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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

Teslarati

The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat.

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Tesla patent outlines system to actively monitor improper seatbelt use

Teslarati

One such example was demonstrated by Consumer Reports recently when the magazine decided to show exactly how drivers could trick Tesla’s Autopilot driver-monitoring systems. . Fortunately, it appears that Tesla is working on a way to prevent such tricks from happening. Credit: US Patent Office.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

Cars That Think

Metra has been an enthusiastic volunteer for IEEE for over 30 years, serving in multiple roles, including 2019 president of the IEEE Computer Society. He is also a PES distinguished lecturer and editor in chief of the Spanish version of the PES Power & Energy Magazine.

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Review: “Getting Ready for Model 3”

Green Car Congress

Discusses and explains what is known about the car’s tech; Considers the decisions that will be required as each owner configures their Model 3; Offers a preview of Model 3’s autonomous driving features; Explains how to develop a personal charging infrastructure for owners of the car; Delineates the costs of ownership; and.

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How to Have a Greener Christmas?

Driivz

Or make your own recyclable gift wrap by using newspapers, brown paper with twine, or magazine pages. As the TV commercials like to remind us, ‘this the season for giving a new car to that special person in your life’. million in 2021 , nearly doubling the sales from 2020 and tripling that of 2019.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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And in 2019, he was named a Person of Distinguished Service to Science and Technology, one of the nation’s highest honors. Favorite periodical: TIME magazine. To read more, see “ Transfer of ‘Engineer’s Mind’: Kim Choong-Ki and the Semiconductor Industry in South Korea ,” Engineering Studies 11:2 (2019), 83-108.