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ORNL researchers use stop-light cameras to reduce fuel consumption of less-efficient vehicles via traffic management

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Approximately 6 billion gallons of fuel are wasted in the US each year as vehicles wait at stop lights or sit in dense traffic with engines idling, according to US Department of Energy estimates. So, where to find a larger, fine-grained vehicle dataset?

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The Tesla of vans? Renault and Volvo create Flexis to revolutionise electric light commercial vehicles

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Hoping to repeat what Tesla did for electric cars, but for vans, the key to the success of the new Flexis brand that is also bankrolled by a French shipping and logistics firm CMA CGM is a bespoke dedicated architecture that will offer cutting edge EV tech. The post The Tesla of vans?

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2025 Cadillac OPTIQ unveiled: 300-mile range, 300 horsepower, $54,000 starting price

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Black Crystal Grille: OPTIQ’s signature black crystal grille incorporates the Cadillac vertical signature lighting and includes a laser-etched pattern within the grille that offers an understated, high-tech feel. The graphic pattern is found throughout OPTIQ and aligns with the Mondrian crest in a nod to classic Cadillac styling.

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NHTSA awards Virginia Tech Transportation Institute $1M for V2V framework project

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The Virginia Tech institute has been building connected-vehicle technology since 2001. NHTSA announced its intention to pursue a mandate of this technology in light vehicles in an effort to improve highway safety, prevent crashes, and help alleviate congestion, among other potential benefits.

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Elon Musk reconsiders phone project after Apple Intelligence OpenAI integration

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In comments posted on X, Musk noted that if Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then the tech giant’s devices would be banned at his companies. To state that Musk was not happy with Apple’s integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT on some of its devices would be an understatement. That is an unacceptable security violation,” Musk wrote.

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What’s the Tech Background of an Autonomous-Vehicle Engineer?

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Elshenawy: Many of our AI engineers come from academia, consumer tech, and finance. Because we are cloud native, we are able to leverage a lot of the existing technology that is provided by cloud providers, such as Google Cloud Platform and Azure ; we don’t need to reinvent that. Where do these engineers generally come from?

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Aalyria’s Lasers and Routers Could Close the Digital Divide

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Aalyria, a recent spinout from Google , is trying to build on other companies’ near successes. Aalyria is combining that tech with free-space lasers originally developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to connect the hard-to-connect. How are you currently improving or refining these two key technologies?

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