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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

You Can Buy Level 2 Today. Today, you can also buy Level 2 vehicles such as the Volvo XC90 with Intellisafe semi-autonomous capabilities such as lane keep, maintaining a safe distance from the car in front, and a 360-degree camera. Soon, we will able to buy a Level 2 or Level 3 autonomous vehicles. Talk amongst yourselves.

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Perspective: Europeans in the lead with range extenders for hybrid vehicles; 2nd vs. 3rd generation

Green Car Congress

By contrast, half the electric vehicle market value lies in larger road vehicles, notably cars, and here the legal restrictions are weaker or non-existent and range anxiety compels most people to buy hybrids if they go electric at all. The company is also producing a US variant of the conference in San Jose, California in November.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

As they planned to buy whatever hardware they needed after they had perfected their programming language, they focused first on Jam. San Jose, Calif., The company has no patents to defend, only copyrights and trade secrets, so if other companies can reproduce Adobe’s technology, it has no legal recourse. What’s NeXT?

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

San Jose, Calif., Currently, though history traces today’s microprocessor back to Hoff, Mazor, and Faggin, the legal rights to the invention belong to Hyatt. Most clever engineers would buy the replacement gear and install it. Most clever engineers would buy the replacement gear and install it. He chose the latter.

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