Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Volkswagen Group and self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation, founded by technology veterans from Google, Tesla and Uber, announced a strategic collaboration ahead of the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Self-driving technology is set to become the centerpiece of future personal mobility. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2015

General Motors CEO Mary Barra and her leadership team outlined the company’s plans to capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership. eBike Concept. —Mary Barra. Let’s Drive NYC. Fuel Cell Propulsion.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Have you ever noticed how nice Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant are? This also felt completely in-line with that underlying motivation that got me (and so many other roboticists I know) into engineering and robotics in the first place—the desire to solve problems and build systems that improve people's quality of life.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

But the good news is computer programming and software development appears poised to remain a very human endeavor for the foreseeable future. Instead, they will need to understand the semantics, concepts, and logical sequences of building a computer program. Programmers will not always need to learn a programming language.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2016

With this service, we are building up on Drive Now, our extremely successful European business model, and bringing it up to a new level in the US. Merging the concept of conventional car rental services with car sharing, members will instantly and easily be able to extend the length of time with their vehicle through the ReachNow app.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In the near future, autonomous systems will bring a new level of digital transformation to the industry worth trillions of dollars, including automating transportation, traffic management, municipal services, law enforcement, shipping, port management, construction, agriculture, and more. The Zero Trust Security Paradigm.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In the summer of 1956, a group of mathematicians and computer scientists took over the top floor of the building that housed the math department of Dartmouth College. Yes, it's possible that we're in for yet another AI winter in the not-so-distant future. Yet there's little sense of doom among researchers. By 2017, the team had 1.5

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 30, 2023

These appliances are part of the broader concept of the Internet of Things (IoT), where everyday objects are connected to the internet, enabling them to collect and exchange data for improved functionality and user convenience. The stored ice is then used to cool buildings during peak demand times.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Or Google Assistant. This poses a bit of a problem for iRobot, which is now having to square all these really cool new capabilities with their original concept for the robot that I still remember as being best encapsulated by having just one single button that you could push, labeled "Clean" in nice big letters.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

During the past 12 months, the company’s initial offering – the aerodynamic Aptera 2e, an all-electric, three-wheeled two-seater that gets the equivalent of 200-plus mpg – has evolved from concept to near reality. “We’ve got to be wholly focused on funding and getting the first 2e on the road. About Aptera.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Different types of non-ownership alternatives promise to be the way of the future. Automakers have entered this market with mixed results, building substantial membership levels in only a few years, but they are also challenged with the new MaaS business model. Investors in RelayRides included Google Ventures and GM Ventures.

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Because companies bidding for New York’s conversion business must promise to build their facilities in the state, the plan may help move New York to the vanguard of a small industry with big potential. Imagine New York factories producing the high-tech vehicles of the future.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The upside is that a lot of work is being put into making these new satellite constellations more secure , even though it will likely take a lot of rethinking about how to design and build the thousands upon thousands of satellites that make up these growing networks. So even in the future, try not to misplace a security key.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid is the first electrified Audi sold in the US, and the first step towards an electrified future for Audi here, combining the Audi premium driving experience with the efficiency of an electric motor. We have a clutch that engages and connects the two, that gets the engine going. Driver Assistance.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 1, 2023

I’m using a word processor with the core features and functions of Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice’s Writer, along with an email client that could be mistaken for a simplified version of Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, or Mozilla Thunderbird. Alan Kay’s 1968 cardboard mockup of the Dynabook inspired future computer designers.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2023, our labs at Google and the University of California, Berkeley came together with 32 other robotics laboratories in North America, Europe, and Asia to undertake the RT-X project , with the goal of assembling data, resources, and code to make general-purpose robots a reality. We decided to give it a try.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The way we build and ship software these days is mostly ridiculous, leading to apps using millions of lines of code to open a garage door, and other simple programs importing 1,600 external code libraries —dependencies—of unknown provenance. It is still worth reading today since we have gone quite mad collectively. We don’t even know.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

From “ Yoshua Bengio, Revered Architect of AI, Has Some Ideas About What to Build Next " (December 2019). From “ AI and the Future of Work: The Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence " (November 2019). From “ Former Head of Google China Foresees an AI Crisis—and Proposes a Solution " (September 2018). “AI

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 23, 2023

Welcome to Fixing the Future , an IEEE Spectrum podcast. Today on Fixing the Future , I’m talking with Russell Wald, managing director for policy and society at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. The heads of OpenAI and Google have both openly discussed the need for regulations. Wald: Yeah.

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2022

That policy of limited public testing stands in contrast to Google’s policy with its own just-released text-to-image generator, Imagen. When unveiling the system, Google announced that it would not be releasing code or a public demo due to risks of misuse and generation of harmful images.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Today, some 350 organizations in 48 countries are designing, building, or flying eVTOLs, according to the Vertical Flight Society. Today, some 350 organizations in 48 countries are designing, building, or flying eVTOLs, according to the Vertical Flight Society. The main objective behind this was proof of concept,” he says.“I

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Today youd do it to be one of the first to drive the worlds cleanest extended range vehicle; in the future, youll do it because its an obvious and affordable win! CalCars supports conversion programs as a strategy to increase awareness and support for PHEVs and thereby motivate automakers to build production PHEVs.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 28, 2022

And while it’s improved, the build quality doesn’t match the big boys (you don’t have to look far to spot glitches). No, it’s not practical or family friendly, but who cares, it’s an EV that brings genuine joy, and one that gives any Tesla a proper spanking in terms of build quality and driver involvement.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There are some things to consider before building your bike. We can all drive into the future with the quiet yet powerful TVS iQube Electric. Ather is also the only scooter in the world that offers onboard navigation powered by Google. The company is committed to building a reliable electric vehicle brand.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 31, 2009

I have to admit that for the first few hours of day one in PV101: Introduction to Photovoltaics I was dazed and confused by all the foreign concepts I was trying to grasp at once. Now my head was swimming with concepts of Joules, Coulombs and electrons all dancing about in the mysterious ways they create electricity.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. The technology is available (evacuated tubes), theres no reason not to lead the world into the future. by treat747 April 17, 2009 12:51 PM PDT "Lead the world into the future?" Why does it need onstar?

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Cars That Think

APRIL 13, 2023

But now, thanks to the latest large language models from the AI research firm OpenAI , the concept of an artificial general intelligence suddenly seems much less speculative. But it has no concept of humor. Now we are building creatures that are clearly getting better and better at mimicking one of our unique hallmarks—intelligence.

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My Energi

AUGUST 12, 2021

Let’s put things into perspective, the term ‘melting ice caps’ gets an average of 2400 google searches a month whilst ‘Greenland ice caps’ gets 90 searches per month. Greenland Glacier, Racing, Melting Ice Caps… What’s it all about? The greatest problem is not necessarily the lack of awareness.

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