Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. This article may contain affililate links.

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Cars That Think

JULY 22, 2023

In the United States, eighth graders scored an average of 271 out of 500 in math on last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress , as highlighted in a New York Times article. Traveling and having a personal connection to Prisms VR customers,” she says, “has been really valuable in designing and updating the modules.”

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

How these new engines perform and how they will be integrated into new vehicle architectures will be the story of personal mobility for this half of the 21 st century. … EERE is specifically interested in information regarding additional areas of research that universities and others are interested in contributing to and collaborating on.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes).

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Terry Byland is the only person to have received this kind of implant in both eyes. I] went from being just a person that was doing the testing to being a spokesman,” he remembers. The company’s current leadership declined to be interviewed for this article but did provide an emailed statement prior to the merger announcement.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 27, 2023

This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. The ongoing discharge of ice into the ocean is a “fundamental process in the ice sheet mass-balance,” according to a 2021 article in Communications Earth & Environment by Humbert and her colleagues. However, Earth’s great ice sheets are always moving and evolving.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2023

So, after DRC ended in 2015 with several of the robots successfully completing the entire final scenario, the obvious question was: When would humanoid robots make the transition from research project to a commercial product? This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. And now, all the robots have to do is deliver.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2017

Driverless cars are poised to decongest personal car traffic, shrink our eco footprint, free up parking spaces and reduce the frequency of collisions by about 90%. Arizona-based startup Local Motors has unveiled Olli ( earlier post ), a 12-passenger minibus that may hit university campuses in Las Vegas and Miami later this year.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2023

An important early paper (2015) by Joshua Gans and Hanna Halaburda on private digital currencies pointed out that “any currency can be viewed as a platform”—and it is the attractiveness of the platform on which its adoption depends. Ah, Mr. Zuckerberg, what year and month did you personally first become aware of Cambridge Analytica?”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2016

Among other potential benefits, these vehicles offer the promise of increased safety on the nation’s roadways and personal mobility to those who are not able or do not wish to drive themselves. The detailed mathematical formulation is complex and will not be discussed in detail in this article. References. [ Stein, J.L.,

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Cars That Think

MARCH 20, 2023

These speculations aside, the idea that a person could simply die in plain view and without friends or family was shocking. My one great advantage has been my access to students and to scientific instruments at the University of Adelaide, where I am a professor of electrical and electronic engineering.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In our last article about Hyperloops , we discussed various facts and figures about Hyperloops. In this article, we are going to dive a bit deep into the topic. Electric skates can transport eight to sixteen persons or a single-passenger vehicle. What exactly is Loop? Hyperloop: How Much Do The Tickets Cost?

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Cars That Think

APRIL 27, 2024

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). The blistering late-afternoon wind ripped across Camp Taji , a sprawling U.S. military base just north of Baghdad.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

A Princeton University study estimates that somewhere between 777,000 to 5.1 This is not to say there is not going to be intense personal and economic pain faced by tens of thousands of workers across multiple industries during the transition to EVs at scale. I am actually quite worried that there are so many opportunities.we

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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Cars That Think

MAY 23, 2023

Enraged that upper-class students were given priority to enroll in a computer-science elective at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , Paras decided to crash the registration website so that no one could enroll. The most poignant moments in the hearing were Paras’s and Dalton’s singling out for praise the very person who caught them.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015. I also wrote an article about cars and what’s good and not good. She spent the previous year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and before that she was the Southwest correspondent for The Economist based in Austin, Tex.

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