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Predicting people's driving personalities

Self-driving cars are coming. But for all their fancy sensors and intricate data-crunching abilities, even the most cutting-edge cars lack something that (almost) every 16-year-old with a learner's permit has: social awareness.

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How the road network determines traffic capacity

ETH researchers have shown that we can use the structure of urban road networks to predict their traffic capacity. This information enables urban and transportation planners to quantify how changes will influence traffic ...

15 hours ago

Official: Safety lacking before Uber self-driving car crash

The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board says Uber had an ineffective safety culture when one of its autonomous test vehicles ran down and killed a pedestrian last year in Tempe, Arizona.

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Travelers split on whether they would take trips in autonomous vehicles, study finds

Autonomous vehicles are becoming more of a reality as technology improves, but people are far from settled in accepting a future with driverless cars. A University of Kansas researcher has co-written a study that found when ...

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Researchers design new hybrid engines that are more efficient and less contaminating

A team of the CMT-Thermal Engines Institute of the UPV University suggests a new configuration that unites all the benefits of hybrid motors with dual-fuel combustion technology.

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European car sales accelerate to decade-high speed in October

European car sales hit their highest October level in a decade, an industry body said Tuesday, as the sector recovers from a stall last year over tighter pollution regulations.

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Energy & Green Tech

Ford Mustang SUV starts a blitz of new electric vehicles

Ford is unveiling its first all-electric SUV, marking the start of an avalanche of battery-powered vehicles coming from mainstream and luxury automakers during the next two years that industry analysts say will boost electric ...

Nov 18, 2019

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Automotive news

Predicting people's driving personalities

How the road network determines traffic capacity

Official: Safety lacking before Uber self-driving car crash

Travelers split on whether they would take trips in autonomous vehicles, study finds

Researchers design new hybrid engines that are more efficient and less contaminating

European car sales accelerate to decade-high speed in October

Ford Mustang SUV starts a blitz of new electric vehicles

Flexible organic electrodes built using water-processed silver nanowires

Beyond Moore's Law: Taking transistor arrays into the third dimension

Algorithm may improve brain-controlled prostheses and exoskeletons

Trash talk hurts, even when it comes from a robot

Amazon adds free music for anyone, with ads

A sustainable answer to industrial pollution? That's 'bananas!'

How traditional Indian building techniques can make modern cities more climate-friendly

WhatsApp users advised to update for protection

How much energy do we really need?

An imitation learning approach to train robots without the need for real human demonstrations

Google's new system captures character lighting for virtually any environment

An artificial intelligence algorithm can learn the laws of quantum mechanics

New continuum robot design achieves motion resolutions of 1 micron or less

AI's ethics problem: Abstractions everywhere but where are the rules?

Google enters battle for cloud gaming market

A hands-on look at Google's Stadia cloud game service

Marine bioplastic made with fish waste, red algae wins prize

Hyundai technology will bring in-car quietness to the next level

A method for self-supervised robotic learning that entails setting feasible goals

How hackers could use Wi-Fi to track you inside your home

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