the Hyundai brand around the 2009 bankruptcy of General Motors, perhaps as part of Old GM’s culling of its dealer body in an effort to stave off annihilation and as part of its rebuilding process. Texas, ya’ll.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., as a software engineer.

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Tesla’s FSD Beta program has traveled more autonomous miles than any rival

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In comparison, Waymo, the self-driving company spun out of Google, noted back in 2021 that its fleet had traveled 20 million miles of real-world roads since 2009. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips. That’s a staggering number of miles driven mainly with autonomous driving technology.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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Recent news of accidents are a reminder that these things take time. Advanced technology, prototype vehicles, and business plans are being developed by Google, car sharing services like Car2Go (Daimler), Uber, automakers, network providers, software and technology suppliers. Level 4 Prototype Cars on California Roads Since 2009.

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The Spirit Takes 3 Spots on Google's Front Page

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

When you type in the regular Google search line "Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle" our press release letting schools know that EVJerry and the Spirit of DC are ready to visit appears 3 times. Feb 9, 2009. html - 15k - Cached - Similar pages A Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Wants to Visit Your School Feb 6, 2009. Feb 6, 2009.

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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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“This was before iPhones , Androids , and Google Maps.” Help came in 2009 from William V. They later founded CMT, with Madden serving as its chief scientist. CarTel was one of the first projects in mobile sensing,” Balakrishnan says. “We We showed that it could work at scale. “I

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Tesla Prepping IPO

Revenge of the Electric Car

The company’s chairman Elon Musk said early last year that an IPO was a possibility in either late 2008 or 2009.&#. The company’s chairman Elon Musk said early last year that an IPO was a possibility in either late 2008 or 2009. Department of Energy to help build the new Model S. by Reuters.

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