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RAND study finds introducing autonomous vehicles sooner could save hundreds of thousands of lives

Green Car Congress

—Kalra and Groves (2017). Our work suggests that it is sensible to allow autonomous vehicles on America’s roads when they are judged to be just moderately safer than having a person behind the wheel. —Nidhi Kalra, co-author of the study and director of RAND’s San Francisco office. by Nidhi Kalra, David G.

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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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Electric Car Buyer’s Guide: 7 Steps to Find The Best EV for Your Life

EV Life

On EV Life, you can see personalized recommendations for any car you’re considering. If I use EV Life’s Road Trip calculator to drive from San Francisco to Portland in the Hyundai Kona, I can see that I’ll need to make three stops along the way to recharge and spend about $45 on fuel. Home Charging Options. Level 1 Chargers.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

Cars That Think

No doubt professor Zadeh’s enthusiasm for fuzziness has been reinforced by the prevailing political climate in the United States—one of unprecedented permissiveness,” said R. As a child, Zadeh was surrounded by governesses and tutors, while as a young adult, he had a personal servant. Another berated the theory’s scientific laxity. “No

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

Val Miftakhov got into the EV game in 2010 when he founded eMotorWerks, which created an innovative smart charging solution and was acquired by the Enel Group in 2017. It was always a personal passion, and I was already working on green transportation, so that was a natural intersection. That has its own problems.

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Road Test: 2021 Chrysler Pacifica Plug-in Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

If you are one of those “I will never drive a minivan” type of persons, please keep reading. When Clean Fleet Report first reviewed the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid in 2017, it was the only electrified minivan on the market. But the landscape has changed since 2017 as the 2021 Toyota Sienna minivan is now a hybrid. Ready to ride.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. It’s the only way to save the planet from climate change. While utilities such as E.ON Close down the oil companies.

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