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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

The Truth About Cars

Concepts like ultra-low emission zones (ULEZ) and levering connected vehicle technologies to police driving from an environmental and social standpoint are rooted in the key principles of Vision Zero. The report is even entitled “ Car harm: A Global Review of Automobility's Harm to People and the Environment.” & Make no mistake.

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Engineers Are Working on a Solar Microgrid to Outlast Lunar Nights

Cars That Think

The Sandia engineers therefore are looking at two direct-current microgrids, with a tie-line connecting them. All of the testing and tweaking will take place at Sandia’s Secure Scalable Microgrid Testbed , in Albuquerque. “We We have emulation capabilities for all of [the specifications] being planned for the moon base,” Rashkin says.

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INRIX analysis identifies top 10 US cities for highly autonomous vehicles; prioritizing corridors for deployment

Green Car Congress

INRIX, a leading global connected car services and transportation analytics company, has created a scalable and customizable scoring system to prioritize corridors for the deployment of highly autonomous vehicles (HAVs). Albuquerque. —Avery Ash, autonomous vehicle market strategist at INRIX. INRIX HAV City Score. New Orleans.

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Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains

Cars That Think

In my research at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, I study the brains of one of these larger insects, the dragonfly. Initially, I worked in Matlab simply because that was the coding environment I was already using. I precalculated the weights of the connections between all the neurons into the network.

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