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Tesla FSD Beta 10.69.2 gets green light for all testers with v10.12.2

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And long-time Early Access software tester Les from Fort Worth, Texas said he rarely experiences phantom braking. . “It powers forward and then slams on the brakes at the last minute with turn signal only moments before the turn. gets green light for all testers with v10.12.2 Are you an FSD Beta Tester?

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SwRI-led team achieves 20% improvement in vehicle fuel efficiency with connectivity, automation; ARPA-E NEXTCAR

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The team achieved these benefits by developing the next generation in vehicle dynamic and powertrain (VD&PT) control software, designed to proactively use “look-ahead” information to anticipate vehicle power demand. The new tools developed to meet these efficiency goals include eco-routing, eco-driving and power-split optimization.

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New “50 by 50” Commission seeks to halve US transportation energy use by 2050

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The way in which vehicles are powered and how they’re driven is evolving. The Commission’s Technical Committees and their chairs are: Light-duty Vehicles. Chair: Robert Chapman, Vice President, Energy and Environment, Electric Power Research Institute. We’re at a fascinating time in the transportation industry. Non-road (e.g.,

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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Schoolchildren didn’t have access to the Internet or reliable electric lighting for studying after dark. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Two days after the launch, Goddard received its first MSS image, showing the Dallas–Fort Worth area. (In The light from the mirror passed through filters and onto the 24-element array of detectors—six for each of the MSS’s four spectral bands—yielding 24 channels of video data. ERTS had a spatial resolution of 80 meters.

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

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These projects put more than 9,000 alternative fuel and energy-efficient light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles on the road, and establish 542 refueling locations across the country. Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Santa Barbara, CA.,