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Junkyard Find: 1992 Pontiac LeMans SE Aerocoupe

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By that time, The General was already cooking up the Geo brand for use with vehicles designed or built by its Japanese partners. The Pontiac Division had used the Le Mans/LeMans name since it designated a Tempest trim package in 1961 , becoming a separate model for the 1964 model year. The LeMans was cheap but not that cheap.

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2025 MG ZS Hybrid+ Excite Review: Updates to this affordable SUV means the battery now stays charged, but it still left us feeling a little flat

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In the old days (last year), the MG ZS compact SUV was cheap and cheerful rental fleet fodder, but now its meant to be something that appeals beyond its price. But its definitely still a generation shy of being able to match the best vehicles on offer in this segment. MG ZS Hybrid+ Excite. So, anyway, on with the show. SCORE: 3.0/5

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Lucid Motors chooses Mobileye as partner for autonomous vehicle technology

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These accelerator cores have been designed specifically to address the needs of the ADAS and autonomous-driving markets. The VMP is a VLIW SIMD processor, with cheap and flexible memory access, provides hardware support for operations common to computer vision applications and is well-suited to multi-core scenarios. Earlier post.)

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IBM Research discovers new class of industrial polymers; cheaper, lighter, stronger and recyclable thermosets for aerospace, automotive and others

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Many researchers are now challenging this classical definition with concepts of recyclable networks, reworkable encapsulants, reversible gels, self-healing polymeric coatings, and stimuli-responsive polymeric structures.

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Robots and Humans Make Murals Together

Cars That Think

Robots are also well known for not being especially creative—depending I suppose on your definition of “creative.” Seeing this—perhaps naively—I feel like I could jump right in there and design my own 3D wall art (which I would totally do, given the chance). That will eliminate the need for designers to be on-site.

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Hacking A Car-Radio Chip Into The Ultimate SDR Receiver

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At a time when we all carry smartphones that can stream high-definition movies into our hands, the romance of listening to old-school analog broadcast radio nevertheless endures. During the COVID lockdown of 2020, I started designing a completely open-source tuner that would wring the highest possible performance out of the chip for FM DXers.

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Wireless Heater Made From a Leaf Skeleton Is Fully Biodegradable

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We’ve gotten very, very good at making things that are cheap and durable. Realistically, making everything eco-friendly isn’t practical, but making some things eco-friendly is— even for a very strict definition of eco-friendly that takes the availability of raw materials, reusability, and eventual disposal into account. Katherine W.

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