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2023 Volvo V60 Cross Country Review – Quiet Luxury

The Truth About Cars

It means quiet in the literal sense – the cabin of this car isolates noise nicely, as befits a luxury car – but also in the more abstract sense. This is a car that seems to fly under the radar, even as it’s one of the last wagons left on the market. Speaking of price points, this is not a cheap car.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. When are we going to have full (level-5) self-driving cars? So it’s a lot better than just a 10-word Google search. More context.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

Cars That Think

But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2 In 2016 Google decided to sell Nest, so I left the company. Months after I left, Google changed its mind. That’s right, f ers.

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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

The Truth About Cars

What we don’t know is why the car accelerated to a high rate of speed and went airborne before becoming a fireball. More to our speed is this Slate piece which came to my attention via a tweet from Car and Driver senior editor Andrew Krok. According to Krok, Kois never even reached out Car and Driver to ask about the Bentley.

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Necrobotics: Dead Spiders Reincarnated as Robot Grippers

Cars That Think

Astonishingly mobile, amazingly efficient, super robust, and in some cases, literally dirt cheap. I’ll let you Google whip scorpion on your own because they kind of freak me out, but here’s a picture of a patu digua, with a body measuring about a quarter of a millimeter: Squee! You know what’s even easier than that, though?

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How To Survive the Winter Driving an EV

Clean Fleet Report

Tips for Electric Cars To Navigate the Cold Stuff. But unlike traditional gas-powered cars, electric vehicle batteries do not last as long in extremely cold weather. Arming yourself with an emergency car kit can help give you peace of mind if you happen to get stranded in the elements. How To Survive the Winter Driving an EV.

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Lucid Motors chooses Mobileye as partner for autonomous vehicle technology

Green Car Congress

Lucid will launch its first car, the Lucid Air ( earlier post ), with a complete sensor set for autonomous driving from day one, including camera, radar and lidar sensors. Projection of the map data; on the right side the lanes are mapped onto Google Earth. The car is driving based on the map alone.

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