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NTSB recommends nationwide ban on personal electronic devices while driving; also calls for modifications to the equipment and the completion of a NHTSA rulemaking on collision warning systems

Green Car Congress

Following a Board meeting on a 2010 multi-vehicle highway accident in Gray Summit, Missouri, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) called for the first-ever nationwide ban on driver use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) while operating a motor vehicle. The accident resulted in 11 fatalities. Globally, there are 5.3

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Toyota CSRC launches new research tracks on autonomous & connected vehicle technologies; 11 projects with 8 institutions

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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The model has factors originated from human motor and perceptual behaviors as well as from scenarios and environments. Quantify key occupant responses (kinematics, kinetics and muscle activity) to evasive swerving and emergency braking using both adult and child subjects on a test track.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

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]). In the U.S.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. The list of supporters/partners now includes links to the members’ web sites along with a contact person. Keene, N.H., Santa Barbara, CA.,

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How Roboticists Can Tackle Climate Change

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SS MAPR prepares for its maiden voyage on the Schuylkill River, in Philadelphia. My personal experience confirmed those observations. This was the norm for almost 40 years , before General Motors introduced a robotic arm to assist in the assembly line. I want to build more robots that improve the environment we live in.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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The ICCC would prove to be for packet switching what the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia was for the telephone : the public unveiling of what would eventually lead to a technological discontinuity. One arose at General Motors , which had a strategic goal of using computer-based automation to combat growing competition from abroad.

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

This time it would be with a Tesla Motors Roadster! The Tesla Motors roadster battery pack contains 6,831 Lithium-ion battery cells similar to those in a laptop computer. Michael purchased a new white Tesla Roadster with the intention of making a cross-country trip that would be powered only by homegrown American electrons.