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First videos of The Boring Company’s working LVCC Loop in action emerge

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The Boring Company’s Las Vegas Convention Center Loop is now complete, and the first batch of videos of the low-cost underground transport system in action have been shared online. vegas #boringcompany #elonmusk pic.twitter.com/RS0g3AuPKO. — Jeff Gillan (@jgillanNews3LV) April 9, 2021.

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The Boring Company’s skeptics need to calm down about the LVCC Loop

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The Boring Company’s Las Vegas Convention Center Loop has been completed, and as with every other project from Elon Musk, the initiative has attracted a barrage of criticism from skeptics, some of whom have ridiculed and mocked the transport tunnel system. Kylie Jenner showing off The Boring Company tunnel in Las Vegas.

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Hyundai introduces new autonomous IONIQ concept at AutoMobility LA

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Hyundai Motor Company introduced the Autonomous IONIQ concept during its press conference at AutoMobility LA (Los Angeles Auto Show). Hyundai’s goal for the autonomous IONIQ concept was to keep the self-driving systems as simple as possible. Stop lights, stop signs and school zones. Road construction and roadblocks.

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Toyota developing new cloud-based high-precision map generation system using data from production vehicles

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The new system will go on display at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2016 in Las Vegas next month. Furthermore, the system can be implemented and scaled up at a relatively low cost. Toyota’s new system uses camera-equipped production vehicles to gather road images and vehicle positional information. Earlier post.)

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Ricardo launches pre-production prototype of high-speed flywheel energy storage for off-road equipment

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Ricardo will introduce TorqStor—the latest generation of Ricardo’s high speed flywheel energy storage technology—at the CONEXPO 2014 show in Las Vegas as a pre-production prototype for OEM product integration. Click to enlarge. —Ricardo VP of Innovation David Rollafson. Click to enlarge.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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The projects were selected through a merit-based process from thousands of concept papers and hundreds of full applications. sunlight through low-cost, plastic light-guiding sheets and then. If successful, the new crop would have a lower cost of. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline. Nevada Las.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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Just last year, a half dozen precisely targeted malicious drones managed to slow oil production in Saudi Arabia for days, and more recently, several low-cost drones caused significant damage to oil tankers in the UAE. The fundamental concept is to never trust and always verify the provenance of each request.

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