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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

Green Car Congress

AAA formerly was known as the American Automobile Association. Listening to a book on tape rated mild distraction at 1.7. Hopman (2015a) “ Measuring Cognitive Distraction in the Automobile III: A Comparison of Ten 2015 In-Vehicle Information Systems ”. The ratings. moderate distraction. high distraction. very high distraction.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm htm Advocates of the Th!

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NYU Researchers Pave the Way for Future Shared Mobility

Cars That Think

Chow recognizes that in the future there still will be a strong dependency on automobiles when used in conjunction with conventional fixed rail transit. But nowadays, when you book a trip, that single trip might be operated by three different airlines. Karl Philip Greenberg.

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Dude! What Part of Fires, Flood, Drought & Record Temps Didn’t You Understand?

Creative Greenius

Who’d have ever guessed HE’D get hisself terminated by automobile? on us when the hell and high water (as Joe Romm’s great book of 2006 called it) arrives in your neighborhood and becomes impossible to ignore any longer at your house. . Who could have possibly seen that coming down the road?…

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Dude! What Part of Fires, Flood, Drought & Record Temps Didn’t You Understand?

Creative Greenius

Who’d have ever guessed HE’D get hisself terminated by automobile? ” on us when the hell and high water (as Joe Romm’s great book of 2006 called it) arrives in your neighborhood and becomes impossible to ignore any longer at your house. . Who could have possibly seen that coming down the road?…

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BMW unveils the production i3 in New York, London and Beijing; efficiency, dynamics and a supporting ecosystem of services

Green Car Congress

The production of the i3 marks the first time an automobile manufacturing plant in Germany has installed wind turbines on site to directly power production.) And if the battery has to be recharged at a public charging station, the driver is given a choice of available stations in the neighborhood.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Alternatively, may we suggest the sound of the neighborhood ice cream truck? Until then, we can always program the ESS to make what Lotus refers to as "more futuristic sounds for electric vehicles [that] can be created using sampled sounds and generated waveforms." We always seem to hear that one coming from a mile away.

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