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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

Cars That Think

Also, constant communication will be needed to enable vehicles to maintain a safe distance from one another, to collaboratively sense obstacles, and to relay information from vehicle to vehicle when they are beyond line of sight from the ground-control stations. The radios were placed along the corridor. The above sequence was repeated twice.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

Metropolitan Energy Information Center’s Midwest Region Alternative Fuels Project. Vehicles to be deployed include 163 CNG, the vast majority for high mileage taxis and 18 heavy-duty LNG refuse trucks. The project will deploy refueling stations and alternative fuel vehicles in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.