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MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future suggests widespread autonomous driving at least a decade away

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Building on the Task Force’s interim 2019 report, “Work of the Future: Shaping Technologies and Institutions,” MIT Task Force members are providing analysis on topics including manufacturing, health care, tax reform, skills/training, and emerging technologies such as collaborative robotics and additive manufacturing.

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J.D. Power study: consumers possess inaccurate knowledge of fully automated self-driving vehicles

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While the automotive industry continues to move toward fully automated, self-driving vehicles, the pace is not being matched by educational efforts that will help bring buyers into the modern mobility movement. Power 2021 Mobility Confidence Index (MCI) Study, consumers possess inaccurate knowledge of fully automated self-driving vehicles.

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DSM wins SPE Automotive Innovation Award for bio-based EcoPaXX integrated crankshaft cover for Volkswagen Group diesels

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A lightweight multi-functional crankshaft cover in Royal DSM’s EcoPaXX high-performance polyamide 410 was top in the Powertrain category at the Society of Plastics Engineers Automotive Division Innovation Awards Competition and Gala in Detroit.

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SAE taskforce J2954 on wireless charging and positioning standards looking to have final draft of guideline this year; significant industry involvement

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Wireless Charging enables the customer the ability to have “transparent” recharging of plug-in electric vehicle—EV, combustion engine (IC) PHEV, fuel cell (FC) PHEV—through a seamless connection to the EVSE charger and automated charging process. —Jesse Schneider, Chair SAE J2954.

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Why Countries Like India Desperately Need EV Battery Standardization

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It may also pave the door for greater automation in the waste disposal process. Concerning the safety of batteries for electric cars, the BIS is in the process of publishing two further standards on batteries for various passenger and goods-carrying vehicles (L, M, and N categories). Standardization helps the environment.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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It’s a mind-numbing 44 page process and you just go, “You’ve got to be friggin killing me” Luckily I”m an Oracle database programmer so I’ve automated all of it. Automating it is part of my competitive advantage. At some point in the adoption cycle you have five or six distinct categories. You have different messaging.

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