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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

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Concepts like ultra-low emission zones (ULEZ) and levering connected vehicle technologies to police driving from an environmental and social standpoint are rooted in the key principles of Vision Zero. Many of the promoted solutions exist to inconvenience motorists in a bid to discourage them from driving entirely.

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Editorial: Why Are People Worried About Automotive 'Kill Switch' Mandates?

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Usually referenced as a “kill switch,” the device is supposed to be required on every new automobile manufactured after 2025. Modern automobiles are already loaded up with microphones and are capable of transmitting control inputs, positional data, and plenty more back to the manufacturer. The latter seems the more likely option.

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

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Certainly, the phenomenon of scalability was well known in the automobile industry before it made a significant impact on the computing industry. At the core of Henry Ford’s achievement was the design of an automobile that was made for mass production. Henry Ford was a notable example of the the application of this scalability law.

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Elon Musk unveils Hyperloop preliminary design study

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Linear accelerator concept for capsule acceleration and deceleration between 300 and 760 mph (480 and 1,220 km/h). Hyperloop concept sketch. The capsules may be passenger-only, or, for more flexibility (and at a higher system cost), passenger and automobile combinations. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Driving the VW e-Golf; strategy, assembly in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig battery plant

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As the number two OEM in the automobile business in the world, it only makes sense for us if we see a certain volume behind it. Volkswagen implemented an acoustic concept for the e-Golf that is specifically tailored to the characteristics of an electric vehicle, greatly enhancing its already quiet attributes.

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Self-Driving Cars Work Better With Smart Roads

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The concept of. Properly expanded, this approach can prevent most accidents and traffic jams, problems that have plagued road transport since the introduction of the automobile. Each vehicle bears a computing system, a suite of sensors, an engine control unit (ECU), and to connect these components, a controller area network (CAN) bus.

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Proposed US Transportation Reauthorization Plan Links Greenhouse Gas Reductions to Transportation Planning

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Creating a National Transportation Strategic Plan, based on long-range highway, transit, and rail plans developed by States and metropolitan regions, to develop intermodal connectivity of the nation’s transportation system and identify projects of national significance. Reforming the US. Highway account balance. Source: DOT. Click to enlarge.