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The driverless technology from Nissan Motor Corp., Takeshi Kimura, the Mobility and AI Laboratory engineer at Nissan, insists an automaker is more adept at integrating self-driving technology with the overall workings of a car simply because it knows cars better. ” Nissan says its technology is safe. Toyota Motor Corp.
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Then some of the early golf-cart-esque electric LSVs that sold in California during the mid-to-late 2000s began showing up in the Pick-n-Pulls of the Golden State. Lots of green technology history on the East Bay side of Silicon Valley! I've been documenting electric cars in junkyards for about a decade.
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I think Ed Kjaer, head of electric transportation for Southern California Edison, had the best quote at the podium saying that nobody should think EVs are just golfcarts or that the technology isn’t ready: “It is so ready. The country is ready, the market is ready, the people are ready and news flash, the technology is ready.”
The firm’s primary goal of building a classic Waverley with present-day technology was in the planning stages for 10 years. It’s basically just a souped-up golfcart, but Ford wouldn’t allow them to import it into the US. They make sightseeing vehicles, and they’d built an EV that resembled a Ford Model T,” Steiner said.
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