Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2012
Two professors from MIT and UC Davis have released a paper challenging the recent claims by the Renewable Fuel Association (RFA) and US Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack that ethanol production decreased gasoline prices by $0.89 Christopher Knittel at MIT and Assoc. and statistically insignificant. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
MAY 23, 2018
Most existing lane-change algorithms for autonomous cars have one of two drawbacks: Either they rely on detailed statistical models of the driving environment, which are difficult to assemble and too complex to analyze on the fly; or they’re so simple that they can lead to impractically conservative decisions, such as never changing lanes at all.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
MIT researchers have built a model to simulate long-range atmospheric transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). GEOS-Chem captures observed seasonal trends with no statistically significant difference between simulated and measured mean annual concentrations.
Teslarati
DECEMBER 20, 2022
The findings of the study debunk the results of Elon Musk’s Twitter poll on whether or not he should step down as CEO, and provide a representative, statistically-relevant perspective of what Twitter users and Americans think of his leadership. The survey was conducted among 1,028 adults and 429 Twitter users, HarrisX said.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 29, 2009
the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. In perhaps the most sobering statistic shared at the 2009 SAE conference, Prof Thrun’s investigations have led him to believe that 1-1.2 Earlier post.)]. 27.5 / 22.2. Heywood, J.,
Green Car Congress
MAY 15, 2018
As the Trump administration weighs how to revise fuel economy standards, a new study by research fellows of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) finds that attribute-based regulations—such as the footprint-based rules in the US—are less effective and more costly than a flat standard with credit trading.
Cars That Think
JUNE 4, 2022
The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. Networking: The Story of Ethernet By today’s standards the Alto was not a particularly powerful computer. A lot of the ideas in Ada [the standard programming language of the U.S.
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