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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. GM expects HCCI, when combined with enabling technologies like variable valve actuation and advanced electronic engine controls, to provide a 12-15% improvement in overall fuel economy while being more affordable than hybrid or diesel technologies.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

One of the first times Superpaint was seen by a wide audience was in a public television show, “Supervisions,” produced by station KCET in Los Angeles. “It Xerox PARC had this aura of being a very far-out place. Xerox could not afford to have people think they were flakes.” a spin-off of Lucasfilm. “All

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