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Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

Cars That Think

In 1969, Salter and Barrow published in Machine Intelligence their results, Design of Low-Cost Equipment for Cognitive Robot Research, which included suggestions for the next iteration of the robot. The fact that such a brilliant and learned person could be so confidently wrong about something so important should give us pause.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A very low cost EV is taking a golf cart transaxle or whole GC rear/seat and weld, ect a MC front end, frame, title to it, change the batteries from 6vdc to 12vdc to double the voltage and use larger dia VW Rabbit tires and you can have a nice 1- 3 person MC trike that goes 45-55mph and 50+ mile range.

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