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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

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I understand that someone who isn’t a car person – and I have no idea of what level of automotive knowledge Kois possesses – might make an unfortunate correlation between the number of gears in a transmission and the amount of power a car’s engine possesses. There’s a lot more that’s wrong with this piece, but let’s start there.

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Ford 2017 trends report: disruption the status quo, “never more difficult” to find objective information

Green Car Congress

Sheryl Connelly, Ford global trend and futuring manager, says there is no escaping the fact that disruption is now the status quo. An abundance of choice matched with uncertainty in the marketplace is bringing about a reluctance to commit—giving rise to a “sampling society” that prioritizes trying over buying.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. You Can Buy Level 2 Today. My test parallel park of Ford Escape was a breeze when the SUV parked itself. Soon, we will able to buy a Level 2 or Level 3 autonomous vehicles.

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Q&A: Why the Metaverse Needs to Be Open

Cars That Think

This so-called metaverse has captured the tech zeitgeist and is attracting billions in investments. The name comes from author Neal Stephenson's dystopian sci-fi classic Snow Crash , which envisaged a gigantic 3D playground where millions of people escaped the drudgery of the real world. IEEE Spectrum : What is the metaverse?

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

Cars That Think

It does this by projecting letters onto the person's forehead. Norman considers the Character Marker an early foreshadowing of augmented-reality devices, and it definitely seems like a low-tech version of Google Glass or the new Facebook-backed Ray-Ban Stories. The Master Key's subtext: Tech has consequences.

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Q&A: Why the Metaverse Needs to Be Open

Cars That Think

This so-called metaverse has captured the tech zeitgeist and is attracting billions in investments. The name comes from author Neal Stephenson's dystopian sci-fi classic Snow Crash , which envisaged a gigantic 3D playground where millions of people escaped the drudgery of the real world. IEEE Spectrum : What is the metaverse?

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. But can this no-nonsense tech veteran come up with a plan to save Yahoo? The answer may lie in Silicon Valley.

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