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Aclima partnering with Google to map outdoor air quality with Street View vehicles

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a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. Today we’re announcing the success of our integration test with Google, which lays the foundation for generating high resolution maps of air quality in cities.

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Autonomous electric car technology: Why should a self-driving vehicle be all-electric?

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Environmental pollution by conventional fossil fuel vehicles makes electric vehicles popular. Alternative fuels used in vehicles are also not 100% pollution-free. Autonomous driving of a vehicle can be pollution-free and “green” if the vehicle is a battery electric vehicle. Proximity sensors, cameras, etc.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? Or 60,000 tokens.

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Volkswagen Group in strategic collaboration with self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation; Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) fleets

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The Volkswagen Group and self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation, founded by technology veterans from Google, Tesla and Uber, announced a strategic collaboration ahead of the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Self-driving technology is set to become the centerpiece of future personal mobility.

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GM OnStar and RelayRides introduce peer-to-peer car sharing for GM vehicles

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RelayRides is backed by more than $13 million in venture capital funding from investors including Google Ventures and GM Ventures. Studies show that each shared car results in up to 13 fewer cars on the road, leading to less-congested roads and less pollution. Challenges with access-based consumption.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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The award is sponsored by Google. Her dissertation focused on developing methods to determine a baseline for concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere based on historical spatial-temporal measurements. They reinforced the perception that Dresselhaus was a truly amazing person as well as a trailblazer.” She earned her Ph.D.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

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It was always a personal passion, and I was already working on green transportation, so that was a natural intersection. All of those things, they actually contribute more [air pollution] than CO 2 alone. And that’s why, by the way, aviation is a much better use case for hydrogen than ground mobility, especially personal vehicles.