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GM expands EV first responder training efforts in US and Canada

Green Car Congress

The best way for the public and private vehicle fleet owners to rapidly adopt EVs is to train firefighters and emergency responders on how to handle incidents involving battery powered vehicles. GM’s training includes guidance on doing this more sparingly to keep battery management systems active.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

Networking: The Story of Ethernet By today’s standards the Alto was not a particularly powerful computer. It quickly became clear that if we wanted to do a raster scan system, we ought to do it compatible with television standards so that we could easily obtain monitors and cameras and videotape recorders,” Shoup recalled.

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