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Video Friday: Robots as Musical Instruments

Cars That Think

We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Its structure is 3D printed and easy to repair, and it's supposedly cheap, although I don't know how cheap. Twitter ] Thanks, Nicolas!

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Exclusive: FAA Investigates If It's Safer to Leave Cellphones On

Cars That Think

A Spectrum investigation earlier this year discovered that GPS interference events are far more prevalent, particularly in the western United States, than had previously been thought. An advantage of using wireless networks to provide that warning is that cellphones are very cheap and now almost ubiquitous.

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Exclusive: FAA Investigates If It's Safer to Leave Cellphones On

Cars That Think

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been quietly funding tests with live cellphones in light aircraft cockpits as a possible counter-measure to GPS spoofing attacks, Spectrum has learned. An advantage of using wireless networks to provide that warning is that cellphones are very cheap and now almost ubiquitous.

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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

Cars That Think

Yesterday, in a livestreamed event, Dan O’Dowd —a software billionaire and vehement critic of Tesla Motors’ allegedly self-driving technologies—debated Ross Gerber, an investment banker who backs the company. And they did, and it did a lot of really bad things; it ran red lights. Have your tests mirrored events in the real world?

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Report finds US automakers remain profitable under future CAFE standards even with fuel price fluctuation

Green Car Congress

When gas is very cheap, people tend to buy bigger, more profitable trucks. In that event, the Detroit Three automakers could lose 300,000 vehicle sales, $1.08 But even if gas prices tank, falling 25% below US Energy Information Administration projections to an unlikely $1.80 With gas at $1.80 billion in profits, and 1.9

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Road Test: 2022 Kia Rio S 5-door Hatchback

Clean Fleet Report

Low-cost but not cheap. Launched in 2018, the Kia Rio had a front end restyling last year (2021) with a new bumper and redesigned grille intakes, a narrow black grille with tasteful chrome accents and, on the S trim level, LED head lights. In addition, we are often invited to manufacturer events highlighting new vehicles or technology.

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LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

Teslarati

From Elon Musk’s Master Plan Part 3, details on the company’s third-generation platform, and discussions on how Tesla could each extreme scale, Investor Day promises to be an event that is one for the books. In past comments, the CEO noted that the “investors” Tesla is referring to in the event are pretty much all life on Earth.

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