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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

Cars That Think

Regardless of what you might think about AI, the reality is that just about every successful deployment has either one of two expedients: It has a person somewhere in the loop, or the cost of failure, should the system blunder, is very low. These haven't been the only terrible failures of AI systems when no person was in the loop.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

Cars That Think

At that rate, it would take more than 500 million person-hours to manually search imagery covering all of Ukraine’s suspected contaminated land for EO. Maybe we’ll eventually have separate models for places such as Angola, Iraq, and Laos. In light of those conversations, we developed a user-friendly Web application called SpotlightAI.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Personal mobility redefined. The operations in Kuwait and Iraq use approximately 431 million gallons of fuel per year. Aluminum takes more energy to produce but this is more than offset by improved vehicle performance. The association estimates a net savings of 22 lbs (10 kg) of CO 2 per pound (0.45 kg) of aluminum used.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

Cars That Think

By the war’s end, with “not quite one arm between four persons, and exactly two legs between six,” these self-taught amputee-weaponsmiths decide to repurpose their skills toward a new projectile: a rocket ship. soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

The transport sector—which depends almost entirely on oil products, with 93% of all the fuel used in the sector being oil-based in 2010—remains the main driver of global oil demand as economic growth increases demand for personal mobility and freight. World PLDV oil demand in the New Policies Scenario.

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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

Plug Me In

It took me 17 days to reach the United Arab Emirates, and my route went through fascinating places like the Kurdish region of Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. To see nothing but desert for miles as a Dutch person? Who needs a first-class flight when you have a comfortable train seat and a great playlist? Incredible. The border crossing?

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I liken electric grid and renewable to the economic and political and military fiasco of the Iraq war. I personally wouldn’t count on the “Big Three&# actually implementing any of these new technologies in the near future. Alternative is no longer an alternative. Oil is the alternative. — Bada Bing 9.

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