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NDEW wrap-up (Part II)

Electric Auto Association

Amazing NDEW Events around the country! NDEW event in Thornburg, Virginia. Last month, we highlighted National Drive Electric Week events in the Southwest, the far Northwest, and the lower Northwest. Our chapter also hosted a smaller event on Spetember 25 with 12 cars on display.” NDEW event in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

Cars That Think

Abbott, a physician as well as a lawyer, is a professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey’s School of Law. He also is an adjunct assistant professor at the Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and he wrote The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law. Charles, Mo.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Our first two ride & drives, in 2014 and 2015, were the largest NDEW events held in the area west of the Mississippi, south of St. Louis, and north of Florida. The chapter scheduled pre-events that stretched for nearly 3 weeks before NDEW began. We started off with a bang,” recalled Erb. The reason for the instant success?

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Elon Musk shares insights on jet tracker ban, Twitter’s privacy info policy updates

Teslarati

The University of Central Florida college student noted that he would continue tracking Elon Musk’s plane and sharing the information via alternative social media platforms such as Mastodon. . The updated privacy policy also includes private media images or videos of private individuals without their consent.

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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

Within a few years, outreach efforts by these chapter members at local electric vehicle (EV) events had grown to include presentations at conferences around the country, and eventually around the world. I took some surplus parts and motorcycle batteries… it was definitely Rube Goldberg style,” Smith explained. And now worldwide!

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National Academies’ Gulf Research Program awards $10.8M to address systemic risk in offshore oil and gas operations

Green Car Congress

The greatest risk in offshore oil and gas operations is the uncontrolled release of hydrocarbons and the threats such events pose to human health and safety, the environment, and infrastructure—as evidenced by the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Oklahoma State University. Louisiana State University. University of Houston.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

Cars That Think

After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. Assistant Professor, University of Toronto.

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