'Game changer' e-moped batteries spread from Taiwan across Asia
Every day, Aiden Lee joins the hundreds of thousands of people getting around Taipei on two wheels.
Jan 19, 2022
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Immune to hacks: Inoculating deep neural networks to thwart attacks
If a sticker on a banana can make it show up as a toaster, how might strategic vandalism warp how an autonomous vehicle perceives a stop sign? Now, an immune-inspired defense system for neural networks can ward off such attacks, ...
Mar 24, 2022
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New AI enables autonomous vehicles to adapt to challenging weather conditions
Researchers at Oxford University's Department of Computer Science, in collaboration with colleagues from Bogazici University, Turkey, have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI) system to enable autonomous vehicles ...
Sep 8, 2022
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What causes lithium-ion battery fires? Why are they so intense? And how should they be fought? An expert explains
Picture this: you're cruising down the Great Ocean Road in your brand new electric vehicle (EV), the ocean to your left and the wind in your hair. But what if I told you this idyllic drive could turn into a nightmare, with ...
Sep 28, 2023
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S. Korea's self-driving upstarts take on tech giants
In a workshop that blends a corporate office with a tool-packed garage, around 20 South Koreans are looking to take on the multi-billion-dollar giants of Uber, Tesla and Google parent Alphabet with a self-driving car of their ...
Jun 3, 2020
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Vietnam's VinFast struggles to sell electric cars at home
Vietnam's VinFast has grand ambitions of selling its electric vehicles in the United States and Europe to compete with the likes of Elon Musk's Tesla, but it is struggling to find buyers for its cars at home.
Oct 18, 2023
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Taking a city's pulse with movable sensors
Suppose you have 10 taxis in Manhattan. What portion of the borough's streets do they cover in a typical day?
Jun 12, 2019
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Hyundai to build $5.5 bn electric vehicle plant in US
South Korean automaker Hyundai will build a $5.5 billion electric vehicle and battery plant in the southern US state of Georgia, its governor announced Friday, as President Joe Biden pursued his trip to Seoul.
May 21, 2022
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Seatbelt-integrated biosensor could reliably track the alertness and stress of pilots and drivers
Over the past decades, electronics and biomedical engineers have developed increasingly sophisticated biosensors, devices that can pick up biological signals from human users. These sensors, which are generally embedded in ...
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More efficient lidar sensing for self-driving cars
If you see a self-driving car out in the wild, you might notice a giant spinning cylinder on top of its roof. That's a lidar sensor, and it works by sending out pulses of infrared light and measuring the time it takes for ...
May 25, 2021
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