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Lux Research: “The rush to proclaim driverless cars as the near future for personal transport is, simply, wrong”

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In a note following the 2014 Automated Vehicle Symposium, Lux Research said : “ The rush to proclaim driverless cars as the near future for personal transport is, simply, wrong. ” The rush to proclaim driverless cars as the near future for personal transport is, simply, wrong. Multiple times, we heard the phrase “But Google says.”

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Toyota unveils i-ROAD 3-wheeled electric personal mobility vehicle concept at Geneva

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Toyota unveiled the new i-ROAD three-wheeled electric personal mobility vehicle (PMV) concept at the Geneva motor show. This design also allows for a more car-like environment on board, with the potential for features such as lighting, heating, audio and Bluetooth to be provided. i-ROAD concept showing Active Lean in action.

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Obama Administration releases National Bioeconomy Blueprint; health, food, energy and environment

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The White House today released a national Bioeconomy Blueprint , a comprehensive approach to harnessing innovations in biological research to address national challenges in health, food, energy, and the environment.

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Smartphones and sensors as personal, real-time pollution monitors

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This approach ignores big differences in air quality in school and work environments. The researchers equipped more than 50 school children with smartphones with CalFit software to obtain information on their location and physical activity level. Nieuwenhuijsen’s team wanted to test technology''s ability to fill in these gaps.

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NYU-BMW i report explores future urban mobility; sustainability and resilience

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Demographic factors such as an overall urban population boom, the increase in urban single-person households and rapidly aging urban populations—the population age 65 and older in New York City, for example, is expected to increase more than 36% by 2030—will lead to significant changes in urban mobility. million to 229 million.

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Delphi presents MyFi Connecting with Safety concept car at IAA Frankfurt show

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By locating important information in the driver’s forward view, MyFi uses voice recognition, text-to-speech, large touch screens, reconfigurable displays and workload management technologies to tailor information to the driver depending on the driving environment. Work load manager and driver state sensor.

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ARPA-E tackles multi-modal transportation with approximately $10M in funding for TRANSNET

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personal vehicles, buses, light rail, etc.). Today, personal transportation is entering a period of rapid change, enabled by the introduction of new technologies. Energy used in personal transportation by mode and efficiency. within the network. The time is ripe for this new approach. For each mode, values are based on CY2011.