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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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The new research effort, named CSRC Next, will focus on the challenges and opportunities of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies over the next decade. First announced in 2014, CSRC Next ( earlier post ) will direct $35 million through 2021 towards research designed to support a safe transition to the future of mobility.

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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There are now more than 270 IEEE-HKN chapters at universities around the world. There are now 30 chapters outside the United States, including ones recently established at universities in Ecuador, Hungary, and India. In October the Nu Theta chapter debuted at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Ind.

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Comment on Full text: Nio CEO William Li's 1st letter to employees in 2024 by John Hanna

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It may seem counter-intuitive, but it's because they know of , and respect, Musk's own personal genius in both physics and other physical sciences, as well as in business. The following year, 2014 - the year Li founded NIO - Bitauto's share price rose 6X. Or was there more of a causal connection?) In 20i3 Li sold Bitauto.

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Toyota Mobility Foundation and partners to launch Rama4 project to ease traffic congestion in Bangkok

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The Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) and its Thai partners in the Ministry of Transport, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Metropolitan Police Bureau, Chulalongkorn University and Grab Thailand will launch a project to ease traffic congestion on Rama4 Road. It will be known as the “Rama4 Model.”.

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Testing Products for Consumer Reports

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Her 30-person department specifies tests and develops the scoring and ratings, has roughly 30 people who work closely with the operations people in the lab, where the tests are executed. “We We had an Instron universal testing machine , which does tensile and compression testing. One example was a situation known as Bendgate.

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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

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Over the past few years, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), University of California at Davis (UC Davis) and University of Stavanger in Norway have developed a new protocol, called BChain, which makes blockchain even more robust. —Duan et al.

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