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QOTD: Do You Have an Accident-Prone Road in Your Neighborhood?

The Truth About Cars

Matt referenced the infamous 11-foot-8 bridge, and I gotta tell you, one of the highlights of my travel life has been seeing that underpass in person when I was in Durham on a press launch. That got me wondering -- do you have a trouble spot near you?

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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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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

Secret Service claims to be able to identify an unknown person in a voice-only lineup, comparing a recording of an unknown voice with a recording of a known speaker, as a reference. As such, there are many reasons to be concerned about its use in the criminal legal system. A 2020 U.S. Government Accountability Office report says that the U.S.

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Honda announces second plug-in vehicle testing program; Japan joins US, China may follow

Green Car Congress

announced its second Electric Vehicle Testing Program, this one with Saitama Prefecture for its next-generation personal mobility products, including electric vehicles (EVs); plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs); electric scooters; and electric carts. Study the low noise impact of electric vehicles in residential neighborhoods.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. 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. MB of data.

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How To Choose the Right EV Charging Equipment for Your Dealership

Blink Charging

Using your own personalized dashboard in the Blink Network , you can also control your Level 2 chargers to take advantage of off-peak charging during evenings, weekends and overnight. Your business will be added to the Blink Network and popular map services like Google, helping your customers find EV charging stations nearby.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]).

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