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Volvo Cars brings Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert to the US

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Volvo Cars is partnering with Waycare Technologies to enable data from Volvo’s Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert to be shared anonymously with transportation municipalities and the popular Waze navigation app. Waycare has plans to expand to other areas in the future. From 2020, all new Volvo cars are speed-limited at 112 mph.

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Camber Ridge opening $60M tire testing facility with 0.5-mile oval indoor track

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Camber Ridge, LLC is partnering with Teton Capital, LLC to launch a new $60-million state-of-the-art facility for vehicle tire characterization, which will begin operations in 2016. The new facility is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the midst of the region’s growing automotive research and manufacturing cluster.

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DOE to invest $16M in computational design of new materials for alt and renewable energy, electronics and other fields

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The teams are expected to develop sophisticated and user-friendly open-source software that captures the essential physics of relevant systems and can be used by the broader research community and by industry to accelerate the design of new functional materials. The new research projects will begin in Fiscal Year 2016.

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse Has Major Implications for Automotive Sector

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port that sees the largest number of cars and light trucks annually — at roughly 800,000 passenger vehicles per year. From Reuters : Baltimore port's private and public terminals handled 847,158 autos and light trucks in 2023, the most of any U.S. Industrial or economic terrorism on behalf of another nation seems more likely.

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Let Robots Do Your Lab Work

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So I think top universities, government labs, industry folks, lots of equipment. One, we just did a workshop at the University of— sorry, North Carolina State University about that very problem, right? And so just to digress a little bit, if you think about farmers before the Industrial Revolution, what were they doing?

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