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US Army, Lockheed Martin complete 2nd autonomous convoy demo; more vehicles, higher speeds

Green Car Congress

The AMAS common appliqué kit consists of the bi-wire active safety kit and the autonomy kit. It uses Global Positioning System (GPS), Light Detecting Radar (LIDAR) systems, Automotive Radio Detection and Ranging (RADAR) and commercially available automotive sensors in order to make the system affordable.

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Toyota introduces 2012 Prius Plug-in Hybrid

Green Car Congress

The production plug-in hybrid has a number of key changes from the 125 prototype demo units that were deployed in the field for testing and customer feedback. The demo units defaulted to EV mode. The on-board charging system accommodates single pulse DC 110/220 volt input, and is compliant to SAE J1772 standards.

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

Cars That Think

The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form. Networking: The Story of Ethernet By today’s standards the Alto was not a particularly powerful computer.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

Not a very high figure by auto standards.) Each trolley is kitted out with all the components that are required for making the bike. Affordable EV space is important to the company. We were demo’ed one. We were not told of any rainwater harvesting plan, so I guess most of the water is coming by pipeline.

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