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Regulatory & Legal Alerts – Dec. 2017

Green Car Congress

7, 2017, a law in New York State makes it possible for individuals convicted of certain criminal offenses to have up to two convictions sealed. Bus Driver Fired for Refusing ‘Mark of the Devil’ in Background Check Can Sue Employer, 10/31/2017. Feds Clarify: Medical Marijuana Isn’t An Excuse In Drug Testing, 11/10/2017.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

That’s me on January 16, 2017, with my brand new Chevy Bolt EV Premier edition in my garage at home. Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us.

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Elon Musk tried to merge Tesla and OpenAI, emails reveal

Baua Electric

Today, OpenAI fought back with a blog post in which the company said it plans to move to “dismiss all of Elon’s claims”. Musk forwarded an email from a person whose name has been redacted. In that email, the person explains the logic for merging OpenAI and Tesla. Musk wrote that the person is “exactly right”.

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Musk: Tesla Roadster Will Use SpaceX Tech and Have Rocket Boosters

The Truth About Cars

Tesla presented the “new” Roadster back in 2017, but the car isn’t expected to officially launch until next year. Musk made the claims in an interview with former CNN personality Don Lemon, saying that a flying Roadster is “not out of the question.”

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Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

Cars That Think

In 2017 and 2018 he served as head of EIT’s Industrial Doctoral School , headquartered in Palaiseau, France. Saracco also published a daily blog on the IEEE Future Directions website, where he mused on the latest technological developments and their impact on humanity. He held this position until his death.

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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

Cars That Think

It holds networking events, provides educational resources, and publishes career-related articles on its blog. The task force collaborates on organizing virtual and in-person events with IEEE groups including Women in Engineering and external organizations such as the International Renewable Energy Agency.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? If I can just expand on that a little.

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