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A Waymo robotaxi hit a cyclist in San Francisco – here’s what happened

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According to the report, the Waymo vehicle was at a full stop at the four-way intersection of 17th and Mississippi in Potrero Hill, with a large truck turning into the intersection. This all falls as Waymo is looking to expand its full driverless robotaxi service in Los Angeles , where it is currently testing rides.

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$112.5M awarded to research consortia studying effects of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf of Mexico

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Project Title: Deep-C: Deepsea to Coast Connectivity in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Lead Institution: University of Mississippi. Lead Institution: Florida State University. Lead Investigator: Eric Chassignet, Ph.D. Lead Investigator: Raymond Highsmith, Ph.D. Project Title: Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG).

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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The project will result in the development of approximately 184 liquid propane Autogas refueling stations in the following major metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Denver, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Dallas, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Seattle, Orlando, San Diego, St. Hunt LNG Truck Project: Made in America Initiative.

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Relativity Space’s first 3D-printed rocket goes vertical for launch debut

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Founded in 2015, the private Los Angeles-based spaceflight company shipped its first complete rocket prototype to Florida in June 2022. Instead of building a dedicated booster test stand in Mississippi, Relativity chose to modify Terran 1’s lone LC-16 launch pad for the crucial task. and hold it down before liftoff.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. at San Diego, Mississippi State. California Los Angeles, Ford Motor Company). Mississippi State. to connect photovoltaic solar panels to the grid. connected together. connected together. This will allow a.

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John Brooks Slaughter: Courageous Advocate for Diversity in STEM

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I visited schools in Mississippi, North Carolina, and Georgia, and I established relationships with some of the scientists at Howard University ,” an HBCU in Washington, D.C. “I He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles , where he earned a master’s degree in engineering in 1961.