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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

Teslarati

The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat. Only it didn’t.

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New Elon Musk essay: Tesla CEO’s current thoughts on technology and humanity

Teslarati

The new Elon Musk essay was published in China Cyberspace , the Cyberspace Administration of China’s (CAC) flagship magazine. In a way, the publication of the new Elon Musk essay in the CAC’s flagship magazine is significant. Thank you for the invitation from China Cyberspace magazine. Posted by Elon Musk.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

It doesn’t have any connection to the world. I don’t really enjoy driving, so when I see these pictures from popular magazines in the 1950s of people sitting in bubble-dome cars, facing each other, four people enjoying themselves playing cards on the highway, count me in. Climate change makes farming more difficult, more uncertain.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

Did I mention that we are also as doomed as doomed can be when it comes to a livable climate and none of what I’ve been working on is going to stop that or even slow it down? I had no family connections, inheritance or trust fund. org for whom I founded and organized South Bay 350 Climate Action Group. No family business.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

Connect with Dr. Frank on social media: https://www.facebook.com/andyfrankatedi [link]. 23 ] Bringing up the throttle on cellulosic ethanol - Ethanol Producer Magazine 16 March 2016. [ 29 ] Federal Vehicle Standards | Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. [ Dr. Frank is also CTO and co-founder of Efficient Drivetrains Inc.

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The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys

Cars That Think

Synthesis revolutionized digital design by taking the high-level functional description of a circuit and automatically selecting the logic components (gates) and constructing the connections (netlist) to build the circuit. How do you make the connectivity between those chips as fast as possible? IEEE is a fulcrum for that.”

Design 101
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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. Look, globally, I think best is the global figure, because you mentioned to the climate; if you want really to help the climate, you have to do it on a global scale. Will we have a universal standard for charging?