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Mercedes-AMG Brings Entry-Trim SL 43 to America

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Merc claims this technology is a “direct derivative” of developments used by the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team, a fact which can be used whilst bragging about your new car to buddies at the beach house in Malibu.& Gearheads insist this configuration was actually the one to get, despite the V8 option grabbing all the magazine headlines.

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SwRI to showcase Ranger precision localization technology for automated driving; non-GPS system with 2cm precision

Green Car Congress

The latest Ranger kit can be used for automated driving, valet parking in garages and structures, freight distribution, and docking of buses and large trucks. We have made this technology smaller, faster, and more robust for real-world use at a relatively low cost. Kristopher Kozak, leader of Ranger’s development.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

EV conversions in Canada CommuterCars: Builders of the "Tango" tandem EV Currie Technologies: Homeof US ProDrive Electric Scooters and Electric Bicycles. Micro :Electronics, Kits, Surplus, Online Catalog Cand H Sales Co.: Home PowerMagazine : While not an EV magazine, they do have a regular EV section. Nice folks.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. The 100 m.p.g. Right Now can be seen here. Both Ford Motor Co.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

PARC, now in its fifteenth year, originated or nurtured technologies that led to these developments, among others: The Macintosh computer, with its mouse and overlapping windows. The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. Laser printers.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

startled the world of high technology by presenting the first ever 1-million-transistor microprocessor, which was also the company’s first such chip to use a reduced instruction set. One attempt went almost 18 months into development, but current silicon technology did not allow enough transistors on one chip to gain the desired performance.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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then based in Mountain View, he realized that silicon technology had advanced to the point that, with careful engineering, a complete central processor could fit on a chip. Working on memory technology, Hoff soon received a patent for a cell for use in MOS random-access integrated circuit memory. While a research manager at Intel Corp.,

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