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Toyota, City of Grenoble, Grenoble-Alpes Métropole, Cité lib, EDF launch ultra-compact urban EV car-sharing project; i-ROAD and COMS

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TMC will also provide the One-Mile Mobility Management System, a centralized IT management system that will enable users to check location and availability of car-sharing vehicles and book them through smartphones. The system will also allow the fleet operator to optimise vehicle allocation throughout the charging station network.

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Volkswagen outlines a range of near-term technologies for reducing fuel consumption and emissions; stop-start 2.0, 10-speed DSG

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Heinz Jakob-Neußer, Member of the Board of Management at Volkswagen responsible for the Development Division, referenced the 10-speed DSG at the Vienna Motor Symposium in May 2014. Here, the trunk lid closes as soon as the person with the Passat key moves away from it; the car is also automatically locked. Earlier post.).

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Volkswagen AG timeline on diesel emissions scandal

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To resolve this conflicting objective satisfactorily within the timeframe and budget of the EA189 project, according to the current state of knowledge, a group of persons—whose identity is still being determined—at levels below the Group’s Management Board in the powertrain development division, decided to modify the engine management software.

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Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter

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The essay was the companion piece to his simultaneously released book, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health , which in turn became the foundation for a new religion: the Church of Scientology. In 1961, Hubbard wrote of his recent discovery that the E-meter requires the auditor to have “command value” over the person being audited.

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

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One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. The smartphone assistants’ scores were 0.3

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Ford 2017 trends report: disruption the status quo, “never more difficult” to find objective information

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Oxford Dictionaries recently selected “post-truth” as 2016’s international word of the year, defining it as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less in influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”. This trend has not subsided.

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GfK says Gen Y buyers will be critical for connected car industry; suggests leveraging car-sharing

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Finally, three quarters (75%) of Gen Y drivers in the developed markets surveyed—and 79% in the developing markets—believe that they are likely to be using their own, personal car in five years. Fieldwork was carried out up to November 2014.

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