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Study finds hands-free just as distracting as handheld mobile phone use behind the wheel

Green Car Congress

Shimul (Md Mazharul) Haque, from QUT’s School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment and Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety – Queensland (. ), presented the findings at a Driving Distraction Seminar held at QUT. The study is published in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 360-380 doi: 10.1016/j.trc.2016.10.006.

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Progress! IRA signed into law

Electric Auto Association

Clean Vehicle Credit : This $7,500 credit was renamed, reshaped, and split in two parts: $3,750 if the vehicle’s battery is manufactured or assembled in North America. We’ll be particY ipating in informational seminars on state plans for funds distribution.” “We or a country with which the U.S.

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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

Cars That Think

This article was first published as “M. Craford met him at a seminar, where Holonyak was ex­plaining his work in LEDs. A Bell researcher who gave a seminar at Monsanto mentioned the use of nitrogen doping to make indirect semiconductors act more like direct ones. Appearances are deceiving. George Craford.”

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China bets on open-source chips as US export controls mount – ET Auto

Baua Electric

widens restrictions on China’s access to advanced semiconductors and chip-making equipment, the open-source nature of RISC-V has made it part of Beijing’s plan to curb its dependence on Western technology, although the emerging architecture accounts for a fraction of the chip market. But as the U.S.

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