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Mercedes Design Boss Comes Out Against Screens, Says They’re ‘Not Luxury’

The Truth About Cars

Mercedes-Benz design chief Gorden Wagener has confessed that massive screens arent much of a luxury now that practically every vehicle offers them as standard equipment. The design chief also went into discussing how the consumer perception of EVs has been the real problem in his purview. From the hardware side it's very good.

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QA With Luca Guala of Systemica on Masdars Personal Rapid Transit System

Green Car Congress

Green Car Congress had an opportunity to follow up with Luca Guala of Systematica to learn more about the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system being applied in Masdar. Systematica, a design and engineering firm based in Italy with clients throughout the world, combines a traditional engineering company with an urban planning studio.

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This cheap Chinese electric truck has a face only a mother could love

Electrek

A big part of the fun of finding vehicles for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column comes from all of the interesting fascia designs. These uniquely Chinese vehicles often have interesting faces , giving each vehicle a unique personality.

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Cheap mini e-truck? Flying electric boats? Top 5 wildest non-car EVs I tested this year

Electrek

One of my favorite things about the electric vehicle industry is just how much diversity there is in the designs and types of EVs hitting the market. Here are the top five wildest and most awesome personal electric vehicles I tested in 2022. The post Cheap mini e-truck? Flying electric boats?

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Sheffield engineers use 3D printing for a 1.5m-wide UAV prototype

Green Car Congress

wide prototype unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for a research project looking at 3D printing of complex designs. The engineers said the polymer craft could form the basis of cheap and potentially disposable UAVs that could be built and deployed in remote situations potentially within as little as 24 hours.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

Cars That Think

The motor control module contained a linear control IC, an NPN motor drive transistor, and a discrete PNP dynamic braking transistor, and gave the designers little trouble. Polaroid also asked Fairchild, which it viewed as the country’s leader in IC technology, to tackle a design that would push the state of the art.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. Cookies are designed to taste delicious, so why measure quality based on something completely unrelated to taste? Why would I bother to do that, you ask?

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