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DOT awards more than $45M to three Connected Vehicle Pilot sites for phase two

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The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) awarded three cooperative agreements collectively worth more than $45 million to initiate the design/build/test phase of the Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program. Selected in 2015, the Connected Vehicle Pilot sites include Wyoming, New York City, and Tampa. Earlier post.).

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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The patent is for a food container that uses fractal designs to create pits and bulges in its sides. Designed for the packaging industry, the new configuration allows containers to fit more tightly together so they can be transported better. The network can then alter the training data, thereby generating new designs.

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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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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. The pine tree developed for this project is designed both to. the use of a new motor design, addition of emerging materials, and the incorporation of advanced manufacturing techniques. This metal composite magnet design contains. 6,367,276.

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It turns out cyclists actually should roll through stop signs. Here’s why

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Another study performed in Tampa Bay, Florida, (a state infamous for its questionable drivers) and commissioned by the Florida Department of Transportation, “found that dangerous street design and motorists are what put cyclists at risk, not cyclist behavior.”

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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

The Truth About Cars

& For those unfamiliar, Vision Zero is an initiative designed to change government policy around driving by reducing speeds and restricting automotive traffic — with an end goal of totally eliminating “traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.” & Make no mistake.

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Florida Highway Patrol PIT Maneuvers Toyota Supra At 100 MPH

The Truth About Cars

Petersburg to Tampa which has a speed limit of 55 mph. The department has a test track and is often influential in how pursuit vehicles are designed and whether or not their peers will adopt them into service. The FHP reported that a trooper attempted to stop the Toyota, with Ramnarine fleeing across the bridge.

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Dannar brings a multipurpose electric platform to the off-highway market

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Some of these vehicles, often called vocational trucks , are designed for incredibly specialized applications (think of a cement mixer, a street cleaner or an airport de-icing truck), and it wouldnt be economically efficient for an OEM to offer enough dedicated models to address them all. Charged spoke with founder and CEO Gary Dannar.

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