Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The Commandant of the Marine Crops, General Conway said it best during the Marine Corps energy summit a few weeks ago when he described the fully burdened cost of a gallon of gasoline delivered to a piece of equipment in Afghanistan. The 2009 Naval Energy Forum was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.

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2020 Afghanistan Energy Mariner 308

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Regardless of what you might think about AI, the reality is that just about every successful deployment has either one of two expedients: It has a person somewhere in the loop, or the cost of failure, should the system blunder, is very low. Our worst failure scenarios had the Roomba missing a patch of floor and failing to pick up a dustball.

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Afghanistan Iraq Personal 2002 145

Cars That Think

AUGUST 21, 2022

soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then, I have donned a variety of prosthetic hands, each of them striving toward perfect fidelity of the human hand—sometimes at a cost of aesthetics, sometimes a cost of functionality, but always designed to mimic and replace what was missing.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 27, 2024

Boomer was a Multi-function Agile Remote-Controlled robot, or MARCbot , manufactured by a Silicon Valley company called Exponent. A Navy unit used a remote-controlled vehicle with a mounted video camera in 2009 to investigate suspicious areas in southern Afghanistan. Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Patrick W. Mullen III/U.S.

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Mariner Personal 2015 IDEA 123