Green Car Congress
JULY 28, 2021
In April, the BMW Group, WWF and other companies—including the Volvo Group—undertook, as a precautionary measure, not to use deep-ocean minerals or finance deep-sea mining until comprehensive scientific research into the impact of deep-sea mining can be conducted and the consequences for the environment are clearly assessed.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 15, 2020
More than half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the United States are a result of emissions originating outside of the state in which those deaths occur, MIT researchers report in a paper in the journal Nature. —study leader Steven Barrett, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. Dedoussi, I.C.,
Green Car Congress
MAY 23, 2018
Most existing lane-change algorithms for autonomous cars have one of two drawbacks: Either they rely on detailed statistical models of the driving environment, which are difficult to assemble and too complex to analyze on the fly; or they’re so simple that they can lead to impractically conservative decisions, such as never changing lanes at all.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 28, 2019
To improve the safety of autonomous systems, MIT engineers have developed a system that can sense tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object coming around the corner. ShadowCam used the tags as features of the environment to zero in on specific patches of pixels that may contain shadows.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 22, 2018
A new study by MIT researchers, published this month in Atmospheric Environment , finds that in Europe, 10 major auto manufacturers produced diesel cars, sold between 2000 and 2015, that generate up to 16 times more NO x emissions on the road than in regulatory tests—a level that exceeds European limits but does not violate any EU laws.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 6, 2017
nuTonomy plans to launch its self-driving mobility-on- demand service in Singapore in 2018. Through its testing program in Boston, nuTonomy is building on the knowledge it has gained from the road tests and public trials it has been conducting in Singapore’s one-north business district since last August. Earlier post.). Founded by Drs.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 23, 2024
His first six months living in the United States, acclimating to a new culture and a different academic environment, were overwhelming, Suri says. Suri launched his startup in 2018 to turn some of his lab’s work in AI and neuromorphic hardware into commercial products. After his second year, he transferred to Cornell , in Ithaca, N.Y.
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