Are Electric Cars the Solution?
Industries pushing electric cars are not so much concerned with slowing down climate change as they are accelerating technological control
Source: resilience.org
Rocking down to Electric Avenue? Good luck charging your car
European and U.S. cities planning to phase out combustion engines over the next 15 years first need to plug a charging gap for millions of residents who park their cars on the street.
Source: reuters.com
World's wealthiest (and 'business as usual') 'at heart of climate problem'
"These [polluter elite] are people who fly most, drive the biggest cars most and live in the biggest homes which they can easily afford to heat, so they tend not to worry if they’re well insulated or not. … They’re also the sort of people who could really afford good insulation and solar panels...
Source: bbc.com
Betting on death of petrol cars, Volvo to go all electric by 2030
"Volvo's entire car lineup will be fully electric by 2030, the Chinese-owned company said on Tuesday, joining a growing number of carmakers planning to phase out fossil-fuel engines by the end of this decade." Maybe the transition to all electric cars is going to go faster than it appeared only a few...
Source: reuters.com
Volvo Cars to go fully electric by 2030
"The Swedish firm is to phase out all models with internal combustion engines over the next few years."
Source: bbc.com
3D Scene Understanding with TensorFlow 3D
Posted by Alireza Fathi, Research Scientist and Rui Huang, AI Resident, Google Research "The growing ubiquity of 3D sensors (e.g., Lidar, depth sensing cameras and radar) over the last few years has created a need for scene understanding technology that can process the data these devices capture. Such...
Source: googleblog.com
Road plans will scupper CO2 targets, report says
Road plans will scupper CO2 targets, report says: The majority of emissions cuts from electric cars will be wiped out by new road-building.
Source: bbc.com
Four Key Barriers to the Widespread Adoption of AI: There is a lot of buzz about the promise of artificial intelligence
Four Key Barriers to the Widespread Adoption of AI: There is a lot of buzz about the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning—from self-driving cars to predicting heart attacks, AI is spreading like wildfire across industries, triggering a massive investment in talent as businesses...
Source: mit.edu
Robot car "Stanley" designed by Stanford Racing Team marked the start of the age of driverless cars and an AI milestone.
Robot car "Stanley" designed by Stanford Racing Team marked the start of the age of driverless cars and an AI milestone. "On October 9, 2005, Stanley and the Stanford Racing Team were awarded 2 million dollars for being the first team to complete the 132 mile DARPA Grand Challenge course in California's...
Source: stanford.edu
Electric cars 'will not solve transport problem': Car use will still need to be curbed, even when all vehicles use clean
Electric cars 'will not solve transport problem': Car use will still need to be curbed, even when all vehicles use clean electricity, a report warns.
Source: bbc.com
Half of young people want electric cars: Young drivers increasingly want to buy electric cars - but myths are still deterring
Half of young people want electric cars: Young drivers increasingly want to buy electric cars - but myths are still deterring older drivers, survey shows.
Source: bbc.com
Alphabet's DeepMind Makes a Key Advance in Computer Vision: Alphabet's DeepMind neural networks can grasp a three-dimensional
Alphabet's DeepMind Makes a Key Advance in Computer Vision: Alphabet's DeepMind neural networks can grasp a three-dimensional scene from just a handful of two-dimensional snapshots
Source: ieee.org
London has implemented an interesting idea to curb speeding: magic. The British capital has painted optical illusions on
London has implemented an interesting idea to curb speeding: magic. The British capital has painted optical illusions on its streets as part of a pilot program to get drivers to slow down, according to podcast 99% Invisible. The idea is both simple and clever: Paint the streets to look like they have...
Source: fastcompany.com
What Happens When Carpooling Laws Suddenly Change? Chaos!: A huge jump in traffic congestion in Jakarta shows how valuable
What Happens When Carpooling Laws Suddenly Change? Chaos!: A huge jump in traffic congestion in Jakarta shows how valuable carpooling had been—before the government ended it
Source: ieee.org
Cornwall to tackle traffic emissions at Grampound: Work is to begin on an action plan to improve air quality in Grampound,
Cornwall to tackle traffic emissions at Grampound: Work is to begin on an action plan to improve air quality in Grampound, a village in Western Cornwall, following the declaration of the village as an AQMA. This is a tricky problem to solve (other than diverting all the traffic or going all-electric...
Source: airqualitynews.com
Feds Call Tesla's AutoPilot Safe: Not only does NHTSA exonerate AutoPilot for the May 2016 fatality, it credits the system
Feds Call Tesla's AutoPilot Safe: Not only does NHTSA exonerate AutoPilot for the May 2016 fatality, it credits the system for reducing crashes by 40 percent overall
Source: ieee.org
2017 Is the Make-or-Break Year for Tesla’s Gigafactory: Finally the company’s lithium-ion batteries will start coming
2017 Is the Make-or-Break Year for Tesla’s Gigafactory: Finally the company’s lithium-ion batteries will start coming off the line. But will they juice Tesla’s fortunes?
Source: ieee.org
V2V - vehicle to vehicle communication is coming ... perhaps. "Feds push hard for vehicle-to-vehicle communication, at
V2V - vehicle to vehicle communication is coming ... perhaps. "Feds push hard for vehicle-to-vehicle communication, at least until Jan. 20 - ExtremeTech: Feds want V2V short-range safety communications on cars in the next five years. Whether that happens depends more on President Trump's transportation...
Source: extremetech.com
Doctors call for ban on diesel engines in London - BBC News: A campaign led by medical professionals is calling for all
Doctors call for ban on diesel engines in London - BBC News: A campaign led by medical professionals is calling for all diesel cars to be banned from London.
Source: bbc.co.uk
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