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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

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The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power. ARID AWARDS. Lead organization.

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Freescale introduces new vision microprocessor targeting autonomous driving

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The essential requirement for fail-safe reliability cannot be achieved using consumer-grade silicon without significant costs in system power or form factor. Many automotive vision systems available today are based on consumer-oriented silicon solutions originally designed to enhance gaming graphics or run smartphone apps.

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Why Haven't Hoverbikes Taken Off?

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Assessing Hoverbikes’ Risks Safety concerns are just as big a hurdle to making hoverbikes available for sale. That focus on safety doesn’t come without a cost, Barrett-Gonzalez adds. The University of Kansas team’s GoFly entry, called Mamba , had been one of 10 Phase I winners for best design. “For million machine.

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Mercedes-Benz presents autonomous Future Truck 2025 research vehicle; “Highway Pilot”

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The radar sensor is the basis for the Proximity Control Assist and Emergency Braking Assist already available today. Multisensor fusion. The sensors are networked (multisensor fusion), and provide a complete image of the surroundings. billion tons today to nearly 5.5 V2V and V2I.

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The technology behind Ford’s Lightweight Concept Vehicle; prospects for Mach-II with 50% mass reduction difficult

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The Ford Lightweight Concept reduces the weight of a 2013 Fusion to that of a Ford Fiesta, resulting in a nearly 25% weight reduction. Matt Zaluzec, Ford technical leader, Global Materials and Manufacturing Research, was the use of technologies that are targeting the use of mixed materials and that are available today.

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Infineon launches next gen AURIX hexa-core microcontroller for automotive applications; 3x more performance than current

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The TC3xx microcontrollers offer the highest level of integration on the market and real-time performance that is three times higher than that available today. The performance increase and the reuse of existing safety concepts allow automotive system suppliers to reduce development costs by 20% and improve time-to-market.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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They will have to access how much it will cost them to switch. By comparison, NOx emissions in Travis county from motor vehicles totaled approximately 30,000 tons per year in 1996 -- the last year for which complete data was available. (1, Or Cell phone companies agreeing on all cellphone using a mini-usb plug. Is this the Zune HD?