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Electrify America, Sacramento announce Green City investments: ZEV car-sharing, ZEV bus and shuttle routes, EV charging systems

Green Car Congress

This service allows users to pick up and drop off a vehicle at any legal public parking spot, including metered locations, within a 13 sq. More than 90 percent of the micro-shuttle’s service territory is in a low-income or disadvantaged Sacramento neighborhood. mile “Home Zone.” EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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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. Tan had filed a patent application for his invention a month before the 2000 CeBIT tech fair, but a pending patent did little to stop copycats. This wasn’t a rare job at the time.

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

Revenge of the Electric Car

million gallons of gas consumed by those white little trucks trolling your neighborhood. The car will go 30 miles on batteries before the gas engine kicks in and be street-legal. Tags: Bright Automotive EV News Production News battery tech plug-ins. If those trucks are put into use 300 working days a year, that’s 87.5

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Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

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She reminds engineers that default settings are not neutral, that convenient datasets may be rife with ethical and legal problems , and that benchmarks aren’t always assessing the right things. What can engineers do if they’re concerned about algorithmic bias and other issues regarding AI ethics, but they work for a typical big tech company?