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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. Was it not the same person because the friend's jaw was more angular? Why would I bother to do that, you ask? That, however, isn't really true.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. When are we going to have full (level-5) self-driving cars? Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? Can they throw it 10 miles?

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E Paper License Plates Now Street-Legal in California

Cars That Think

2022 : The “Kindle” of license plates— Reviver ’s connected, digital RPlate —is now legal for use by any California car-owner, following a 10,000-car pilot that started in 2018. And, when the car is stopped, drivers will also be able to reduce the license number to a small window and use the rest of the screen for a different graphic.

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Hyundai Ioniq 6 AWD Techniq review

EV Central

Car design has become increasingly uniform this past decade, so it’s refreshing to see something genuinely different. No locked-in price or confirmation of final specification, but we were promised the LHD Korean test cars we drove would basically feature the same equipment as Australian cars. Distinctive. Challenging.

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Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

Cars That Think

IEEE Spectrum carried out its conversation with Foster by email to find out more about why RF exposure assessment research has been such a success, what makes RF dosimetry so difficult, and why public worries about health and wireless radiation never seem to go away. The list goes on. Exposure assessment plays some role in this.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

The nightmare scenario Darbee has is that on a very hot day, after businesses have been running operations, lights and air conditioning all day, people go home, turn the AC on or up, and plug their car in. Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. Earlier post.).

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Volt Blocher

Honda S2000 EV Conversion

I wasn't sure what I was going to do for balancing as anything on the market is not cheap. Dimitri, a buddy of mine from Florida who is working on his second conversion, ask what my plans were for balancing, but I had none. Here is a picture of them installed in the car. I named them Volt Blocher. Lots of red and green lights.

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