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Can Feminist Robots Challenge Our Biases?

Cars That Think

Have you ever noticed how nice Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant are? This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. How patient, and accommodating?

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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

Clean Fleet Report

It was established in 2017 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, where Volvo has been for a long time (although the Polestar 2 is built in China). As the setup was done already, all I did was say, “Hey, Google, play Bluegrass,” and the friendly female voice said, “I’m choosing Indie Bluegrass from Spotify,” and that was that.

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Detroit’s Inductive EV Charging Roads: Boon or Boondoggle?

The Truth About Cars

But city leadership doesn’t want to spoil the grandeur of what’s a very interesting concept.& & Leveraging technology from Electreon, MDOT has installed a section of road with inductive-charging coils that will charge electric vehicles (equipped with Electreon receivers) on the go. It’s an interesting concept for certain.

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