Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. Tan had filed a patent application for his invention a month before the 2000 CeBIT tech fair, but a pending patent did little to stop copycats.
Charged EVs
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. Android running the dashboard means Google Assistant, Google Maps, Google Play Store, and more, are instantly available and work the way you already use them. Until now, it’s had no plug-in option.
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.
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.
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. Never mind that perhaps some of the accidents linked were perhaps the same ones being covered by multiple news outlets.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
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. What the tech is up against. Tech postpones or relocates border confrontations.
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