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Nissan Dealership Handed Over 400 Charges

The Truth About Cars

.& The investigation apparently took several months and initially centered around the process used by individuals or dealers to rebuild salvage vehicles and the documents used to transfer the titles of those vehicles. The latter likely refers to temp tags that seem to have once been given out by this place like Tic Tacs.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

Cars That Think

You decide, after some months of interacting with the 4evru’s version of your father, that while you are somewhat glad to learn who your father truly was, you’re mourning the loss of the person you thought you knew. Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.”

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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. Unfortunately, these kits are for much older vehicles like the Porsche 914 and the VW Rabbit. Damn the torpedoes. Here we go.

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Success!!! The Ban on EV Conversions in Ontario, Canada is Over!!!

DIY Electric Car

The Ban on EV Conversions is Over!!! Yesterday (June 7, 2010), Electric Mobility Canada sent out an e-mail advising its Ontario members that MTO has lifted the ban, and has implemented an interim solution for the licensing of electric vehicle conversions. "EV conversions are: ? Ontario's Ban on Electric Cars.

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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

Green Car Congress

They are required to bring their inverters in person to a testing facility in United States by 21 October 2015. To be considered for testing, participants in the competition must submit a technical approach document not to exceed 4 pages. Up to 18 finalists will be notified of their selection for final testing at the testing facility.

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Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts

Cars That Think

He was a pioneer in the field of acoustics and provided the technical foundation for speech recognition, teleconferencing, MP3 music files, and the efficient digital transmission of human conversation. "I I was very happy and thankful that I got an award that honors a person I knew very well," Nahamoo says. CHOOSING A DIFFERENT PATH.

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Can Autonomous Weapons Be Compatible With International Humanitarian Law?

Cars That Think

This fuzziness can be challenging for any autonomous system navigating the uncertainty of a human world—such as Alexa reacting to the wrong conversations, or self-driving cars being stymied by. white trucks and orange traffic cones. Is it possible for a machine to learn the difference between a civilian and a combatant dressed as a civilian?