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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. Combined Function Automation (Level 2) : This level involves automation of at least two primary control functions designed to work in unison to relieve the driver of control of those functions.

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Perspective: Europeans in the lead with range extenders for hybrid vehicles; 2nd vs. 3rd generation

Green Car Congress

That includes most forklifts, golf cars and mobility vehicles for the disabled plus Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and personal submarines. The company is also producing a US variant of the conference in San Jose, California in November. Indeed, most electric aircraft are pure electric as well. Largest sector by value.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

His Vodafone team worked on technologies that would limit the use of personal data for advertising and “eyeball-grabbing, because they are very disruptive and can incentivize the spread of disinformation. The tokens, along with using smart contracts to reduce legal fees, would make real-time exchange and monetization feasible, he says.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

Any system he designed, he vowed, would have to have a “Print Anything” architecture. It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. In 1977, that project was released by Evans & Sutherland as The Design System. “It of Cupertino, Calif.)

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. The Busicom engineers had no interest in dumping their design in favor of Hoff’s unproved proposal. San Jose, Calif., The project was given the internal moniker “4004.”

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