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Further reduction in licensing of young drivers during the pandemic

Green Car Congress

In 2011 , Brandon Schoettle and I documented the fact that, during the 25-year period from 1983 to 2008, there was a large reduction in the proportion of young persons with a driver’s license, and an increase in the licensing of older persons. For example, while in 2019, 70.9% in 2019 to 84.6%

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Comparing pandemic-related reductions in driving and flying in January

Green Car Congress

The latest population-adjusted data in my monitoring currently include October 2020 information for domestic flying (down 62% from October 2019), riding the train (down 70%), and taking public transit (down 62%), and November 2020 information for driving by all vehicles (down 12% from November 2019). Change from 2019 to 2021.

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Rivian’s board of directors does not include Ford representatives anymore

Teslarati

Based on Rivian SEC documents released to the public on October 1, Ford executive Alexandra Ford English left the EV startup’s board of directors in May 2021, a year after being appointed. The document does acknowledge that certain stockholders will have a conflict of interest. In 2019, the OEM invested $500 million in Rivian.

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Celebrating the Art of Code

Cars That Think

In 2019, CHM released the source code for the earliest version of UNIX. Closely following will be CHM’s public release of the source code for the Apple Lisa computer, a remarkably influential project by Apple that did so much to bring the graphical user interface and “What You See is What You Get” approaches into personal computing.

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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

Cars That Think

Laker worked with the IEEE Board of Directors in the early 1990s to purchase personal computers for the organization’s leaders to make it easier to conduct IEEE business via the Internet. He retired in 2019. Ken Laker , the 1999 IEEE president, died on 2 August at the age of 76. He co-authored four textbooks on microelectronic systems.

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VinFast pushes forward regardless of early setbacks

Baua Electric

Generation acknowledging that VinFast faces stiff demanding situations as an unknown logo in a extremely aggressive marketplace, the automaker additionally has a monitor document of thrashing the chances, Nguyen stated. It additionally introduced a deliberate U.S. checklist at the Nasdaq.

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Tesla sues man for $650k in defamation lawsuit after he won $150k from automaker

Teslarati

Han Chao has posted images of legal documents that indicate Tesla is suing him for 5.05 ” The follow-up suit from Tesla comes just ten days after the conclusion of the previous suit, where Chao was awarded a sizeable payout for purchasing a second-hand Tesla Model S in May 2019. million yuan, or around $650,000 for defamation.

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