Cars That Think
JULY 21, 2021
On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.
Cars That Think
MAY 18, 2024
Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. Simply put, standardization slowly fixed this. PCI’s lessons gradually shaped other standards, like USB, and ultimately made computers less frustrating. So how did we get it?
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 13, 2011
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. —Chairman Deborah A.P. The accident resulted in 11 fatalities.
Cars That Think
APRIL 2, 2024
If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. 3M branched out beyond standard floppy disks with a variety of magnetic-tape storage media. inch floppy at Shugart Associates, developed in the 1980s.
The Truth About Cars
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
The midrange Malibu includes a bevy of standard equipment, wrapped in a low-key body nobody notices. Minus points go to the old-school LCD screen in the center of the gauges, which could easily be from 2002. Importantly, wireless Android Auto and Apple Carplay are included as standard. miles per gallon.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
His project led to the development of a device worn on a person's finger that measures blood pressure during physical exercise. Gowen was elevated in 2002 to eminent member of IEEE-HKN. He earned a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1959 and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering in 1962. He was granted his first U.S.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
The KPMG research finds that the external environmental costs of 11 key industry sectors jumped 50% from US$566 to US$846 billion in 8 years (2002 to 2010), averaging a doubling of these costs every 14 years. Total environmental cost 2010 vs growth in environmental cost since 2002 vs environmental intensity improvement. Source: KPMG.
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