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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

Green Car Congress

One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. The smartphone assistants’ scores were 0.3

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History of the GEM Car and a Look at Its Future

Clean Fleet Report

A Small, Slow EV That Has Found an Expanding Niche You don’t need a high-speed sports car or heavy-duty truck when driving around your neighborhood. Global Electric Motorcars (GEM) has pioneered neighborhood electric vehicles (EVs), demonstrating a prosperous past and promising future.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. MB of data.

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In 1926, TV Was Mechanical

Cars That Think

Scottish inventor John Logie Baird had a lot of ingenious ideas, not all of which caught on. Baird’s starting point was an idea for an “electric telescope,” patented in 1885 by German engineer Paul Nipkow. And, my personal favorite, she thought he would love the annual broadcasting of the Eurovision song contest.

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It’s Time To Go To The Mattresses

Creative Greenius

Everyone thought that was a great idea, and I went along. They aimed more smokestacks at us and dumped toxic waste in our neighborhoods while they paid off the cops and the justice system to get away with it. Hey, it’s not personal. Therefore I’ll be speaking for the group. That just ain’t right.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. Eronen says. “It

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Opinion: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Speed Warnings

The Truth About Cars

This is a horrible idea. No reasonable person would say that driving 15 mph over the limit in that situation is the same as flying down a neighborhood street. This idea will just annoy drivers and add a small bit of cost to cars. I don't know about you all, but I don't want that kind of nanny forced upon me.

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