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Coltura: Supreme Court precedent means states can require all new vehicles sold be electric

Green Car Congress

Recent US Supreme Court precedent has opened the door for states to enact laws requiring all new cars sold in the state to be electric as of a certain date, according to a paper by the nonprofit Coltura published in the University of Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law. Its vision is a gasoline-free US by 2040 or sooner.

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Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming

Cars That Think

This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. I think this is the coolest technology of the last 20 years,” says Todd Austin , a hardware security expert at the University of Michigan, whose startup Agita Labs does a different form of secure computing in the Amazon and Microsoft clouds. “It

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

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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Europe Mandates Automatic Emergency Braking

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The EU’s regulations, conceived in 2019 , seem to go the furthest, requiring as they do a number of other advanced driver assistance systems—notably emergency lane-keeping assist, drowsiness and distraction recognition, and intelligent speed assistance. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as “Brakes That Slam Themselves.”.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Stanley Whittingham [from left] shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Oxford takes the handoff In 1976, John Goodenough [left] joined the University of Oxford, where he headed development of the first lithium cobalt oxide cathode. Goodenough at the University of Oxford was the next scientist to pick up the baton.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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But it took more than a year and scores of meetings for IBM's contract and legal teams to authorize the terms. This article is based on excerpts from IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (MIT Press, 2019). An abridged version of this article appears in the August 2021 print issue as “A Tool for Modern Times.".

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7 Revealing Ways AIs Fail

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There are lots of possible reasons why organizations are reluctant to get into the nitty-gritty of what exactly happened in an AI incident or controversy, not the least being potential legal exposure, but if looked at through the lens of trustworthiness, it's in their best interest to do so.". 1) Brittleness.

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