Cars That Think

AUGUST 12, 2024

Putting a data center right next to a power plant so that it can draw electricity from it directly, rather than from the grid, is becoming more common as data centers seek out cheap, steady, carbon-free power. Whether you’re talking about Google or Apple or Microsoft or any of those companies, they tend to have corporate sustainability goals.

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Cars That Think

JULY 26, 2022

Astonishingly mobile, amazingly efficient, super robust, and in some cases, literally dirt cheap. I’ll let you Google whip scorpion on your own because they kind of freak me out, but here’s a picture of a patu digua, with a body measuring about a quarter of a millimeter: Squee! You know what’s even easier than that, though?

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Although it looks cheap, the feel of the door handle is more premium than you might expect. Outside the LE there’s a constant reminder of base trim via some very cheap-looking plastic wheel covers. Worth reporting: Android Auto sometimes refused to connect to a phone (Google Pixel 6a). Not a big negative, but worth a mention.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Interestingly, integrated Google Maps for navigation realized this and told me when I would need to charge to reach my destination—despite the range meter saying I’d make it. The panel gaps were tight, the doors closed with a solid thunk, and everything I touched, clicked, twisted, or grabbed didn’t wiggle, creak, or feel cheap.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. A wave of green globalization allows all countries to share in the benefits of decarbonization. The result is a win–win for climate and security. Geopolitical friction is low.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Projection of the map data; on the right side the lanes are mapped onto Google Earth. The VMP is a VLIW SIMD processor, with cheap and flexible memory access, provides hardware support for operations common to computer vision applications and is well-suited to multi-core scenarios. The car is driving based on the map alone.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2015

It may come as a surprise for you, but I highly welcome the interest of Apple, Google and others in the automobile. Oil will not be as cheap as it is at the moment for ever. He went on to say that the car manufacturer is positioning itself at the forefront of automotive change with its forward-looking “Future Tracks” program.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2021

Running a startup isn't cheap. BoxBlox's customers include Boeing , Google , and Tesla as well as NASA and NOAA. Many founders bootstrap their company to survive. IEEE is helping members who are entrepreneurs save money through its new Powered by IEEE program.

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Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2023

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. The example I used at the time was, I think it was a Google program labeling an image of people playing Frisbee in the park. More context.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. The thumb drive was all that—and more. Somewhat less credibly, inventors in Malaysia and China have also claimed to be the first to come up with the thumb drive.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 27, 2013

The Google example of an expensive networked, free Level 2 charger in every employee’s slot is unrealistic, unaffordable and unnecessary in the real world. Many workplaces could become EV friendly on the cheap, repurposing existing 120V outlets in parking areas and expressly allowing PEV charging. It’s also grid-friendly.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

So long as you have a Google account and a smartphone (yes, including an iPhone), setup takes under a minute. Google Maps routing with built-in charging planning works well, and I love that my recently viewed POIs across all my devices show up in the car’s map search — it feels like the future! It is just so easy.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. Android running the dashboard means Google Assistant, Google Maps, Google Play Store, and more, are instantly available and work the way you already use them. Until now, it’s had no plug-in option.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Even a policy with cheap rates can provide some coverage in case of an emergency. By doing all this ahead of time and double-checking your data with Google Maps or another navigation app, you can rest assured knowing that you won’t enter into an unknown situation without adequate preparation. Keep your EV Battery Charged.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 11, 2011

And one on Google's map. And probably not cheap. Nor on The EV Project/Ecotality's m ap. I did find one of the three on recargo.com , one of a number of outfits aggregating charge station locations. Good for them. The units I found quite accidentally are Free Juice Bar dual-connector units.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 9, 2011

For years now I’ve been wanting to have a shredder truck come to my house so I could get rid of all but the last 7 years worth of records, but I’ve been too cheap to actually make the call and dig into my wallet to pay for the truck to show up at my door and securely shred then recycle all that shredded paper.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 31, 2024

And yes, I know about degloving accidents (please don’t google that). You’d never know all of these armor pads are hidden in this shirt, not to mention the abrasion-resist aramid fibers Of course this stuff doesn’t come cheap, and compared to a distressed denim jacket from Target, the prices are significant.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 9, 2011

For years now I’ve been wanting to have a shredder truck come to my house so I could get rid of all but the last 7 years worth of records, but I’ve been too cheap to actually make the call and dig into my wallet to pay for the truck to show up at my door and securely shred then recycle all that shredded paper.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2022

What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! Roboticist, Google Brain. Brandon Rohrer — Machine Learning Engineer, LinkedIn Siddhartha Srinivasa — Director of Robotics and AI, Amazon Mikell Taylor — Principal Technical Program Manager, Amazon Robotics Cynthia Yeung — Founding Board Member, Women in Robotics.

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Cars That Think

JULY 24, 2024

Google Docs , Microsoft Teams , Slack , Salesforce , and so on, are such a big part of many people’s daily lives that they hardly notice them. Notes wasn’t cheap InfoWorld lists the price circa 1990 as US $62,000), and it was complicated to manage. These days, computer users take collaboration software for granted. A 1996 Inc.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C., Meanwhile, GM is hedging its bets by continuing to invest in the dream of cheap, cellulosic ethanol and the hallucinogenic pipe dream of hydrogen fuel cell SUVs. Once again, a conference on plug-in cars.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

But the cheap computers that supplanted expert systems turned out to be a boon for the connectionists, who suddenly had access to enough computer power to run neural networks with many layers of artificial neurons. Symbolists such as Herbert Simon [middle] and Allen Newell [bottom] wanted to teach AI rules about the world.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Part of the pitch for a private digital currency could be offering people in these communities access to cheap, secure financial services. Google also has a huge base of both consumer and business users. Lacking other options, they may pay exorbitant interest rates on payday loans. Apple is another obvious example.

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EV Central

JANUARY 6, 2024

None of which will be cheap, the Polestar 3 is priced from $132,900 before on-roads. An all-wheel drive model with 380kW and 910Nm promises about 600km of range and the car will also get the Android Automotive operating system that goes beyond infotainment to let Google control a whole lot more. Polestar 4 Polestar 4.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Powered by Google’s Android Automotive operating system, its responsiveness is superior to just about anything else on the market today. While the exterior is attractive, the interior fit-out is even more pleasing. The clean and simple themes are easy on the eye, while the infotainment tech is very easy to use.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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. Why would I bother to do that, you ask? I can just send the whole picture to the cloud and keep it forever. That, however, isn't really true.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Even though Google , Meta , and Microsoft have touted goals to be carbon neutral or negative by 2030, and Amazon by 2040, the industry is now moving in the wrong direction. Fly ash—a messy, toxic by-product of coal-fired power plants—is cheap and still widely available, even as coal power dwindles in many regions.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Google Develops Quantum-Safe Security Keys GK Images/Alamy The looming advent of quantum computing has had cybersecurity researchers hunting for ways to make cryptographic systems that can withstand the new capabilities of such computers. A time interface that can naturally reverse signals would be much faster and less complex.

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Plug In India

JUNE 11, 2021

Ather is the only scooter which has a touchscreen display with google maps integration. Many scooter companies provide a cheap GPS tracker and call themselves a connected scooter. Ather is one among 2 companies in this list that is offering electric scooters with mid drive motors with belt based transmission.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

If Dan Kois wants us to live in a world where we all drive cheap, underpowered cars that are limited to 85 mph, he has that right. Never mind that perhaps some of the accidents linked were perhaps the same ones being covered by multiple news outlets. Expensive luxury/performance cars? The lack of strict speed governors in modern automobiles?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

In general, the sponsor’s goal is to use as much cheap debt financing and as little equity as possible to complete the deal. Reicher is the Director Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google and a was a member of the Presidential Transition Team. The sponsor wants to get returns from 10-20% for his or her investment.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. funded research project published the results of using Google search data to predict international migration. For example, one E.U.-funded Another set of E.U.-funded

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Video CTIA 2009 Preview Digital Media YouTubes legal end-run irks Korean officials Google has provoked the wrath of government officials through its resistance to a law prohibiting anonymous YouTube uploads and comments. Video Web 2.0

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Texas is top of The Metals Company's list for the processing plant given the state's ports and access to cheap renewables. "We BMW , Google , Samsung , and Volvo have all said they will not buy metals mined from such sources until the environmental impacts are better understood.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

They’re not going to be cheap. There’s built-in Google and wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, while the dashboard and centre console are minimalism personified. The SUV’s reveal follows Volvo Car Australia’s announcement last week saying the brand will sell only fully electric cars here from 2026.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. In the future, utilities will pay you to plug-in your vehicle. Carlos 12:43 AM walt the memecaster said.

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