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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

Cars That Think

O’Dowd: In March, in North Carolina, a self-driving Tesla blew past a school bus with its red lights flashing and hit a child in the road, just like we showed in our Super Bowl commercial. It’s a city that grew up after the automobile came along. I know of no examples of someone shutting down a grid with malware.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

North Carolina State. Jet Fuel From Camelina Sativa : A Systems Approach North Carolina State University will engineer the oilseed crop. for climate control in automobiles. automobile market. Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: Development of a Low. power grid. North Carolina State.

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