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Volvo Car Corporation intends to lead in field of autonomous driving technology; targeting the next-generation of consumers

Green Car Congress

Autonomous driving—the self-driving car—gives the human driver the ability safely to do something else besides drive, such as sending text messages or reading a book while the car drives itself. But being in a car that drives by itself while the driver reads a book is still quite a revolutionary thought for many people.

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OLA Electric Scooter Ownership Blog - Dark Knight

Plug In India

If your charging infra is from solar & battery recycling is sorted, then it’s the ideal for environment. Solar at home,EV for commute & rain water harvesting at home that’s the best we can contribute to cleaner environment. May be a big step or riding a bike or (eBike) for local daily usage. 4w of-course.

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Legacy Automakers and the Tesla EV Narrative

EV Adoption

” The VW staff person kind of mumbled and explained that yes, “Teslas have more range.” That means they probably reached around 750 households in a controlled environment in just one city over a few days. The event was not a stellar customer or experiential experience, and rated only a C- level of effort in my book.

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The Rise of Groupware

Cars That Think

But they are the outgrowth of years of hard work done before the Internet became a thing, when there was a thorny problem: How could people collaborate effectively when everyone’s using a stand-alone personal computer? The new personal-computing technologies clearly needed to do more to foster collaboration.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

Cars That Think

But several people wanted to buy us, and one, Schneider Electric, was relentless. Many times in academic research, it is easy to get lost in details, in minor things that seem impressive to the person doing the research,” Lonappan says. 1969, and M.S., 1972, University of California, Los Angeles, both in electrical engineering; Ph.D.,

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

Networks that link personal computers in offices. The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.”

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