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Cars That Think
OCTOBER 4, 2022
What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! The sense I’m getting is that Optimus isn’t as bad as people thought, but also, nobody [in the robotics community] is very impressed or surprised by any of the tech. Roboticist, Google Brain. The tech isn’t there for anyone. Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab.
The Truth About Cars
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
If Dan Kois wants us to live in a world where we all drive cheap, underpowered cars that are limited to 85 mph, he has that right. A world where even a lowly $20K car isn’t too strictly speed-limited by on-board tech. Furthermore, one can drive hard enough to have fun without speeding excessively. Expensive luxury/performance cars?
Cars That Think
MAY 17, 2023
It’s a textbook example of the mixture of amazement and, especially, anxiety that often accompanies a tech triumph. 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. And it’s really cheap.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 26, 2023
In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. At issue was a reinforcement-learning AI system that Google uses to do a key step in laying out chunks of logic and memory for its AI accelerator chips, or TPUs. Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design Chung-Kuan Cheng et al. nanometers.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
The ship’s captain stopped the engines, and the aircraft flashed its lights at the rubber boat. If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. The tech is there to rescue Europe from the migrants, not the migrants from the sea.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 29, 2023
This Mirror Reverses How Light Travels in Time Nature Physics In an esoteric bit of research this year, a group of researchers based at universities in New York City discovered how to pass a signal through something called a “time interface”—the result being that the entire signal acted like it was moving back in time.
EV Central
DECEMBER 28, 2022
For the money, the drive experience (bar the handling), its features, tech, style and overall presentation surpassed my quite low expectations. John Carey: Renault Megane E-Tech. There are several very good reasons the Renault Megane E-Tech is my standout EV of 2022. Renault Megane E-Tech. Biggest EV surprise of 2022.
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