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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

“I took some surplus parts and motorcycle batteries… it was definitely Rube Goldberg style,” Smith explained. His presentation won him an engineering scholarship to Duke University. It was like the early days of the automobile industry when everything was so scattered,” Smith explained.

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Moore’s Not Enough: ?4 New Laws of Computing

Cars That Think

I teach technology and information systems courses at Northeastern University in Boston. Certainly, the phenomenon of scalability was well known in the automobile industry before it made a significant impact on the computing industry. Henry Ford was a notable example of the the application of this scalability law.

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New Audi A8 debuting Level 3 autonomous AI traffic jam pilot; parking and remote garage pilots; zFAS controller

Green Car Congress

The introduction of the Audi AI traffic jam pilot requires the statutory framework to be clarified in each individual market, along with the country-specific definition of the application and testing of the system. To this end, Audi is working closely with top businesses from the software field, as well as with leading universities.

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NRC report finds Federal analysis to set LD CAFE and GHG standards generally of high quality; some technologies and issues should be re-examined

Green Car Congress

In a new survey of 674 vehicle owners across the country, Brandon Schoettle and Dr. Michael Sivak of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) examined several topics related to fuel economy and advanced vehicle technologies. UMTRI Survey: US drivers want better fuel economy, don’t care how.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). “It very definitely opens a window of opportunity for us,” Lutz said of Toyota’s potential delay. It is definitely perceived as a negative… People see plugging in as a chore.

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