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How the World Views Autonomous Vehicles

The Truth About Cars

Photo credit: Florenc.Elezi / Shutterstock.com In a recent global survey conducted by Maison Law, a personal injury law firm based in Fresno, California, the levels of trust and comfort with autonomous vehicles were explored across different countries.

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Why I Became An Advocate for Girls and Women

Cars That Think

She was the most confident person I have met. He was a village mayor, known as mukhtar in Arabic. Over the years, she became the person who would help resolve issues and tell everyone what they needed to do. For three years, she helped build the family’s 250-square-meter house while my father traveled for work.

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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

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The task force collaborates on organizing virtual and in-person events with IEEE groups including Women in Engineering and external organizations such as the International Renewable Energy Agency. Another panel is scheduled for April at the IRENA Assembly in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

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Competition Spurs Robotics and AI Innovations for Maritime Challenges

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The basic aim of the challenge is to find the proverbial needle in a haystack using a combination of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and an unmanned surface vessel (USV) to search an area that the Coast Guard would have to search in person to find a bad actor vessel. Arthur Morrish, CEO of ASPIRE The challenge runs in three phases.

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Hyperloop: An Engineering Marvel or An Elite Day Dream

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Electric skates can transport eight to sixteen persons or a single-passenger vehicle. “Although Hyperloop will be fast, the systems we are building will accelerate with the same tolerable G-forces as that of taking off in a Boeing 747,” and acceleration and deceleration will be gradual with no G-forces and turbulence it added.

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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

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It took me 17 days to reach the United Arab Emirates, and my route went through fascinating places like the Kurdish region of Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. To see nothing but desert for miles as a Dutch person? They can be up to three km long, and each train carries 17,000 tons of ore, enough to build an Eiffel Tower.