Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Regardless of what you might think about AI, the reality is that just about every successful deployment has either one of two expedients: It has a person somewhere in the loop, or the cost of failure, should the system blunder, is very low. Our worst failure scenarios had the Roomba missing a patch of floor and failing to pick up a dustball.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2009
Crane also mentioned that one-quarter to one-third of the cost of a battery system is the packaging, integration and electronics. The systems are designed to maintain mobility for the elderly and those with weakened leg muscles. The operations in Kuwait and Iraq use approximately 431 million gallons of fuel per year.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 21, 2022
And yet who better to design the next great leap in technology than men remade by technology themselves? 60,000 amputations were performed) inaugurated the modern prosthetics era in the United States, thanks to federal funding and a wave of design patents filed by entrepreneurial prosthetists. As Verne understood, the U.S.
Cars That Think
APRIL 27, 2024
Take, for example, this case described by a Marine who served in Iraq: My team once had a robot that was obnoxious. As a result, warfighter demands become exceedingly complex, especially since the potential costs of failure are unacceptable. The Reaper [bottom] is designed for both high-altitude surveillance and destroying targets.
Cars That Think
MAY 17, 2023
Over time, as weapons system provokes countermeasures, their designers respond with improvements, and the gold-plating accumulates. In 1938, a single British Spitfire cost £9,500 to produce, equivalent to about US $1 million today. But a technologically powerful country needn’t count the cost; the United States certainly didn’t.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
The current electrical grid is poorly designed for distributed generation of power. Annual use of an EV should be less than the average cost of $8,000 per year for using a gasoline in many countries including the USA. Why not ake it all the way and spend 1 year of Iraq on retrofitting every home in America with nano solar.
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