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MARCH 14, 2021

Drivers are using adaptive cruise control (ACC) as a tool for speeding, possibly undermining the feature’s potential safety benefits, according to a new study by researchers from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) with colleagues from MIT.

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JANUARY 6, 2016

(The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford, each close by TRI’s new offices, to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.) While our company was making fabric looms, automobiles were defining the future.

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JANUARY 7, 2016

The report, which analyzes global patent activity in the field of self-driving automobiles over the last five years, identifies the global leaders in the development of the technologies and also makes predictions about the future of driverless cars. —2016 State of Self-Driving Automotive Innovation. Source: Thomson Reuters.

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JULY 25, 2016

We are convinced it is the right time to bring our management culture in line with the future and thus make our organization more agile and innovative. With fresh input from the whole team, we will make ourselves fit for the future. The company is targeting 150 subject areas worked out and signed-off on by the end of 2016.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

MIT and NASA engineers earlier proposed the D8 Series as one future aircraft design concept that uses boundary layer ingestion. Source: Hall (2016). Hall (2016) “ Boundary Layer Ingestion Propulsion – Benefit, Challenges, and Opportunities ” 5 th UTIAS International Workshop on Aviation and Climate Change.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

However, attempts to quantify that cost decline has produced ambiguous and conflicting results that have hampered attempts to project the technology’s future or devise useful policies and research priorities. Series specifically describing cylindrical cells have annual decrease ratios between 0.048 and 0.22 Ziegler and Trancik.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

CSRC will concentrate on supporting a safe transition to the future of mobility, particularly through emerging automated- and connected-vehicle technologies. The CSRC was formed in January 2011 with three charter members; the first phase of research will conclude in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2017

In a new study, a team from the University of Central Florida and MIT has found that the US Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards is an effective policy solution that does increase the adoption of EVs, whether it is implemented alone or in conjunction with another policy such as government incentives. in 2016 to almost 10% in 2030.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The current CAFE standard calls for fleet fuel economy of approximately 34 mpg in 2016—a target that the CFA termed “ very modest ” The CFA brief says that:“ The analysis showed that it would have been economically and environmentally beneficial to set a much higher standard.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 13, 2022

He is an active member of the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section , which he chaired, and has been involved with several societies, standards groups, and the IEEE Future Directions committee. From 2016 to 2018 she served as vice president of education. In 1989 and 1990, he was a visiting research scientist at MIT.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

MIT and Toyota researchers have designed a new model to help autonomous vehicles determine when it’s safe to merge into traffic at intersections with obstructed views. In 2016, roughly 23% of fatal and 32% of nonfatal US traffic accidents occurred at intersections, according to a 2018 Department of Transportation study.

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MAY 31, 2016

The more important argument for the future of the Li-ion battery field is whether oxygen oxidation can create extra capacity beyond what is predicted from the transition-metal content alone, as has been argued for several Li-excess materials, such as Li 1.2 O 2 , Li 2 Ru 0.5 O 2 and Li 1.3

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AUGUST 10, 2009

First of all, future passenger vehicles have to stay as clean as the best vehicles out there today. Current 50-state baseline Projected future baseline. Customers are now beginning to demand more fuel efficient vehicles, and recent legislation is mandating 40% improvement in.fuel economy between now and 2016. Robert Czarnowski.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2019

The autonomous boats—rectangular hulls equipped with sensors, thrusters, microcontrollers, GPS modules, cameras, and other hardware—are being developed as part of the ongoing “ Roboat ” project between MIT and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute).

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MAY 19, 2016

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Dusseldorf, Germany, and MIT have developed a novel strategy to design nanostructured, bulk high-entropy alloys (HEAs) ( earlier post ) with multiple compositionally equivalent high-entropy phases. Source: MIT. The new approach is described in a paper this week in the journal Nature.

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MARCH 19, 2015

MIT is investigating a fluoride-salt-cooled high temperature test reactor (FHTR). In January 2015, Canada-based Terrestrial Energy (TEI) entered into an initial collaboration with ORNL to advance the Terrestrial’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) to the engineering blueprint stage, expected in late 2016. The ORNL-SINAP CRADA.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

Those objections added to the concerns environmentalists were raising about the ozone layer—a scenario seemingly justified a few years later by MIT researchers, who concluded that a future fleet of 500 supersonic airliners would deplete the ozone layer by 16 percent. Clearly, nobody would accept stone-fracturing sonic booms.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Dig into every industry, and you'll find AI changing the nature of work.” — DANIELA RUS , director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. From “ AI and the Future of Work: The Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence " (November 2019). “We Or see the full report for more articles on the future of AI.

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MARCH 10, 2023

Agilicious is a co-designed hardware and software framework tailored to autonomous, agile quadrotor flight, which has been developed and used since 2016 at the Robotics and Perception Group of the University of Zurich. Agilicious is completely open-source and open hardware and supports both model-based and neural-network-based controllers!

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. So it’s hard for me to see a future where, for example, on our products, we would be only using event cameras.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Aramco’s fuels technology program is focused on reducing the overall environmental impact, cost and complexity of both current and future fuel-engine systems. The new facility, located in Novi, Mich., and owned and operated by US subsidiary Aramco Services Company, further strengthens the company’s global fuels research program.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Joy Buolamwini ‘s AI research was attracting attention years before she received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 2022. As a graduate student, she made waves with a 2016 TED talk about algorithmic bias that has received more than 1.6 million views to date.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

As early as 2016, he declared that “all Tesla vehicles exiting the factory have hardware necessary for Level 5 autonomy”—meaning that cars with cameras and computers alone have what’s needed for fully autonomous driving. We and others at our company, Analog Photonics , which spun out of MIT in 2016, hope to break this impasse.

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MARCH 25, 2016

The research, published in the journal Science , outlines a potential way to make a future generation of water-splitting catalysts from three abundant metals—iron (Fe), cobalt (Co) and tungsten (W)—rather than the rare, costly metals on which many of today’s catalysts rely. It needs to be tested at the device level, really.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

When wireless researchers or telecom companies talk about future sixth-generation (6G) networks, they're talking mostly about their best guesses and wish lists. manufacturers of cellular infrastructure equipment, the United States may not have the superpowers it thinks it does in shaping the future course of wireless communications.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This upper bound on cobalt demand corresponds to 280% of world refinery capacity in 2016. For future demand to be met, attention should be paid to sustained investments in refined supply of cobalt and secondary recovery.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

The development and deployment of current and future generations of EcoBoost and other technologies are not alternatives to electrification of the powertrain, Kapp said. Future generations of EcoBoost. Broadly, these can be described as: EcoBoost–Next Generation (CY 2014-2016). —Dan Kapp. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

A new study by a team from the University of Pennsylvania and MIT suggests it will be easier for cities to reduce CO 2 emissions coming from residential energy use rather than from local transportation. Ultimately each metropolitan area, Hsu suggests, may have to find its own path toward a clean energy future.

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