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Distance driven in the United States: Did we reach the peak in 2004?

Green Car Congress

This article is the latest publication in a series examining recent changes in various aspects of motorization in the United States. The focus here is on distance driven per person and per household, as opposed to the absolute distance driven (which depends, in part, on the continuously increasing size of the U.S. by Michael Sivak.

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Choosing not to drive: A transient or a permanent phenomenon?

Green Car Congress

In a 2011 article , Brandon Schoettle and I showed that the proportion of young Americans aged 16 to 39 years with a driver’s license decreased substantially from 1983 to 2008. (In In contrast, the proportion of older persons with a driver’s license increased during the same period.) This article reports on two follow-up analyses.

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Number of vehicles in the United States: Did we reach the peak in 2006?

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In a recent article , I examined changes in distance driven in the United States during the period from 1984 through 2017. Distance driven per person reached a maximum in 2004. While this rate has been on a rebound since 2013, the 2017 rate is still down from 2004 by 5.2%. by 2017 (to 0.769 vehicles). population).

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EV fleet management startup Zypp eyes USD 40 million from Tribe, others at USD 300-350 million value – ET Auto

Baua Electric

There are several global investors, including some existing backers, that are in discussions,” one of the persons cited above said. “The company is looking to raise funds for its Series C round…this money is primarily expected towards expanding the business into newer cities and building new technology.

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Why Are We Still Doing What Simon Says?

Cars That Think

In 1979, for example, Milton Bradley released Super Simon , a two-player game that tested which person could repeat the sequence faster. One shaped like Darth Vader’s head was introduced in 2017; it features the first four notes of Vader’s leitmotif. A year later, the company released a miniature version called Pocket Simon.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee?

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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This article features IEEE Board of Directors members Cecilia Metra, Eduardo Palacio, and Enrique Tejera. Tejera is a member of IEEE-HKN , serving on its board of governors (2017-19). This article was corrected from an earlier version.

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