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At Last, a Self-Driving Car That Can Explain Itself

Cars That Think

After all, Apple’s Siri , Microsoft’s Cortana , Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home are all very impressive , but these systems function solely on voice input: They can’t understand or react to the environment around them. As we drive down a street in downtown Los Angeles, our system’s synthesized voice provides navigation instructions.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

I didn’t know that word, honestly,” (presumably referring to the word “mayday.”) “And I just heard it freaking coming on that he lost his rudder, that he needed pumps.” Stillwell asked if they had heard the call. “I I was putting my gloves and everything on the rack,” Libby told him. “I I heard it. Both men denied making the call.

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TSMC R&D Chief: There’s Light at the End of the Chip Shortage

Cars That Think

The commercial term nanometer refers to a new, improved generation of silicon semiconductor chips.). Growing up in Taiwan, the environment encouraged people to become scientists or engineers.”. also in EE, from the University of California, Los Angeles. By nature, I was interested in doing engineering,” he says.

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Heidi On The Hot Seat

Creative Greenius

The South Bay region I live and work in covers an area of 161 square miles and encompasses 15 cities plus portions of the City of Los Angeles and unincorporated portions of the County of Los Angeles. It hardly seems fair.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

Cars That Think

Madni Current job: Distinguished adjunct professor, University of California, Los Angeles ; retired president, CEO, and CTO, BEI Technologies Date of birth: 8 September 1947 Birthplace: Mumbai, India Family: Wife (Taj), son (Jamal) Education: 1968 graduate, RCA Institutes ; B.S., 1969, and M.S., 1969, and M.S.,

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2025 Tesla Cybertruck driven: Here’s what you need to know about the giant electric ute for Australia

EV Central

Despite all the obvious risks to our safety and our pride, EV Central recently flew to Los Angeles to drive the new Tesla Cybertruck. It describes Australia as “the perfect environment” for the giant vehicle, despite the fact that it is too big to fit in any of our car spaces. EV Central drives Tesla Cybertruck in Los Angeles.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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