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These new EV charging features are coming to Google Maps

Baua Electric

Map: Google Google’s new Maps features help EV drivers find exact information about EV chargers’ locations, plan charging stops for road trips, and more. EV charging stations near me You’ll soon see nearby EV chargers on the in-car Map, including real-time port availability and charging speed. Get started here. –ad*

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Electric Volvo XC40 features new infotainment system powered by Android with Google technologies built-in

Green Car Congress

Powered by Android, the new infotainment system offers customers unprecedented personalization, improved levels of intuitiveness and new embedded Google technology and services. The Google Assistant also allows a driver to interact with smart-home devices from the car.

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Ford launches app developer challenge to improve consumer understanding of personal fuel efficiency

Green Car Congress

Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.

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Qualcomm introduces 4th generation Snapdragon automotive cockpit platforms

Green Car Congress

The AI Engine supports driver and passenger personalization, in-car virtual assistance, natural voice control, language understanding, driver monitoring and occupant presence detection and adaptive human machine interfaces. Qualcomm Technologies has secured infotainment and digital cockpit wins with 20 of the 25 global automaker brands.

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Mercedes-Benz launches new private car-sharing scheme: Croove

Green Car Congress

The relevant app will be available to download from December from the Apple iTunes store at first. Not long after launch though, there will also be an Android version in the Google Play Store, along with a desktop website for booking a vehicle. Croove is a smartphone-based platform.

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Tesla for a vaccine: Doctor offers the ultimate COVID-19 vaccination incentive

Teslarati

He told Teslarati that, as a believer in global climate change, this was the perfect incentive as electric cars give off zero emissions. Raffle tickets will be given when participants get their second vaccination shot, meaning that the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are available for patients. Dr. Raul Vazquez, M.D.

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The Mythical Non-Roboticist

Cars That Think

Global mutable state is bad programming style because it’s really hard to deal with, but to robot software the entire physical world is global mutable state, and you only get to unreliably observe it and hope your actions approximate what you wanted to achieve. As I well know from personal experience. 5 No to both!

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