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Bosch launches eScooter sharing service under new Coup brand

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Two hundred connected and all-electric scooters produced by Gogoro, a leading eScooter brand, will be available for the launch in Berlin. The company is already working on solutions for connected parking management, cloud-based fleet management, and app-based mobility assistants that support the multimodal use of different types of transport.

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BMW unveils the production i3 in New York, London and Beijing; efficiency, dynamics and a supporting ecosystem of services

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To ensure maximum safety in a crash scenario, the high-voltage battery is disconnected from the high-voltage system and the connected components discharged when the passenger restraint systems are triggered. This includes BMW Connected Drive and the 360° ELECTRIC services, some of which are options. kilograms (3.3

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

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Listening to a book on tape rated mild distraction at 1.7. High distraction systems were the Ford Taurus with Sync MyFord Touch (3.1); Chevy Malibu with MyLink (3.4); Volkswagen Passat with Car-Net (3.5); Nissan Altima with Nissan Connect (3.7); Chrysler 200c with Uconnect (3.8); and Hyundai Sonata with Blue Link (3.8). Methodology.

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AI Godmother Fei-Fei Li Has a Vision for Computer Vision

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And I was also inspired by Judea Pearls ladder of causality [in his 2020 book The Book of Why ]. If we are serious about cracking the problem of vision and also connecting it to doing, theres an extremely simple, laid-out-in-the-daylight fact: The world is 3D. We are becoming more and more capable with the technology.

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Read Your Way Through New Orleans

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Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring the globe through books. The city is an eclectic mix of Caribbean, French, Spanish and Native American cultures, and, depending on which neighborhood you encounter, you may feel a sense of disorientation. What books or authors should I bring along with me? where he was raised.

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NYU Researchers Pave the Way for Future Shared Mobility

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Acknowledging the rapid growth of e-scooter adoption, the NYU researchers looked specifically at the role that these vehicles play for the first and last mile in connecting travelers to public transit. But nowadays, when you book a trip, that single trip might be operated by three different airlines.

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Why the Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System

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It starts by querying peers: other computers in the user’s vicinity, others in the same house or office, others in the same neighborhood, others in the same city—expanding progressively outward to globally distant locations, if need be, until the system finds a copy of what you’re looking for. Domain Name System (DNS) server.

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