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8 Products That Excel at Protecting Children’s Digital Privacy

Cars That Think

In the IEEE Standards Association ’s continued effort to help organizations create a safe, secure, privacy-preserving digital environment for youngsters, it recently released the second edition of “Applied Case Studies for Designing Trustworthy Digital Experiences for Children.” Fill out this form to receive links to download the PDF reports.

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US DOT releases major update of ITS Architecture Reference and Toolsets

Green Car Congress

The Architecture Reference for Cooperative and Intelligent Transportation (ARC-IT) version 9.0 is a major release of the US National ITS Architecture Reference that fully defines and upgrades the four architecture views that were initially defined in ARC-IT 8.0. Users of version 7.1 As with version 8.3,

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“Insanely frightening and incredibly cool”: What it is really like to catch a self-driving robo-taxi

EV Central

But it turns out there is one machine that becomes insanely frightening as soon as it exceeds walking speeds – a self-driving taxi, or AV (Autonomous Vehicle) as the cool folks in San Francisco, for whom they are already a way of life, refer to them.

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

Cars That Think

And maybe the problem— again, it’s a dark matter problem, not so much the car at the center, but this sort of infrastructure— just talk a little bit about Bob’s book, which is, by the way, free to download, and we’ll have the link in the show notes. Not in terms of personal projects, but certainly for commercial environments.

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GM demonstrating embedded and smartphone implementations of V2X communications at ITS World Congress

Green Car Congress

In the US, DSRC refers generically to communications on a dedicated 5.9 GHz frequency band reserved using the Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) protocols defined in the IEEE 1609 standard and its subsidiary parts. These protocols build on the established IEEE 802.11 standards for Wi-Fi wireless networking.

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How Generative AI Helped Me Imagine a Better Robot

Cars That Think

The phrase refers to how the AI software iterates through design mutations and converges on high-performing designs. In these kinds of engineering environments, co-designing with generative AI, high-quality, structured data, and well-studied parameters can clearly lead to more creative and more effective new designs.

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Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

Cars That Think

Ng: This is a term coined by Percy Liang and some of my friends at Stanford to refer to very large models, trained on very large data sets, that can be tuned for specific applications. The dominant paradigm over the last decade was to download the data set while you focus on improving the code.

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