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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

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And they did, and it did a lot of really bad things; it ran red lights. O’Dowd: In March, in North Carolina, a self-driving Tesla blew past a school bus with its red lights flashing and hit a child in the road, just like we showed in our Super Bowl commercial. Cruise just announced they were going to open Dallas and Houston.

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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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several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the. light energy. uptake, and optimized light utilization. project, QM Power and its team will develop a motor that uses. no rare earth materials, but is light, compact, and potentially.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I — Mark - Dallas 21. — Mark - Dallas 25. Dimming the Lights to Meet Demand About Green Inc. They are all large ships not easily turned.

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