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Tesla’s Safety Score system could result in unsafe driving: Consumer Reports

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While the gamification of safe driving behavior could work, the magazine argued that Tesla’s Safety Scores could also incentivize drivers to cheat the system to gain a high rating. Fisher, however, noted that gamification also has a “dark side,” which was observed by researchers at Ohio State University.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Among the contests was “a huge late winter race in Phoenix with a variety of events and classes, including Formula Lightning ,” for which he was an advisor to a team from Ohio State. Last summer, under the leadership of Carlos Ruiz de Quevedo, the chapter took part in a street fair in Hendersonville.

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CAR report quantifies automotive’s position as a leading high-tech industry

Green Car Congress

Source: Booz & Company “Global Innovation”; Battelle R&D Magazine; Center for Automotive Research 2012. These companies include both automakers and Tier 1 parts suppliers. Percentage of Global R&D Spending by Industry, 2013. Click to enlarge.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

Cars That Think

He left in 1973 to serve as chief scientist of the defense systems group at TRW (now part of Northrop Grumman ), an automotive and aerospace company, in Euclid, Ohio. From 1993 to 1995 he was chief scientist at Altera (now part of Intel ), a semiconductor manufacturing company in Los Gatos. He founded Tredennick Inc.,

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Irradiating the Mail: The Anthrax Attacks of 2001

Cars That Think

now part of L3Harris Technologies), to irradiate the lot, along with all letters, large envelopes, newsletters, and magazines destined for congressional and government offices in the Washington, D.C., Titan had a facility in Lima, Ohio, with a single accelerator operating at 18 kW at 10 MeV. ZIP codes 20200 to 20599.

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