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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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There are two major reasons for this: first, EVs are not going to reach the numbers required by 2050 to hit their needed contribution to net zero goals , and even if they did, a host of other personal, social and economic activities must be modified to reach the total net zero mark. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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The 11 Commandments of Hugging Robots

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If we’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s how important it is not to take physical contact for granted. Unfortunately, physical contact with humans is something that robots find especially difficult and occasionally dangerous, so that we cannot (yet) safely use them as a proxy for nuanced physical contact with another person.

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Legacy Automakers and the Tesla EV Narrative

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” The VW staff person kind of mumbled and explained that yes, “Teslas have more range.” Granted I’m spoiled from the “Taste of Lexus” events my family used to attend and even the old Tesla meet-up events. Perhaps VW chose this approach intentionally, and granted the ID.4 Overall the ID.4

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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US Environmental Protection Agency Grants Testing Waiver. In February, 2009, the US EPA granted Renergie, Inc. Essentially, the lower energy content of hydrous ethanol is counteracted by increasing engine performance due to higher heat of vaporization of ethanol and water in comparison with gasoline and anhydrous blends.

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U Mich researchers teaching self-driving cars to predict pedestrian movement; Bio-LSTM

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University of Michigan researchers are teaching self-driving cars to recognize and predict pedestrian movements with greater precision than current technologies. A paper on the work, supported by a grant from Ford Motor Company, is published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. All other comparison methods were up to 7 meters off.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Networks that link personal computers in offices. and Toronto, Ont., Laser printers.

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7 Revealing Ways AIs Fail

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"It's unpredictable which problems artificial intelligence will be good at, because we don't understand intelligence itself very well," says computer scientist Dan Hendrycks at the University of California, Berkeley. does an AI suspect a person might be a criminal or have cancer? 1) Brittleness. 4) Explainability. Chris Philpot.

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