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NHTSA Tells Auto Industry Not to Comply With Massachusetts Data Laws

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has advised automakers not to comply with a Massachusetts vehicle telematics rule designed to ensure customers have control over what happens with their private data. Massachusetts is seeking to enforce a 2020 ballot initiative that was overwhelmingly approved by voters.

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Maine Approves Right-to-Repair Rules, Auto Lobby Annoyed

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The State of Maine has voted "yes" to Question 4, which mimics the right-to-repair legislation that passed in Massachusetts three years earlier. Maine residents voted to approve the measure by roughly 84 percent and will now have laws in place akin to what we’ve seen in Massachusetts and several other states.

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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. & Make no mistake.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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Dronning Louise’s Bro (Queen Louise’s Bridge) connects inner Copenhagen and Nørrebro and is frequented by many cyclists and pedestrians every day. If just one out of five urban residents in Europe permanently changed from driving to cycling, emissions from automobiles would be cut by 8 percent, the study reports.

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Toyota Research Institute displays Gen 2 autonomous test vehicle; machine vision and machine learning

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It will learn individual driver habits and abilities and will benefit from shared intelligence from other cars as data gathering, sharing and connectivity technologies advance. Basically, it is a smart vehicle designed to get smarter over time.

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Audi and 4 US universities tackle urban mobility challenges in 3-year research initiative

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The aim is to take connected car, driver assistance and infrastructure electronics to the next level of providing detailed information so motorists have a better sense of the driving conditions surrounding them. —Mohan Trivedi, director of UCSD’s Laboratory for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles (LISA). Audi Urban Diagnostic.

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LLNL/MIT team creates ultralight, ultrastiff metamaterials; possible applications for automotive and aerospace

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Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed materials with the same weight and density as aerogel (“frozen smoke”) but with 10,000 times more stiffness using additive micro-manufacturing processes. Source: LLNL Click to enlarge.

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