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QOTD: Driving Rules

The Truth About Cars

Years ago, teenage me was leafing through an issue of Car and Driver that was already a bit old when I happened upon one of those rare magazine/newspaper columns that changes your life, or at least how you see things. Sadly, a quick Google was unable to turn up a digital copy of the piece. Sound off below.

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DOE announces Apps for Vehicles Challenge Winners

Green Car Congress

These finalists also received guidance on their business plans and early stage prototypes from the industry experts, including Google, Connected World Magazine, Greenstart, OSISoft, CleanWeb and SAE International as well as the Departments of Energy and Transportation and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

Audio Magazine/Internet Archive /Scotch As Smithsonian Magazine notes , the formulation he developed, combining cabinetmaker’s glue with glycerin, proved to be just the right level of easy-to-remove adhesive that it became an out-and-out phenomenon. In the mid-1950s, 3M advertised its Scotch audio reel-to-reel tape.

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

Cars That Think

Your car is driving itself. A car lets you travel faster than walking; a computer lets you process data at an inhuman speed; and a search engine lets you easily find information. To give you an idea, this year's attendees included Google, Microsoft, Hulu, Amazon, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Just look around you.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

Cars That Think

His “As We May Think” article, for the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic magazine, envisioned a desktop computer and a “web” of “associative trails” that no less than the founders of Google cite as the inspiration for today’s information science and the Internet.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

When are we going to have full (level-5) self-driving cars? The example I used at the time was, I think it was a Google program labeling an image of people playing Frisbee in the park. So it’s a lot better than just a 10-word Google search. I think the Level-2 and Level-3 stuff in cars is amazingly good now. More context.

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SiliconRepublic.com: IBM to build smart grid for electric cars - R&D

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Home Business Digital Life New Media Comms CIO R&D Government Careers Events E-Monday Video Audio Dublin: 18.04.2009 02:44 AM SiliconRepublic.com Irelands Technology News Service RSS News Alerts Subscribe Features Google reports record Q1 profits BT reveals 24Mbps service Yahoo!,

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