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DOT awards more than $45M to three Connected Vehicle Pilot sites for phase two

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The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) awarded three cooperative agreements collectively worth more than $45 million to initiate the design/build/test phase of the Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program. Selected in 2015, the Connected Vehicle Pilot sites include Wyoming, New York City, and Tampa. Earlier post.).

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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He spoke about the decision by South Africa during the Artificial Intelligence and the Law virtual event held in September by the IEEE student branch at the University of South Florida , in Tampa. Some patent applicants have been instructed by their attorney to use a person’s name on the patent even if a machine came up with the invention.

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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

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.& If you live somewhere that recently introduced new traffic cameras, driving fines ( e.g. congestion charging ), lower speed limits, bicycle rental kiosks, or additional bike lanes, there’s a good chance the person making those decisions was influenced by Vision Zero. & Make no mistake.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Florida, Tampa). residential and commercial buildings, where there are. production units, storage units, and consumers (homes, buildings, microgrids, utility systems). The project will enable “personalized” price signals to be. commercial-scale buildings that are compact enough to be. The overarching goal of.

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