Energy & Green Tech
Until the 1960s, railways dominated freight across every distance bar the shortest. Much freight went by sea, and some by truck.
Dec 19, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
America's highways and byways would be a wild west if we didn't have automotive standards. So, give some serious respect, please, to these massive documents filled with painstaking technical specifications. After all, they ...
Dec 18, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Every year, airplanes crisscrossing U.S. skies burn 23 billion gallons of fuel, leaving contrails and 8% of the nation's transportation-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in their wake. A recent study published in Proceedings ...
Dec 15, 2023
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Business
Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles, are revolutionizing how we move from one place to another. They're also raising major safety and responsibility issues.
Dec 14, 2023
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Automotive
Tesla has recalled 2 million US vehicles over concerns about its autopilot function. Autopilot is meant to help with maneuvers such as steering and acceleration, but still needs input from the driver. It comes just a few ...
Dec 14, 2023
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Business
As early as 2025, an average midsize battery-electric vehicle will be cheaper than a comparable combustion engine vehicle. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich. The researchers ...
Dec 13, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Google has launched Gemini, a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that can seemingly understand and talk intelligently about almost any kind of prompt—pictures, text, speech, music, computer code and much more.
Dec 12, 2023
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Automotive
Researchers have developed an adaptable algorithm that could improve road safety by predicting when drivers are able to safely interact with in-vehicle systems or receive messages, such as traffic alerts, incoming calls or ...
Dec 7, 2023
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Automotive
Volkswagen said Wednesday it would cut its workforce over the coming years as the German auto giant seeks to boost its profitability and reboot a faltering shift to electric cars.
Dec 6, 2023
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Automotive
California regulators are alleging a San Francisco robotaxi service owned by General Motors covered up the severity of an accident involving one of its driverless cars, raising the specter they may add a fine to the recent ...
Dec 5, 2023
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An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods. However, the term automobile is far from precise, because there are many types of vehicles that do similar tasks.
As of 2002, there were 590 million passenger cars worldwide (roughly one car per eleven people). Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The numbers are increasing rapidly, especially in China and India.
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