Cars That Think

APRIL 30, 2023

The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. And there was something utterly beguiling about this idea.” There are few people in the industry who have the combination of technical understanding, integrity, openness to new ideas, and kindness.”

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Brian Arthur in his seminal 2009 book on evolution in technology clearly establishes that innovation happens at the right level of granularity where combination and recombination through novel linkages is easy. Now this is problematic in that it ignores context and also misunderstands complexity.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Discussions over science are often freighted with cultural, political, and moral perspectives, making the task of communicating scientific ideas even more challenging. Anyone who has followed the public dialogue on such topics as evolution, stem cell research, or climate change knows how daunting effective science communication can be.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Justine has also displayed her tech chops by getting a degree in computer science from UCLA in 2016, and she has testified before Congress about net neutrality. They will all go down in the history books as having been the ones that ended the 100-year-old history— well, the 100-year-old entertainment business. Totally different.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2015

Though there are some exceptions to these positive results for some of the diesel versions of vehicles from a total-cost-of-ownership perspective, the overall direction of the results supports the idea that diesel vehicles are competitive within the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Powerful lobbyists have tried to undermine the whole idea of petrol taxes, claiming that the effects are too hard on the poor. Sterner is also the editor of the new book Fuel Taxes and the Poor, The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy , authored by 35 researchers.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The conclusions of that study are detailed in a new book— Unlocking Energy Innovation (MIT Press, 2012)—by Richard Lester, the Japan Steel Industry Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, and David Hart, a professor of public policy at George Mason University.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2017

Simply put, the idea is to find a way for agents that are not particularly clever—robots or cars—to work together and achieve complex group behavior. The convoys are managed using control software based on an algorithm developed by EPFL’s Distributed Intelligent Systems and Algorithms Laboratory (DISAL).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2015

Across Germany, UK and USA, 46% of drivers aged up to 34 find the idea of a fully integrated in-car entertainment system “very” or “extremely” appealing. GfK ran a 6-country study looking at which features of connected cars (such as entertainment, safety, behavioral tracking etc.) appeal most to certain age groups.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2016

Based on the idea that multimodality was one of the keys to solving city traffic gridlock and pollution, the project makes available 70 ultra-compact electric vehicles, the Toyota i-ROAD and COMS, on a sharing platform called Ha:mo (harmonious mobility).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The idea for this concept was developed by the Business Innovation division at Daimler AG which identifies business areas with future potential. For example, free car2go smarts are displayed in the relevant map section on the car2gether website and on smartphone applications, and the user can book them immediately if interested.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Just because these systems are in the car doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to use them while you are driving. Far too many people are dying because of distraction on the roadway, and putting another source of distraction at the fingertips of drivers is not a good idea. Listening to a book on tape rated mild distraction at 1.7.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2012

74% of those polled said the new fuel economy standards are a good idea. —Jack Gillis, Director of Public Affairs for CFA and author of The Car Book. Respondents who said cutting oil consumption is very important want to get five more miles per gallon with their next vehicle purchase.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Ford’s idea is to leverage the cloud, in-vehicle sensors, connectivity and advanced data analysis including probability algorithms to provide a much more comprehensive picture of available parking without incurring a cost in infrastructure build-out. Natl Book Network, 2011. Shoup, Donald. The High Cost of Free Parking.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In those books and numerous other works, he wove together magic, adventure, and nature into fantastic tales that were beloved of children and adults alike. The book plays up both the promise and the perils of what was still a very new technology. Library of Congress. The American writer. UtCon Collection/Alamy. Katharine M.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Sustainability Blues (2014): The 2014 trend book addressed the world’s increasing concerns about water. Conventional ideas about time—and the rules that go with it—often are discarded. The Ford survey found that 82% of adults agree that women and men are still not viewed as equals. This trend has not subsided.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In her new book, Unmasking AI : My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines , Buolamwini describes her own awakenings to the clear and present dangers of today’s AI. While the book is an interesting read on a autobiographical level, it also contains useful prompts for AI researchers who are ready to question their assumptions.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This, of course, makes it difficult to describe the prototype’s electronics, especially considering that he kept changing them as his ideas evolved. Throughout his life, Le Caine pursued the idea of a “beautiful sound” —something meaningful, rich, complex, and imaginative.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The idea is to create the most attractive, most comprehensive mobility solution for a better life in the connected world. Now that the approval of the antitrust authorities has been received, the goal is to close this transaction by 31 January 2019.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2024

Meanwhile, over at BBN, Kahn intended to spend a couple of years in industry so he could return to academia with some real-world experience and ideas for future research. “I Bob Kahn Soon after he arrived at DARPA, Congress pulled the plug on funding for the proposed automated-manufacturing effort. 1962 and Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The winning ideas proffer solutions to the problems posed by the need to travel in crowded urban areas. Users book journeys at short notice and a buxi vehicle provides door-to-door transport at an agreed time. Esoterix is a Bristol-based start-up dedicated to developing and deploying novel solutions to urban transport problems.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"The whole idea is that this is technology you can adapt to any existing niche," he said. Will Congress finally approve consumer-oriented legislation that has stalled for years? Leaning on Fiat Some of these electric vehicles will be based on Fiat products. More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 27, 2024

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). From this perspective, what makes robot funerals unnerving is the idea of an emotional slippery slope.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

In their book, Aerohydronautical Power Engineering , Max Platzer and Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn propose that water turbines aboard sailing ships could harvest powerful ocean winds and use this energy to break water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The government’s job then is to properly incentivize the best ideas. Authors Max F.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler , Dodge , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , SAE World Congress Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day by Sebastian Blanco on Apr 22nd 2009 at 7:48PM Two months ago we went for a ride in the Dodge Circuit EV.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Liz read books and was interested in current events and liked to talk about them – all traits we shared. So on Monday night when I went by myself to see the film screen in Santa Monica I had no idea what I was in for. I endure for lack of any better ideas. Me and Liz on my birthday in 1982. It has been too long.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

When most of America will be reluctant to buy a GM car because the company might go bankrupt how the hell did those in charge think bailing them out was a good idea? I like the idea that I can take to the Hwy I can do better than 330 miles on a 10 gallon tank. This is true, irrespective of the merits of the Volt.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2022

To help us sort out how the new policies are likely to unfold, we turned to Margo Oge, former Director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality and author of the book Driving the Future. Congress has, I think, 90 days or 160 days to act. Usually, Congress acts because there is a lot of private-sector interest.

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