Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
The Virginia Tech institute has been building connected-vehicle technology since 2001. The institute, in coordination with the Virginia Department of Transportation, has a $14-million connected-vehicle test bed along Interstates 66 and 495 near Fairfax, Va., Connected vehicles Safety V2X Vehicle Systems'
Green Car Congress
JULY 21, 2014
The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute has been awarded two federal contracts worth a combined potential $55 million to further study safety efforts for commercial truck drivers and break new ground in the burgeoning field of automated vehicles. These studies by Blanco were carried out on the Virginia Smart Road, in Blacksburg.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 9, 2016
A new report, “ Automated Vehicle Crash Rate Comparison Using Naturalistic Data ,” performed by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and commissioned by Google, shows that the crash rates for self-driving cars are lower than the national crash rate of conventional cars. Driving safety on public roads was examined in three ways.
The Truth About Cars
DECEMBER 14, 2023
I don't even know, without Googling, where the nearest junkyard is. Check out this West Virginia-based car here. Contrary to what some of you snarky commenters believe, I do not prowl junkyards for UCOTD. That's Murilee's department. Instead I scour our forums. Except it runs. Runs but needs work.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 23, 2012
OnStar and Google are working together to demonstrate a new OnStar service for managing the charging of Chevrolet Volts with renewable energy, using the 17 Chevrolet Volts in Google’s “Gfleet” based at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Concept of the service and mobile app for renewable charging. Click to enlarge.
Cars That Think
JUNE 6, 2022
Even as Google and Meta set their sights on building entirely new lines that will drastically boost the continent’s capacity, those lines hug well-trodden, predictable routes. There is one effort that hopes to do what Google and Meta won’t—SAEx, or the Southern Oceans Network. But it’s been slow to come.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Both parents were fugitives, having finally escaped enslavement in Virginia after several unsuccessful attempts. Before Latimer could be returned to Virginia to the control of his former enslaver, a league of abolitionists including Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison rallied around him, making him a cause célèbre.
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