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Blue Bird, Fulton Co. Schools join Audi, Applied Information on connected vehicle deployment to boost school bus and school zone safety

Green Car Congress

The Fulton County School System, located in the Greater Atlanta Metropolitan Area, has also joined the deployment, lending its expertise in school transportation and infrastructure. Blue Bird Corp., to deploy cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology aimed at helping reduce vehicle hazards that school children face every year.

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Georgia Tech team simulates risks of hacked connected vehicles; stalling 20% of cars could gridlock Manhattan

Green Car Congress

In their simulations of hacking internet-connected cars, the researchers found that randomly stalling 20% of cars during rush hour would mean total traffic freeze. Not all cars on the road would have to be connected—just enough for hackers to stall 20% of all cars on the road. Credit: Yunker lab. Yunker, Jesse L. Yunker, Jesse L.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

Cars That Think

She has served as the IEEE Atlanta Section’s secretary, vice chair, and chair. She is set to speak at the 2023 IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony , to be held on 5 May in Atlanta. Her focus is on keeping passengers, flight crews, and militaries safe, connected, and informed.

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Eco real estate

Electric Auto Association

Christopher Matos-Rogers’ Tesla parked outside the Atlanta Realtors Center. When Christopher Matos-Rogers launched a new career as an Atlanta-area real estate agent a decade ago, he had just spent five years as a marine biologist and he knew what was up with climate change. I was determined to be that realtor here in Atlanta.”

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Going with the talent flow

Electric Auto Association

Now Barnhart, with most of his political connections in Salem still intact, is the perfect clean energy lobbyist. Traveling to Atlanta to complete the training in early 2019, he met up with 2000 like-minded people from all over the world. The end result was usually even better than what the law requires.”

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

The stated goal is to experiment in autonomous on-demand vehicles, hedging the reduction in vehicle sales caused by ride sharing by making GM the preferred vehicle provider for Lyft drivers and integrating connectivity tools like OnStar. Ford purchased Spin, a dockless scooter-sharing company in 2018 and has been working at growing it in U.S.

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