Cars That Think

JANUARY 14, 2024

In 2003 he was promoted to director of long-term research at the lab, focusing on technology’s evolution and its potential impact. In 2017 and 2018 he served as head of EIT’s Industrial Doctoral School , headquartered in Palaiseau, France. Roberto had a unique talent for recognizing and valuing the best in each person.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Volkswagen AG has set the goal of becoming the world’s most sustainable carmaker by the year 2018. VW’s “Strategy 2018”, earlier post.) and coasting with engine off. system does not just deactivate the engine when the car is stationary at a red light; it already deactivates the engine at speeds below 7 km/h (4.4

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Still, Pedott liked the idea of the gadget, and after the original investors went bankrupt, he bought the patent and hired engineers to fix the glitches. Often a person must walk across a room to retrieve the remote control unit, and frequently it may be misplaced, which, at best, requires extra time and effort to find.”

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 12, 2021

According to the Insurance Information Institute ( III ), data tracked by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Fatal Accident Reporting System notes aggressive driving played a role in 56 percent of fatal crashes from 2003 and 2007, with excessive speed being the No. A poorly tuned engine burns more fuel.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

Piloting the bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to exceed the speed of sound while in horizontal flight. That continued until 2003, when British Airways and Air France retired their fleets, together amounting to just 12 aircraft. Everett Collection/Alamy. Boom Supersonic.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 21, 2022

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. Today, the people who design prostheses tend to be well-intentioned engineers rather than amputees themselves.

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