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Used Car of the Day: 2004 Porsche Boxster S 500

The Truth About Cars

It's a nearly 20-year-old 2004 Porsche Boxster S 500 that looks to be in pretty decent shape. The A/C works and so does the convertible top. The mileage is 168,000 and this Texas-based car once lived in California. Today's UCOTD isn't a project like yesterday's ride. So it's a pretty rare bird, yet the price tag is just $14,900.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

Green Car Congress

TCF acquired the 23,780-acre tract in 2004 for $18 million ($10 million California Coastal Conservancy, $3.5 Applying a -10% uncertainty factor to this outcome, over 100 years (2004 to 2104) the GRF will have 3,745,208.7 Garcia River Forest. million The Nature Conservancy, $2.5 million Packard loan, $2 million TCF). McKinney Landfill.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Sterling will bring a unique perspective to the Board, and expand the diversity of the Board to Texas. His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion. He has been driving electric for more than 10 years and has been active in the Golden Gate chapter since shortly after the chapter was formed in 2004.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Sterling will bring a unique perspective to the Board, and expand the diversity of the Board to Texas. His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion. He has been driving electric for more than 10 years and has been active in the Golden Gate chapter since shortly after the chapter was formed in 2004.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

Cars That Think

National Academy of Engineering ; United Kingdom Royal Academy of Engineering ; Canadian Academy of Engineering Most meaningful awards: IEEE Medal of Honor : “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership”; UCLA Alumnus of the Year 2004.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

We hear who you are The methods of automated speech recognition, which converts speech into text, can be adapted to perform the more sophisticated task of speaker recognition, which some practitioners refer to as voiceprinting. In 2004, Singh fielded her first query about hoax callers from the Coast Guard.

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