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TTAC's Best Cars of 2023

The Truth About Cars

Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The Wrangler 4xe gets too expensive in top trims, but Jeep gave us a cheaper configuration for 2024 that makes it easier to afford. It also has 40 miles of electric range and an updated Google-based infotainment system that is more responsive than before. This seems to have translated into strong sales for Blue Oval.

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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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“Inspiring Female Founder” – Jordan Brompton spotlighted in The Successful Founder

My Energi

Rather than a fairytale story dreamt up in a shiny glass city-centre skyscraper, the idea behind myenergi came from a conversation over a bottle of wine. Rather than undertaking years of market research and spending millions of dollars on focus groups, we went on Google. How did the idea come to you for the company?

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Toyota was the most searched auto brand in 2023, but Tesla still dominates EV queries

Baua Electric

What should come as no surprise to most people is that American automaker Tesla dominated Google Trends search data for EVs last year. Studying the most searched auto and EV brands online While EVs continue to dominate the global mobility conversation, there are still plenty of hurdles to overcome before we can truly reach mass adoption.

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This Robot Could Be the Key to Helping People With Disabilities

Cars That Think

It was a PR2 , from the robotics company Willow Garage, and Georgia Tech robotics professor Charlie Kemp was demonstrating how the PR2 was able to locate a person and bring them a bottle of medicine. Edsinger then cofounded a robotics startup that was acquired by Google in 2013. It’s small and lightweight, easily movable by one person.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

Cars That Think

The heads of OpenAI and Google have both openly discussed the need for regulations. We need to make sure that we have a diverse set of people at the table to be able to ensure that when these models are put out there, there’s a degree of transparency that we can help review and be part of that conversation. Wald: Yeah.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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