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Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It

Creative Greenius

I went to Detroit last month and found myself in neighborhoods that looked like they had been attacked by enemy forces, had lost their battle and had now surrendered and in most part been abandoned. No this is a job for the company I’ve long been a stockholder of – Google. photo by Galliani (c). Communications.

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

Green Car Congress

One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. 3.3), as did Apple Siri (3.4,

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

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Belgium or Brooklyn? 5 Bold New Places to Eat in Brussels.

Baua Electric

Thanks to a crop of young chefs with iconoclastic ideas about flavor and sustainability, the city, in thrall to the rich sauces of Gaul for nearly two centuries, has emerged as one of the most exciting, and affordable, places to dine out in Europe right now. Here are five Brussels restaurants worth a visit.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

New ideas like Tesloop keep popping up. Each vehicle has a home location: a reserved parking space located on a street, driveway, or neighborhood parking lot in the member’s area, to which it must be returned at the end of the reservation. Investors in RelayRides included Google Ventures and GM Ventures.

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Car News: 2024 Consumer Electronics Show

Clean Fleet Report

The Platform Beyond Vehicle idea is not new (Nissan tried it years ago with the Pulsar), but actually doing it is making a bold statement from Kia. Polestar and Google All Polestar vehicles have Google Built-In , but now the technology will have enhanced features.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Google Inc. And Reuben Munger, former managing partner at investment firm Baupost Group LLC, is a founder and chairman of Bright, which developed a fully electric delivery van called Idea. NEV stands for neighborhood electric vehicle, which can travel at a top speed of 25 mph.

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