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. These haven't been the only terrible failures of AI systems when no person was in the loop.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2009
Personal mobility redefined. 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. The association estimates a net savings of 22 lbs (10 kg) of CO 2 per pound (0.45 kg) of aluminum used.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 21, 2022
By the war’s end, with “not quite one arm between four persons, and exactly two legs between six,” these self-taught amputee-weaponsmiths decide to repurpose their skills toward a new projectile: a rocket ship. And yet who better to design the next great leap in technology than men remade by technology themselves?
Cars That Think
APRIL 27, 2024
In an online discussion about EOD support robots, one soldier wrote, “Those little bastards can develop a personality, and they save so many lives.” Take, for example, this case described by a Marine who served in Iraq: My team once had a robot that was obnoxious. An infantryman responded by admitting, “We liked those EOD robots.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
The current electrical grid is poorly designed for distributed generation of power. Why not ake it all the way and spend 1 year of Iraq on retrofitting every home in America with nano solar. Smart meters and substations will be integral. so I charge with bioavailable callories, and sell the exercise instead of rent it.
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