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Driving Dystopia: Companies Are Getting Serious About Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Connectivity

The Truth About Cars

Businesses are eager to get access to that grant money and net some juicy government contracts once their solutions for safer streets are selected. From Automotive News : For the first time, there is serious momentum for a national deployment of vehicle-to-infrastructure technology as government grants and waivers pick up speed.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

Cars That Think

How the computer “icon” got its name Sketchpad had on-screen graphic objects that represented constraints (for example, a rule that lines be the same length), and the Flex machine built in 1967 at the University of Utah by students Alan Kay and Ed Cheadle had squares that represented programs and data (like today’s computer “folders”).

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