Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Spafford ’s more than three decades as professor of computer sciences at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind., Indeed, the field didn’t really exist when he graduated from the State University of New York at Brockport with a bachelor’s degree in math and computer science in 1979. During Eugene H.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

While the need for auto insurance is universal, the specific coverage required can vary significantly from one driver to another. Your instance plan should be as unique as your car Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All Indeed, automobiles encompass a broad spectrum, ranging from compact cars to hefty trucks and luxurious vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2019

A further challenge may be the size of the average person on the planet and the increasing number of people with excess body weight. Therefore, the researchers conclude, the total impact of obesity may be an extra emissions of ~700 megatons per year of CO 2 eq—about 1.6% of worldwide GHG emissions.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

There are two major reasons for this: first, EVs are not going to reach the numbers required by 2050 to hit their needed contribution to net zero goals , and even if they did, a host of other personal, social and economic activities must be modified to reach the total net zero mark. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The research will take place at ten UK universities and the Transport Research Laboratory. The design approach will aim to personalize the driver interfaces to the widest range of drivers possible so that the system adapts to the driver, rather than the driver having to adapt to the system.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Potentially unsafe mental distractions for drivers can persist for as long as 27 seconds after dialing, changing music or sending a text using voice commands, according to a pair of new studies for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety by University of Utah researchers. AAA formerly was known as the American Automobile Association.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Burns has been a major advocate within the industry for the reinvention of the automobile and the diversification of transportation energy. At GM, he has personally championed the electrification of the vehicle, connected vehicle technology, fuel cells, and a series of innovative advanced technology concept vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

Through the OpenXC platform, we are paving the way for new opportunities that will help us prepare for the future of transportation where the automobile, mobile networks and the Internet cloud come together in ways never before imagined. —Venkatesh Prasad, senior technical leader of Open Innovation for Ford Research and Innovation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

In their study, they assess the benefits and drawbacks of the joint production in a sugar cane-based biorefinery—using technology that is currently available and cost-competitive—of ethanol and electricity for fueling privately-owned automobiles. times the value usually reported in the literature for biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Ford is now shipping beta test kits of its open-source connectivity research platform, OpenXC ( earlier post ), to developers and universities around the world. At NASSCOM, Ford is demonstrating an app created by HCL that would allow a driver to provide selected personal contacts with an automatic location update during that driver’s travels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2018

Before that, Chris was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, and helped win the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. In 2005, a Volkswagen Electronics Research Lab-Stanford University team claimed victory at the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge—widely considered the dawn of the automated vehicle era. Chris Urmson, Co-founder & CEO.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2012

NVIDIA processors are used in a wide variety of embedded applications today, including automobiles made by Audi, BMW, Tesla and Lamborghini, aircraft including the F-22 Raptor, and US Army tanks. University of Utah and the University of Virginia. Today’s cars aren’t personal computers—they’re far more complicated.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

Fleura Bardhi (Northeastern University) and Giana M. University) interviewed users of the Zipcar car sharing service and found that. Our exclusive relationship with RelayRides provides an exciting new choice: the first automobiles to run on collaborative consumption. Eckhardt (Suffolk.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 12, 2021

Hacettepe University , in Ankara. IEEE Presidents' Scholarship , which is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. He hopes to talk with Turkey's science minister and the TOGG [Turkish Automobile Joint Venture Group], a new company formed by the government. University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2016

(The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford, each close by TRI’s new offices, to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.) While our company was making fabric looms, automobiles were defining the future.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2012

The product line comprises four standardized module sizes, with more than 300,000 electrical configurations and battery cell load options that can be quickly delivered for easy integration into a range of electric vehicles from two-wheeled vehicles and automobiles to buses and trucks.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2010

announced its second Electric Vehicle Testing Program, this one with Saitama Prefecture for its next-generation personal mobility products, including electric vehicles (EVs); plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs); electric scooters; and electric carts. The Saitama program will focus on motorcycles, automobiles and power products.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Unbeknownst to many, manufacturing new automobiles exacts a toll on our ecosystem—increased energy consumption and escalating greenhouse gas emissions further exacerbate the situation. Individual Perks Scrap car recycling extends personal gains beyond the horizon.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 30, 2022

He had earned a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1946 and a master’s in electrical engineering in 1949, both from Columbia University. The Henry Ford Shortly after the cocktail party, the two men founded Unimation, the name a portmanteau of “universal” and “automation,” which Devol had coined when filing his patent.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 30, 2023

The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. his best friend, Steve Crocker , wrangled permission for the two to occasionally use a Bendix G-15 computer at the University of California, Los Angeles. and University College London. universities.

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Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

All four men felt that LEVs could eventually be one of the most important forms of personal transportation, and had already been supporting that cause. 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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Cars That Think

APRIL 17, 2022

This inexpensive inertial-measurement sensor was the first such device to be incorporated into automobiles, enabling electronic stability-control (ESC) systems to detect skidding and operate the brakes to prevent rollover accidents. 1972, University of California, Los Angeles, both in electrical engineering; Ph.D., the GyroChip.

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. But Zadeh never wavered.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While the ChargePoint device is framed as being free, it does require the purchase of a new automobile through the automaker’s captive finance arm Hyundai Capital America. Additionally, the fear of running out of battery energy without access to a charger is perpetuated by the lack of a universal charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The project thus marks a milestone along the way that leads from the self-propelled (automobile) to the self-driving (autonomous) vehicle, the company said. In August 1888, Bertha Benz set off on the first long-distance automobile journey from Mannheim to Pforzheim. Autonomous driving with production-based sensors.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2012

Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is leading an effort to enable an automobile engine to function as an autonomous intelligent system capable of learning and realizing its optimal calibration in real-time under different conditions while the driver is driving. Source: Malikopoulos 2010. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Davis, personal communication, February 20, 2010). The report was sponsored by The University of Michigan and by the research consortium Sustainable Worldwide Transportation. Current members of this research consortium are: Autoliv Electronics; Bosch; FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society; General. evolutionary thinking.

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Cars That Think

JULY 31, 2022

the John Bardeen professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana , and the creator of the first LEDs. One use is for exterior lighting on automobiles, where the long life and small size of LEDs permit car designers to combine lower assembly costs with more unusual styling.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. The technology has gotten better and many of the elements of self-driving cars are already embedded into our current automobiles. DOT, NHTSA and the University of Michigan. The ride continues.].

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 7, 2024

Vision Zero likewise strives to see lower speed limits implemented everywhere and roads designed to cater to pedestrians and bicycles, rather than automobiles.& Physically separating pedestrians from automobiles certainly seems wise and there are likely urban environments that would benefit from lower speed limits.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Provide clear goals, committee independence About Sterling: Sterling drives a 2019 Tesla Model 3 Dual Motor AWD FSD and is an electric automobile enthusiast while employed as a vetting specialist for ConocoPhillips. Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead. 40 CFR § 80.27

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Provide clear goals, committee independence About Sterling: Sterling drives a 2019 Tesla Model 3 Dual Motor AWD FSD and is an electric automobile enthusiast while employed as a vetting specialist for ConocoPhillips. Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2022

Universities have these very creative, forward looking people who frequently aren’t bothered by whatever the legacy solutions are. So, I’d like to make a robot that you can take into a factory, where it watches a person doing a job, and figures out how to do that job itself. And they’re frequently going for blue sky research.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 20, 2024

Italian Under the Skin Scratch the surface of the 2024 Dodge Hornet R/T and you will find the Alfa Romeo Tonale, with Dodge and Alfa Romeo two of 16 Stellantis automobile brands sold throughout the world. The color choices give an indication of what Dodge is trying to convey about the Hornet-fun and with personality.

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Plug In Partners

JULY 20, 2006

Four years ago, the professor at the University of California at Davis and a team of engineering students created a plug-in vehicle. The university students reversed the roles by combining a more powerful electric motor that went 50 miles without using any gasoline. A typical hybrid has a big gasoline engine and a tiny electric motor.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The details of that specific situation may result in an electric vehicle parc somewhat different than in Western countries, other speakers noted, and may indeed—given the obvious scale of the China market—herald a major transformation in transportation, including the type and role of personal vehicles, others suggested.

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