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Another fatal Tesla crash on Autopilot goes to trial, but with new evidence this time

Baua Electric

The trial is now set to start next week in a San Jose court and more pieces of evidences are coming out as the court determines what they will be able to show to the jury. Now, on a legal basis, I don’t know how valuable this argument is, but it sounds like some experts think there’s a case.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

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. Self-driving is legal in California, but automakers must have at least $5 million in insurance or post a bond. Talk amongst yourselves.

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

Green Car Congress

By contrast, half the electric vehicle market value lies in larger road vehicles, notably cars, and here the legal restrictions are weaker or non-existent and range anxiety compels most people to buy hybrids if they go electric at all. The company is also producing a US variant of the conference in San Jose, California in November.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

The tokens, along with using smart contracts to reduce legal fees, would make real-time exchange and monetization feasible, he says. Alamouti began his engineering career as a part-time contract worker designing and building mobile-data protocols for taxi dispatch systems at Mobile Data International , in Vancouver. Wireless innovator.

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Plug In 2008

Plug In Partners

T he Plug in 2008 National PHEV Conference in San Jose by most accounts was a big success. The announcement, which follows Google's request for proposals from companies with electric car technologies, came Tuesday during the Plug-In 2008 conference in San Jose, Calif. Aptera, of Carlsbad, Calif.,

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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. Those lessons learned, his group turned to expanding Gaffney’s little interpreter into a full programming system for computer-aided design (CAD). In 1977, that project was released by Evans & Sutherland as The Design System. “It but also C.

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Volkswagen’s Electrify America supplement discusses ZEV charging investments in disadvantaged California communities

Green Car Congress

The court-ordered, legally binding settlements reached between California, the Federal Government, and VW will result in VW providing the State of California with $688 million, which the state can spend as it desires, on the priorities of state government, without regard to investment prerogatives. The supplement adds a sixth: Fresno.

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