Cruise Robotaxis Entering More Cities

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 00:29:24 +0000

Cruise has slowly been expanding its network of robotaxis and their availability in certain markets. Though, it’s been a long time since the company entered new cities … until now. Cruise is now coming to Houston and Dallas. While Cruise vehicles will be fully self driving and operate even without safety drivers in other markets, […]

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Bay Area Sets NOx Emissions Standards for Gas Water Heaters & Furnaces, Effectively Ending Sales Starting in 2027

Credit to Author: Joe Wachunas| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:10:14 +0000

Big news for clean air last week. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) adopted amendments requiring the elimination of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from new water heaters by 2027 and new furnaces by 2029. We’ve been hearing about the indoor pollution from gas stoves this year. Gas water heaters and furnaces also have […]

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BYD Unleashes “Achiever” in Texas, As SF Receives Its Third Electric School Bus

Credit to Author: Raymond Tribdino| Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 23:15:23 +0000

It is called the ‘Achiever’ for good reason. The radical looking school bus — already attractive to the students who will use it — looks like it came straight out of a sci-fi movie set. It was revealed at the ‘Transporting Students with Disabilities and Special Needs (TSD) Conference in Frisco, Texas, just recently. The […]

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Motional Expands Autonomous Vehicle Testing Into San Diego

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:15:37 +0000

On any given day, Motional robotaxis may be seen on test drives in numerous cities in the United States, as well as Asia, including Boston, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, Santa Monica, and Singapore. In addition to locations such as San Diego where Motional vehicles have driven on the road assessing system performance. This breadth of driving […]

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Motional Expands Autonomous Vehicle Testing Into San Francisco

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:15:37 +0000

On any given day, Motional robotaxis may be seen on test drives in numerous cities in the United States, as well as Asia, including Boston, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, Santa Monica, and Singapore. In addition to locations such as San Diego where Motional vehicles have driven on the road assessing system performance. This breadth of driving […]

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A Collective of GM Cruise Cars Clogged a California City Street

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 18:05:02 +0000

The biggest concern most people have about autonomous vehicles is safety. We not only want the vehicle to take us places without killing us, but we also don’t want the difficult job of sorting through the Trolley Problem. In other words, we don’t want the trip to directly cost anybody their life. But, that’s not […]

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LYT CEO & Former Tesla Engineer Talks Using AI To Solve Traffic Flow

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:58:16 +0000

LYT is a cloud-based software platform using vehicle and machine learning technologies to solve the problem of traffic flow. You may remember my recent article on Elon Musk’s thoughts regarding the use of artificial intelligence to make traffic lights smarter. The problem is that massive amounts of time are wasted at a red light, especially […]

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RIP Google Makani: Perhaps The Entire Airborne Wind Energy Space Will Finally Disappear

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 20:00:03 +0000

With luck, the airborne wind energy space will sink back into academic research efforts involving kitesurfing kites at University of Delft. It’s useful to continue to play with things in academia, and it’s a domain with a lot of engineering complexity that’s a good proving ground for engineers who can go on to do useful things as a result

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