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Autonomous electric car technology: Why should a self-driving vehicle be all-electric?

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Are you aware of the advancements in the automotive industry? An autonomous vehicle acts as a personal assistant who can go to the shop and bring some vegetables for you. Waymo – Autonomous driving project of Google Google started autonomous car projects in 2009. It is also known as Self driving electric vehicle.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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She has developed remote sensing technologies that, among other uses, map crops more accurately, increase crop yields, and improve management practices while reducing the time it takes to select promising new hybrids. The award is sponsored by Google. space program; she initially aimed for a career in the aerospace industry.

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X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

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X PRIZE is an educational nonprofit organization whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs, inspiring the formation of new industries, jobs and the revitalization of markets that are currently stalled. Aircraft Efficiency : electric/hybrid aircraft, alternative aviation fuels. billion dollars in support of private spaceflight.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]). Hertz has 8,500 locations in 150 countries.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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Volkswagen showcases inductive charging w/ “power lift”, autonomous and semi-autonomous capabilities & gesture control at CES

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Over the mid-term, it will be even easier and more convenient to charge EVs and plug-in hybrids with the market launch of inductive charging systems; Volkswagen is demonstrating this with an e-Golf at CES. A person logs onto the system by spreading the fingers of a hand, preventing unintentional activation of a function with a hand movement.

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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AT, in its most basic form, is anything that helps a person achieve enhanced performance, improved function, or accelerated access to information. The degree, designed in collaboration with industry professionals, is a hybrid of sorts, focusing as much on user needs as on the development of new technologies.

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