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BMW showcasing urban mobility connectivity applications at ITS World Congress

Green Car Congress

The concept of intermodal routing is enhanced by the DriveNow package available in Munich, Düsseldorf, Berlin and San Francisco. This premium car sharing with BMW and MINI automobiles is independent of car-hire stations. Traffic light assistant. The lights transmit information about their switching sequences.

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FCA US reaches settlements on diesel emissions at estimated cost of $800M

Green Car Congress

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ wholly owned subsidiary FCA US LLC has agreed with with the U.S. The affected vehicles will also qualify for an extended warranty in connection with the software update. The consent decree and settlement agreements contain no finding or admission with regard to any alleged violations.

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New Comprehensive Lifecycle Energy and Emissions Inventory Includes Non-Operational Components; Large Aircraft Can Perform Better than Light Rail

Green Car Congress

Ranges in passenger occupancy can easily change the relative performance of modes, with large aircraft performing better than light rail in some of the areas investigated. Samples of the findings include: Off-peak urban diesel buses has the largest energy consumption and GHG emissions per PKT, followed by the three light-duty vehicles.

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Volkswagen’s MEB for EVs: long electric range, open-platform, open-space, pricing for the volume market; “tablet on wheels”

Green Car Congress

Brands within the Volkswagen Group have been rolling out modular component matrices, or assembly toolkits, for their light-duty vehicles over the past few years. It shows that we have four core innovations: smart sustainability, automated driving, intuitive interaction and personalized connectivity. This is our core story of the MEB.

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Driving Dystopia: Companies Are Getting Serious About Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Connectivity

The Truth About Cars

Before connected vehicles had become ubiquitous, numerous companies suggested that they would be networked into roadway infrastructure to improve safety and decrease traffic congestion. While the concept of vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) connectivity has been around since at least the 1950s, any tangible progress has been relatively recent.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

It doesn’t have any connection to the world. I live in the city of San Francisco, and for almost a year now, I’ve been able to take rides after 10:30 PM and before 5:00 AM, if it’s not a foggy day—I’ve been able to take rides in a Cruise vehicle with no driver. It is correlation between language. He’s also turned it into a book.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Lucid Air Touring AWD

Clean Fleet Report

The rear has an LED light strip running fender-to-fender and a demure, stylized Air Touring badge on the truck lid. Overhead, an optional Glass Canopy ($4,500) that is seamlessly connected to the windshield creates a sunroom effect from the hood to the rear window. This is a sleeper luxury sedan that isn’t crying out, “Hey, look at me!”