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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

million annually in 2016 to $36.6 You Can Buy Level 2 Today. Today, you can also buy Level 2 vehicles such as the Volvo XC90 with Intellisafe semi-autonomous capabilities such as lane keep, maintaining a safe distance from the car in front, and a 360-degree camera. DOT, NHTSA and the University of Michigan.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

Cars That Think

It also states that neural data will be considered equivalent to a human organ—which would prohibit the buying or selling of such data. Yuste, a professor of biology at Columbia University who studies neural circuitry, has been promoting the idea of neurorights for nearly a decade now. Staff attorney. The entrepreneur.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

Cars That Think

Oxford takes the handoff In 1976, John Goodenough [left] joined the University of Oxford, where he headed development of the first lithium cobalt oxide cathode. The University of Texas at Austin It was the first of many false starts for the rechargeable lithium battery. But he found no takers. billion yen, roughly $126 million today).

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10 Benefits of Apartments With EV Charging (for Owners and Residents)

EV Connect

Landlords don’t need to wait around for legal motivation to upgrade their properties with EV charging access, though. Appeal to More Potential Tenants Despite the gap in EV ownership, homeowners are by no means the only ones looking to buy electric vehicles. There are plenty of advantages available to them and their renters right now.

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Fathers Can Be Gender Equity Advocates

Cars That Think

In my article " A Father's Perspective About Daughters and Engineering ," published in 2016, I shared my frustration about the lack of role models and the cultural messages that had left my two brilliant daughters—and many of their female friends—with little interest in pursuing an engineering career. Is it personal?

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Tesla Power Play: Why running a contested Elon Musk narrative is playing with fire

Teslarati

And in Power Play , few excerpts would be as controversial as a supposed call between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Apple CEO Tim Cook in 2016. According to the book, Tim Cook then had an idea: Perhaps it would be a good idea to buy Tesla. Elon Musk and Tim Cook together in a room during the Trump administration in 2016.

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Broad opposition to EPA, NHTSA proposed freeze of GHG, CAFE regs

Green Car Congress

A large component of the Administration’s rationale for the change hinges on its analysis of the cost of clean technology, the resultant savings to motorists, and an associated reduction in injuries and fatalities due to more motorists presumably buying newer, safer cars because the cost would be less.

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