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Lux forecasts global driver assist market to grow to $102B market by 2030

Green Car Congress

Although “ the hype around autonomous vehicles often reaches levels that defy logic ,” Lux tartly notes, the foundational technologies that are being progressively deployed as part of that technology roadmap can be rationally analyzed for opportunity.

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Figure Promises First General Purpose Humanoid Robot

Cars That Think

Over the past year, Figure has hired more than 40 engineers from institutions that include IHMC, Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Waymo, and Google X, most of whom have significant prior experience with humanoid robots or other autonomous systems. Part of the bet we’re making is that we’re not too early, and that the technology to do this exists.”

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Neutral Big Papi @ Apr 20th 2009 10:05AM All - The end of the plug that you see is the end that plugs into the car not the part that would plug into the wall. 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,

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The hybrid models available today use lead-acid ornickel-metal hydride batteries that are are proven, reliable, and fairlycheap, but their limited storage capacity means that the cars’ driving rangeusing electricity alone is short. Electric cars remain dependent on the development of better,affordable batteries.