Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In comparison, animals developed multi-segment legs, mechanical coupling between joints, and multi-segmented feet. Paper ] A millipede/centipede, despite its legs being small in comparison to the body, is able to stably traverse complex 3D terrain (i.e., Today, we have a fully driverless taxi services in San Francisco and Phoenix.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Some of these have been put to use in taxi fleets in such cities as San Francisco and New York, with some taxi vehicles attaining more than 250,000 miles individually and taxi fleets in California alone attaining a total of nearly 100 million miles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This approach permits a precise distinction between fuel burned to provide a given level of service and fuel burned as a result of inefficiencies, such as the use of older technology, circuitous routing, or taxiing with two engines instead of one. Shorter trips—e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Appendix B: Car of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Vehicles. It is alarming to see comparisons of the Chevrolet Volt PHEV with battery electric cars when the comparison focuses only on the electric range and ignores the other important differences. More information on e-mile comparisons is given by Reference Nº 2.

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