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Google teaching autonomous vehicles to share road safely with cyclists

Green Car Congress

In the latest monthly report on its autonomous driving project, Google engineers outlined some of the steps they are taking to teach their self-driving cars to share the road safely with cyclists. Google currently has 24 Lexus RX450h SUVs and 34 prototype vehicles on the road with autonomous driving capability. Click to enlarge.

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Tesla Gigafactory Texas will sit on ‘Tesla Road’ following unanimous vote on name change

Teslarati

Tesla Gigafactory Texas will not move geographical locations, but it will be on a new road. A spokesperson for the Texas Department of Transportation clarified that the reasoning for the early placement of the sign was “a misunderstanding,” in a statement to KVUE. ” Harold Green Road has existed since 1976.

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

Green Car Congress

Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have. Driving more than 14,000 miles, the Google cars collected 3 million measurements of nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide and black carbon pollutants in Oakland. —Apte et al. The study’s approach was designed to be cost-effective and easily replicated.

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There’s a New Problem With Electric Cars That No One Saw Coming

The Truth About Cars

We also chat with Matthew Guy about the car ramps he uses at home and what happened in the NASCAR race at Martinsville (yes, I know, there was a Texas race in between. As always, you can find our podcasts at these links: Spotify , Apple , Google , Amazon , and iHeart Radio. It pertains to our conversation and is worth your time.

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Tesla Gigafactory Texas catalyzes $500M, 2,500 home development project

Teslarati

A $500 million, 2,500 home development project will come to the City of Austin located near Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas as the electric automotive plant is catalyzing employment in the area and bringing on a need for more housing. ” Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas is expected to amend an area weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Updates on Coming Tesla Rental Car Program

CleanTechnica EVs

Following my report from earlier today (technically, yesterday on the US East Coast), I Googled around a bit and found another Tesla job posting similar to the Texas one but in San Jose, California. What is actually going on with a coming Tesla rental car program? The extra useful element of this job posting, however, […]

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Tesla Most-Googled Investment Option, Magnet-Free Motor, Tesla Cybertruck Reservations, Texas GOP Blackout Scandal — CleanTechnica Top 20

CleanTechnica EVs

The top 20 CleanTechnica articles of the last week included a lot of Tesla news (naturally), but Ford came in strong too. Tesla stories accounted for 8 of the top 20 stories. The hot new Ford F-150 Lightning took another 3 stories of the top 20 (note: one of those is a story Elon Musk […].

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