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QOTD: Do You Have an Accident-Prone Road in Your Neighborhood?

The Truth About Cars

If I spent enough time Googling, I could find plenty of examples of tight corners that drivers miss on a frequent basis -- sometimes out of stupidity, sometimes out of unfamiliarity with the road, sometimes out of intoxication, and almost always because of excess speed.

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Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It

Creative Greenius

I went to Detroit last month and found myself in neighborhoods that looked like they had been attacked by enemy forces, had lost their battle and had now surrendered and in most part been abandoned. No this is a job for the company I’ve long been a stockholder of – Google. photo by Galliani (c). Communications.

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Lux Research: self-driving cars will lead to a $87B opportunity in 2030, but fall short of full Level 4 autonomy; software leads

Green Car Congress

The Google car is an example of limited self-driving automation. Demonstrations of autonomous cars by Google and Mercedes-Benz are technically impressive, but still depend on high-resolution special maps, are limited to certain routes and weather conditions, and need a trained professional driver behind the wheel.

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

Green Car Congress

One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. 3.3), as did Apple Siri (3.4,

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How To Choose the Right EV Charging Equipment for Your Dealership

Blink Charging

Public charging for dealerships Installing EV charging stations for general public use will be a service to your neighborhood and can act as another source of revenue for your dealership. Your business will be added to the Blink Network and popular map services like Google, helping your customers find EV charging stations nearby.

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Belgium or Brooklyn? 5 Bold New Places to Eat in Brussels.

Baua Electric

Anju Many of the most interesting new restaurants in Brussels aren’t found in Îlot Sacré , the high-rent heart of the city, but in outlying neighborhoods like St.-Gilles Here are five Brussels restaurants worth a visit. Gilles , an evolving but still more affordable area favored by young creatives.

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Researchers use Google Street View cars for high-resolution air pollution mapping

Green Car Congress

The team equipped two Google Street View vehicles with the fast-response Aclima Ei measurement and data acquisition platform and repeatedly sampled every street in a 30-km 2 area of Oakland, CA, over the course of a year, developing the largest urban air quality data set of its type. —Apte et al. Kirchstetter, Melissa M. 7b00891.

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