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Opinion: Will Self-Driving Cars Eventually Repossess Themselves?

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New Technology Raises New Legal Questions. More than 1,400 autonomous vehicles from more than 80 companies are being tested on U.S. These hypotheticals range from serious to ridiculous–somewhere in the middle lies this question: If you were leasing a self-driving car and fell behind on payments, could it repossess itself?

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Bridgestone to acquire TomTom’s telematics business for $1B in cash

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TomTom is the number one provider of digital fleet solutions in Europe, a marketplace with very diverse in legal, commercial and cultural requirements. With this acquisition, Bridgestone adds core components to its Tire and Diversified Products as a Solution (Bridgestone T&DPaaS) strategy defining the company’s evolving business domain.

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

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That includes most forklifts, golf cars and mobility vehicles for the disabled plus Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and personal submarines. IDTechEx is producing an event looking at the whole range of electric vehicles. The company is also producing a US variant of the conference in San Jose, California in November.

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Riversimple introduces Rasa prototype two-seater fuel cell vehicle; 300 miles on 1.5kg H2; production version in 2018

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unveiled the Rasa, a road-legal engineering prototype of its first two-seater hydrogen fuel cell road car, built for full European type approval. Led by Riversimple’s Founder, Hugo Spowers, the Rasa has been engineered by a team from carmakers, Formula 1 teams and aerospace engineering companies. Riversimple Movement Ltd. Earlier post.)

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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However our governments choose to regulate AI, we need to promote a diverse AI ecosystem: from large companies building proprietary superintelligence to everyday tinkerers experimenting with open technology. We’ve seen what happens when critical digital infrastructure is controlled by just a few companies. However, the E.U.

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Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

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He was one of the founders of the field of cyber forensics, which involves collecting and analyzing digital data for investigations and providing legally admissible evidence. Fast forward to today, and looking at any major system in use, no person alive can do the same thing. Spafford wrote the first papers on the topic.

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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Pedott also discovered that the company behind it was a sham, at least according to his oral history with the National Museum of American History. After Pedott acquired the patent, which was assigned to his company, Joseph Enterprises, he hired Carlile Stevens and Dale Reamer to get the device to work. Eventually, they filed for a U.S.

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