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Mercedes Charts Electric Course for Vans, Bringing Luxocruisers Stateside

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Mercedes-Benz refers to them as “privately positioned midsize luxury vans”, referring not to the position of ones privates whilst driving the things but rather the intent of these vans to serve as luxury transportation for humans. First, the people carriers. Specifics on the VAN.EA

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Cornell team develops new inexpensive stereo-camera method to detect objects for self-driving cars; pseudo-LiDAR

Green Car Congress

They refer to this representation as pseudo-LiDAR, and process it exactly like LiDAR—any LiDAR-based 3D objection algorithms thus can be applied. Proposed two-step pipeline for image-based 3D object detection. Wang et al. The common belief is that you couldn’t make self-driving cars without LiDARs.

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SpaceX schedules first West Coast Starlink launch after a quiet July

Teslarati

Drone ship Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) wrapped up an 8000 kilometer (~5000 mi) journey from its Florida home to California’s Port of Long Beach, while brand new drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG) arrived at Port Canaveral to take OCISLY’s place after months of assembly.

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Video Friday: DALL-E 2

Cars That Think

ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia IEEE ARSO 2022 : 28–30 May 2022, Long Beach ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, the Netherlands RoboCup 2022 : 11–17 July 2022, Bangkok, Thailand IEEE CASE 2022 : 20–24 August 2022, Mexico City, Mexico CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Açores, Portugal. It's a real skill that works!

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Occidental Petroleum Projects California Shale Development May Become Its Largest Business Unit Within 10 Years

Green Car Congress

Shale production here refers to oil and gas production via drilling from shale source rocks; not the mining of organic shale deposits and subsequent production of hydrocarbon liquids by heating the kerogen found in those deposits—i.e.

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Fallbrook Introduces Variable Accessory Drive Applications for NuVinci CVP

Green Car Congress

the developer of the NuVinci continuously variable planetary (CVP) transmission ( earlier post ), introduced a new suite of automotive- and truck-related applications for the NuVinci CVP, referred to as continuously variable accessory drives (CVADs), at the Clean Heavy Duty Conference and Expo in Long Beach, Calif.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

If you don’t build something like that, people can’t refer to it. They’ve also got a site at the Port of Long Beach and a couple others in the LA area. Electric Island did what we hoped it would do, which was to kick off a movement towards knowing what was possible and what needed to be done.

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