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Quota Time: Connecticut Troopers May Have Faked 1000s of Citations

The Truth About Cars

According to local media , an audit stemming from an internal investigation has apparently uncovered a scheme in which troopers faked upwards of 26,000 tickets over a seven-year period. It’s no secret that those holding the levers of power sometimes look to such statistics when planning new roadways or adjusting speed limits, for example.

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Tesla Autopilot, Full Self-Driving ‘marketing’ under fire from familiar U.S. senator

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Now, Markey, along with Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, penned a letter to Lina Khan, the head of the FTC, stating they are concerned about Tesla’s “advertising” of Autopilot. Interestingly, Tesla’s statistics have shown Autopilot as an extremely safe alternative compared to human-controlled vehicles.

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ICCT paper assesses leading regional EV markets in US and policies behind them

Green Car Congress

A new white paper from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses which policy actions are behind the regional leading markets in the US for electric vehicles. The base regional unit for the study was the metropolitan statistical area (MSA). The assessment includes promotion actions by state policy (e.g.,

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California will ban new gasoline car sales

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The rule is being issued by the California Air Resources Board, known as CARB, and will prohibit any driver from buying a new vehicle that utilizes an internal combustion engine for its powertrain. California has the most cars in the United States, according to the Department of Highway Statistics. It aligned with them this year.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

If a page had no uppercase Qs in it, the character generator would economize on internal memory by not generating a pattern for a capital “Q.” Doug Engelbart [of SRI International Inc. Xerox executives made all sorts of promises: we’ll buy 20,000, just talk to this executive in Virginia, then talk to this executive in Connecticut.

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