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Cadillac to offer advanced V2V and semi-automated driving technologies in certain 2017 MY vehicles

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Super Cruise, GM’s semi-automated driving technology, will come to market in a new 2017 Cadillac vehicle. Click to enlarge. If we expect our industry to thrive well into the future, we have to provide solutions. It will take 360 degrees of risk detection and enhanced driver assist features driven by incredibly powerful software.

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Regulatory & Legal Alerts – October 2017

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Peopletrail actively tracks the regulatory and legal environment that surrounds employment and criminal background screening. 22 and replace temporary rules that began in 2017. 09/01/2017. Background Check Agency Faces Massive Backlog, 09/06/2017. Hidden Hiring Landmine: Fair Credit Reporting Act Obligations, 09/05/2017.

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Satellite method provides insight into ozone-NOx-VOCs sensitivity for different locations

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Quantitative use of this indicator ratio is subject to three major uncertainties: (1) the split between NO x -limited and NO x -saturated conditions may shift in space and time, (2) the ratio of the vertically integrated column may not represent the near-surface environment, and (3) satellite products contain errors. Murray, L. Lamsal, L.

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TAE Technologies exceeds fusion reactor performance goals by 250% as company closes $250M round; $1.2B to date

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TAE’s fifth-generation reactor, Norman, was unveiled in 2017 and was designed to keep plasma stable at 30 million degrees Celsius. TAE’s safe, non-radioactive approach avoids carbon and particulate emissions, mitigating any impact on the environment or climate change.

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Ricardo demos real-world driving emissions testing at Air Quality show

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Ricardo launched its vehicle emission measurement service in April 2017. This data promises to play an important role in providing cities and local authorities with the insight they need to develop Clean Air Zones and other air pollution mitigation measures.

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Indian ride-sharing company Ola to put 10,000 EVs on the road in 12 months, 1M by 2021

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Ola launched its first electric vehicle project in Nagpur on 26 May 2017. The EV program in Nagpur has provided Ola with insights into effectively managing vehicles, batteries, and operations. Ola is in discussion with several state governments to create an appropriate policy environment to deploy electric three-wheelers.

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DENSO opens R&D lab at U Michigan to advance machine learning and automated drive

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As part of the lab, 12 university students have been selected to participate in research projects, which will begin this month and run throughout 2017. DENSO’s lab is a simulation environment with high-speed computing and high-capacity data storage. Machine learning for AD. Collaborative Automated Drive (CoAD).

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