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Enterprise, Toyota and Yahoo! adding Prius plug-in hybrid demo unit to WeCar program

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WeCar provides vehicles for personal use during the work day to more than 50 Enterprise Rideshare participants on Yahoo!’s Toyota is delivering more than 160 Prius PHV vehicles across the United States as part of a demonstration program. s Sunnyvale and Santa Clara campuses.

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Nissan’s Intelligent Mobility vision builds on electrification, autonomous drive and vehicle intelligence

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Nissan will launch multiple vehicles with autonomous drive technology in the next four years in Europe, the United States, Japan and China. An on-road demo event in Europe in 2016, will showcase the maturity of Nissan’s autonomous drive technology. Nissan Intelligent Integration.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

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The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat. Simply put, if a person is intentionally putting themselves in danger by participating in illegal driving behaviors, no driver-monitoring system would be enough.

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Chevrolet to produce Spark battery electric vehicle for US and global markets starting in 2013 with A123 Systems pack; EN-V gets a Chevrolet badge

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Our global demo fleets continue to provide insight into the needs of electric vehicle customers living in urban environments. It will also retain its battery electric propulsion, connectivity and autonomous driving capabilities. In April, GM and the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Investment and Development Co.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Still, its first-person 3D visuals were ahead of the curve, predating more famous hits like Atari’s Battlezone. “I 1984) modeled the entire United States, Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 Scot Bayless, the studio manager overseeing the team, says an early demo left Bill Gates stunned. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2.0

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

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. In the mid-1970s, close to half of the top 100 computer scientists in the world were working at PARC, and the laboratory boasted similar strength in other fields, including solid-state physics and optics. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.”

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