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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

Cars That Think

The idea for Sher-DeCusatis’s second comic, she says, came from a personal experience she had while volunteering for IEEE. At the end of the lesson, students had to build a paper plane and throw it at a target. The two ask an online AI circuit-design program for directions on how to repair the lights’ outdated circuitry. “I

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

Cars That Think

One company that’s hoping to reduce our battery anxiety is Exeger , which wants to enable self-charging devices that convert ambient light into energy on the go. So our solar cell can convert any light energy to electrical energy. And now, we use the electrons to light the lamp or a motor or whatever we do with it.

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

Green Car Congress

Smart Mobility builds upon Ford’s Blueprint for Mobility ( earlier post ). Ford engineers are working with HP to track the driving habits of 100 vehicles used nationwide by HP employees for work and personal commuting. This experiment studies a driver’s behavior over time in order to build a more personalized mobility profile.

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7 Tips for Enforcing Safe Driving with Your Employees

Clean Fleet Report

If your company has company cars or requires its employees to do some driving for the company with their personal vehicles, then it is absolutely crucial that your organization has a strong emphasis on safety. Things that no company or person wants to go through. Build a culture where safe driving is the norm.

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

Most of the members were much more interested in building one,” Garver said, explaining that some of the early members worked as engineers for McDonnell Douglas and NASA. I had to build a controller from a kit,” continued Garver, who was a member of the Electric Auto Association at that time. “It

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Mercedes-Benz S-Class INTELLIGENT DRIVE drives autonomously over 100km interurban and urban route with near-production technology

Green Car Congress

The self-driving S-Class had to deal autonomously with a number of highly complex situations such as traffic lights, roundabouts, pedestrians, cyclists and trams. Traffic lights are monitored by a color camera behind the windscreen with a 90-degree opening angle. Initial testing. Autonomous turning. Click to enlarge.

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smart, MINI Unveiling Electric Scooter Concepts at Paris Show; Central Role for Smartphones

Green Car Congress

The new, further developed smart drive kit app allows the rider to use online services when making stops on the road. The design of all the control elements for lights, direction indicators and other driving functions corresponds to the buttons on the multifunction steering wheel of MINI cars.

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