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Tesla’s Safety Score system could result in unsafe driving: Consumer Reports

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Tesla’s Safety Score system may be designed to encourage drivers to operate their vehicles in a very cautious manner, but according to Consumer Reports, the newly-introduced metric could actually make the roads less safe. The same could happen to Tesla’s Safety Score , according to the CR auto test center director.

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CAR report quantifies automotive’s position as a leading high-tech industry

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Source: Booz & Company “Global Innovation”; Battelle R&D Magazine; Center for Automotive Research 2012. Within Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio alone, there are more than 350 higher education institutions offering programs related to engineering, designing, producing and maintaining automobiles. Click to enlarge.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He left in 1973 to serve as chief scientist of the defense systems group at TRW (now part of Northrop Grumman ), an automotive and aerospace company, in Euclid, Ohio. In 1977 Tredennick joined Motorola in Chicago as a senior design engineer in the integrated circuits division. where he designed the Micro/370.

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Irradiating the Mail: The Anthrax Attacks of 2001

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now part of L3Harris Technologies), to irradiate the lot, along with all letters, large envelopes, newsletters, and magazines destined for congressional and government offices in the Washington, D.C., The machine was designed to irradiate polymers with e-beams and frozen hamburgers with X-rays. ZIP codes 20200 to 20599.

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