#Scientists plan to clone Brazil s endangered species Black Lion Tamarin, the most endangered of the eight species in Brazil Scientists in Brazil want to expand a mass effort to clone the populations of eight
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#Singapore opens world s first commercial vertical farm Transplanting some leafy green seedlings at the grand opening of Singapore s first commercial vertical farm.
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#Brazil s strong tobacco control policies have saved more than 400,000 lives Brazil s policies could result in as many as 7 million lives saved by 2050.
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#If you are looking for a new startup idea, try farming Sustainable farming, which often ties into organic growing, has been reaping profits.
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#Ikaria, the island where people forget to die Ikaria Stamatis Moraitis, a Greek war veteran, came to the United states in 1943 for treatment of a combat-mangled arm.
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hacking trade databases, bribing officials, concealing timber s true origin, and hiding illegal timber amid legal stocks.
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#Family run companies in the U s. that have been around 100-plus years Trimper s Rides has been operating continuously for 122 summers on Ocean City s famous Boardwalk.
her database shows 1, 150 still in operation as of 2011, though, I m sure I have missed many of the small, privately owned ones,
the pot#is the culinary innovation with, by far, the most intriguing disambiguation page on Wikipedia. 15.
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#Doubt cast on advantages of organic produce and meat Researchers say organic foods are no more nutritious and no less likely to be contaminated.
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#Global manufacturing is changing with a new wave of robots At the new Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif,
Factories like the one here in The netherlands are a striking counterpoint to those used by Apple and other consumer electronics giants,
Apple s iphone manufacturer, continues to build new plants and hire thousands of additional workers to make smartphones,
This year, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee, economists at the Massachusetts institute of technology, made the case for a rapid transformation.
Mr. Mcafee argues. At what point does the chain saw replace Paul Bunyan?##asked Mike Dennison, an executive at Flextronics,
a manufacturer of consumer electronics products that is based in Silicon valley and is increasingly automating assembly work.
the director of robotics technology at an Atlanta consulting firm called Factory Automation Systems, offered attendees a spreadsheet to calculate how quickly robots would pay for themselves.
If the United states does not compete for advanced manufacturing in industries like consumer electronics, it could lose product engineering
The robot uses a technology pioneered in Microsoft s Kinect motion sensing system for its Xbox video game system.
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#World s toughest law banning logo s on cigarette packs upheld in Australia Tobacco companies fear the law will set a global precedent that could slash billions from the values of their brands.
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#U s. colleges see increased demand for degrees in agriculture An agronomist measures and records corn growth and other processes.
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#Superfood Cocolicious Chocolates will rock your world Is your chocolate Organic, Raw, Low Glycemic, Vegan, and Gluten Free?
what Steve jobs did in that first garage where they designed the world-changing Apple computers.##She leans forward
and those who failed to meet weight-loss goals could get individual counseling by phone or in person.
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#Apple s retail employees are long on loyalty but short on pay Apple employees During Jordan Golson s best three-month stretch last year, he sold bout
and Verizon Wireless and will this year pump billions into the economy. Within this world, the Apple Store is undisputed the king,
. as the company s heart and soul, a majority of its workers in the United states are not engineers or executives with hefty salaries and bonuses but rather hourly wage earners selling iphones and Macbooks.
Though a significant increase, Mr. Moll s new salary of about $36, 000 puts him on the low side of the wage scale at the other large sellers of Apple products, AT&T and Verizon
yet these days some former employees describe a work environment that was too hectic and stressful, thanks in large part to the runaway popularity of the iphone and ipad.
#says Ms. Jackson, who now works at Groupon. It was sort of like, Congratulations. You ve done
Initially, that involved walking into stores, including those operated by Sprint and AT&T, and scouting out promising employees.
ask for permission before touching anyone s iphone. And we told trainees that the first thing they needed to do was acknowledge the problem,
because aspiring sales employees would clearly be better off working at one of the country s other big sellers of Apple products, AT&T and Verizon Wireless,
It s not at all common but there are sales agents at Verizon who earn six figures, #says Jonathan Jarboe,
who managed Verizon Wireless stores in Oklahoma until last summer. Several former Verizon Wireless managers said that annual pay ran from $35
000 up to $100, 000 in rare cases, with the sweet spot in the $50, 000 to $60, 000 range.
#When Work Piles Up The iphone, which arrived in 2007, brought unprecedented crowds to Apple Stores.
After the great influx that started with the iphone, the company started plucking managers from stores like the Gap and Banana republic.
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#Hydrovolts tap canal currents for 12 kw of power apiece Powerful new power options. Irrigation canals are the blood vessels of agriculture,
David Carroll, a cellphone case lined with the material could boost the phone s battery charge by 10 to 15 percent over eight hours,
And unlike Angry Birds on your phone, Strap Game (that s the official name) will alert you
Your Body, Your Login A team of Dutch and Italian researchers has found that the way you move your phone to your ear
The most common iphone password is 1234.##Down the line, simple movements, like the way you shift in your chair,
The cart uses Microsoft s Kinect motion-sensor technology to track and follow you through the store,
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#What you need to know about what s inside those breasts Breasts are getting bigger and arriving earlier.
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#Wind farms might be warming the planet New research indicates that large wind farms can cause local temperature increases.
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#Use of common pesticide, Imidacloprid, linked to Bee Colony Collapse Imidacloprid is in a lot of commonly used products.
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#Scientific proof that popcorn is healthier than fruit and vegetables Popcorn. It s whats for dinner.
Killer apps of the past, like online search, email, and ecommerce, now over a decade old, are becoming mature industries.
and mobile apps are also becoming old news. Every major industry of the past provides the foundational underpinning for industries of the future.
Today, there are 1. 2 billion people getting broadband Internet access on their phones. The number of smartphones sold now exceeds the number of PCS sold.
Mobile apps are now a $10 billion marketplace growing over 100%per year. The number of available apps through Apple and Android now exceeds 1. 2 million with over 34 billion downloads so far between the two of them.
Angry Birds alone has had over 600 million downloads. Draw Something#was launched 6 weeks ago and already has over 20 million downloads
It s now the number one app in 79 countries. To reach the 1 million user milestone,
it took AOL 9 year, Facebook 9 months, Draw Something#9 days. Both the speed and pervasiveness of broadband connections continue to climb rapidly.
I ve coined to describe a person who produces more than a terabyte of new information every day.
So far there is no comprehensive effort to build a database of humanity s heritage capable of scaling to the point of including everyone on earth,
Replacement for Wikipedia-At the Davinci Institute, we began a series of Wikipedia research projects to uncover
Missing content is in direct correlation to the relevancy Wikipedia will hold in the minds of people in the future.
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#Smoking related deaths triple in the past decade A billion people will die from tobacco use and exposure this century one person every six seconds.
The world s six biggest tobacco firms made $35. 1 billion in profits in 2010 equal to the combined earnings of Coca-cola, Microsoft and Mcdonald s,
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#30 to 50 percent of food produced in the world is thrown away Two women collect food waste beside an industrial dumpster at the main food market in Madrid.
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#USDA speeds approval for new herbicide-tolerant crops despite Superweed problem If your answer was Monsanto,
The USDA now will take public comment on seed developers petitions for deregulation at the start of the review process
#Top 10 Photos of the Week Mass suicide in the phone industry. If only they had a way to call for help!
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#Americans eating less meat Meatless meals were s a top food trend for 2011. It may be due to rising prices,
a professor of computer science at UBC and the leader of the lab in which the bunny was developed.
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#Edible silk sensors let you know if your food is spoiled Sensors pick up the change when a fruit ripens or rots.
A new technology will let you simply wave your phone over itor any foodto get a verdict on whether it s still edible.
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#Scientists working on building a better leaf Scientists are analyzing the molecular pathways that plants use for photosynthesis. For decades,
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#Cow collar texts ranchers when animals are sick or in heat Even cows can benefit from having a mobile device.
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#Women more attracted to men with healthy golden skin: study Women more attracted to healthy golden skin than a masculine face.
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#Tree Bench portable bench turns any tree into a shady seat Tree Bench Aandeboom, the Dutch team that brought us the clever P-Tree urinal,
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#The top ten instant noodles in the world Not all instant noodles are the same.
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#Fracking Could Ruin New york s Organic food Industry Facing an uncertain future thanks to fracking. Once again Nut butter produces organic products in upstate New york#t s a pretty successful company as far as organic food goes,
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#Food crops harmed by air pollution crossing continents: study Ozone pollution generated in each of the Northern hemisphere s major industrialized regions damages six important agricultural crops.
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#Is there any hope for a non-genetically modified future in America, or Africa? It is really only a matter of time before our food crisis becomes crippling.
Environmental Health News highlights the failed hope of GM crop developers: That these proprietary crops will stay where they are planted
or that the titles you want will be made available via Apple s ibooks store. If your school buys a stack of paper textbooks,
which runs on MAC OS X only. Publishers who use Windows or Linux computers in the office need not apply.
If you want to create EPUB books, you can get software that runs on any platform.
Just as with itunes and its App store Apple gets to decide what content gets in, based on its arbitrary standards.
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#25 Technologies I Didn t See at CES Futurist Thomas Frey: After spending the past three days scouring the showroom floors at CES,
Google s self-driving car project has racked already up over 200,000 driverless miles on highways. 6.)Ground-Based Delivery Drones Before we have sold driverless passenger cars in any sizable quantities
Accomplishment-Based Educational Apps-Much of what happens in today s colleges and universities is based on symbols of achievement,#not actual accomplishments.
A new generation of apps will soon be developed that allow students to autonomously work their way through an actual accomplishment
and the request that product developers continue to work on disruptive technologies. We are still in the awkward in-between stages of technology.
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#Guerrilla Grafters: Turning public trees into fruit-bearing trees Money doesn t grow on trees,
I presented my thoughts on the Future of Mobile Apps & Peripherals#at our monthly Night with a Futurist event.
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According to Android vice president Hugo Barra, these were near-perfect for some languages in 2013. However
it took much longer for Google, Microsoft and Japan s NTT Docomo to deliver the service in a non-intrusive
and fashionably acceptable way soft contact lenses are evolved sleek, and from Google glass. Innovega led the early work here,
Audi, BMW, GM and Google tested them first. The search engine giant wanted them on the roads by 2020
Job posts by Microsoft Research in mid-2013 suggested that it was then#oedeveloping the hardware
#By 2050, The Human Media Lab at Queen s university in Kingston, Ontario in Canada has developed a life-sized hologram-like telepod that uses Microsoft s Kinect System and a cylindrical display for live
since the days of IBM s first contract in Qatar, because air pollution and congestion are no longer a problem,
altering the economy as products (from micro-batteries to phones and medical implants) can be produced for a fraction of their traditional manufacture costs.
Nokia was an early mover in holographic advertising. Available for a long time, it uses a combination of Mylar screens, super high-definition overhead projectors and reflective surfaces,
Holograms have gone portable via personal, ipad-sized display pieces, including the Chinese-owned Facebook-Apple Corporation s iholo mobile device.
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That was around the time Google was getting started, and now we have multi-hundred billion dollar Internet companies.
Consider that IBM s Watson got a higher score on the American television game of Jeopardy than the best two human players combined.
#What is appreciated not widely is that Watson got its knowledge by reading Wikipedia and several other encyclopedias, a total of 200 million pages of natural language documents.
At Google, we are creating a system that will read every document on the web
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
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#Boulder is America s startup capital Downtown Boulder, Colorado Boulder, Colorado has become an entrepreneurial powerhouse.
herbal tea pioneer Celestial Seasonings, Storagetek (later acquired by Sun microsystems for $4. 1 billion), and the biochemistry lab that led to Amgen.
and he cautioned them about suburban developers,#oedirty industries, #and pandering to tourists. Above all, he said,
and IBM moved its tape drive manufacturing division out there, which later led to the founding of storage start-ups Storagetek, Exabyte, and Mcdata.
welcoming developers in to build out new housing and offices. Instead, it did the opposite.
stymieing developers, heading off major roadways, and preserving nature. Next, the city limited new housing starts to just 2 percent a year.
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#7 things you didn t know the world was running out of Helium is a highly necessary commodity in the modern world.
As George Paul, director of cheesemaker Bradbury & Son, toldthe Telegraph: Retailers would either need to pay more for goat products
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#Google s self-driving car. Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights,
signal to the left and turn to the right. They drink too much beer and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat at their kids.
They have blind spots, leg cramps, seizures, and heart attacks. They rubberneck, hotdog, and take pity on turtles, cause fender benders, pileups,
He holds his phone up to the window with both hands until the car is framed just so.
#Levandowski is an engineer at Google X, the company s semi-secret lab for experimental technology.
As a sophomore, he won a national robotics competition with a machine made out of Legos that could sort Monopoly money#fair analogy for what he s been doing for Google lately.
He was one of the principal architects of Street view and the Google maps database, but those were just warmups.#
The Google car is an old-fashioned sort of science fiction: this year s model of last century s Make it belongs to the gleaming,
I was told by Ron Medford, a former deputy administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration who now works for Google.
is the founder of the Google Car project. A wunderkind from the west German city of Solingen, he programmed his first driving simulator at the age of twelve.
He gradually scraped together thirty thousand dollars from Raytheon, Advanced micro devices, and others. No motorcycle company was willing to put its name on the project.
Machine learning is an idea nearly as old as computer science#lan Turing, one of the fathers of the field, considered it the essence of artificial intelligence.
Their lead programmer had lifted his preliminary algorithms from textbooks on video-game design.##oewhen you look back at that first Grand Challenge,
By then, Thrun and Levandowski were both working for Google. The driverless car project occupies a lofty, garagelike space in suburban Mountain view.
It s part of a sprawling campus built by Silicon graphics in the early nineties and repurposed by Google, the conquering army, a decade later.
Google guards its secrets more jealously than most. At the gourmet cafeterias that dot the campus, signs warn against#oetailgaters##orporate spies who might slink in behind an employee before the door swings shut.
the cofounder of Google, told me. Brin was dressed in a charcoal hoodie, baggy pants, and sneakers.
#When Thrun and Levandowski first came to Google, in 2007, they were given a simpler task:
Google engineers went on to jury-rig some vans with G. P. S . and rooftop cameras that could shoot in every direction.
and sent them all over the United states. Google street view has since spread to more than a hundred countries. It s both a practical tool and a kind of magic trick#spyglass onto distant worlds.
which Google had been leasing from companies like navteq. The street and exit names could be drawn straight from photographs
but Google maps had to be comprehensive: every logging road logged on a computer, every gravel drive driven down.
Street view and Maps were logical extensions of a Google search. They showed you where to locate the things you d found.
So they sent a delegation to the US, to Apple, to Microsoft, to Google, and they asked the people there who were inventing the future about themselves.
According to Eric Schmidt of Google, every two days now the human race creates as much information as we did from the dawn of civilisation until 2003.
as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.
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#Companies rush to build bio-factories for a wide range of products Vials of genetically engineered life-forms.
#oeyou can now build a cell the same way you might build an app for your iphone,
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#Carbon-negative energy now a reality In 2007, officials from Berkeley, California shut off the electricity to an artists space known as the Shipyard.
000 a month to power a cell phone tower, Price said. But a Powerpallet could do the job for a fraction of the cost,
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#Google hopes to cure death with its new health startup Calico Google is planning to launch a new company with the absurdly ambitious objective of extending our lives.#
Google gave exclusive access to Time magazine for a story on the new venture. Underscoring the scope of Google s ambition,
the cover of Time asks, #oecan Google solve death?##That, in a nutshell, is the goal of Calico.
Sounds like a joke, but it s not. On Google+,Google CEO Larry page wrote,#oeok#so you re probably thinking wow!
That s a lot different from what Google does today. And you re right. But as we explained in our first letter to shareholders,
there s tremendous potential for technology more generally to improve people s lives. So don t be surprised
He has the blessing of Apple CEO Tim cook to start this new Google-y company.
On Google+he says, #oeit s still very early days so there s not much more to share yet.
That s why Google is doing self driving cars, and balloons floating in the air with Internet connections.
Google which boatloads of cash, and limitless ambition sees itself as the only company willing to take big risks like this.#
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA September 18, 2013 Google today announced Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.
Google CEO said:##oeillness and aging affect all our families. With some longer term, moonshot thinking around healthcare and biotechnology,
#And here s his Google+entry: I m excited to announce Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.
That s a lot different from what Google does today. And you re right. But as we explained in our first letter to shareholders,
And Arthur Levinson is also on Google+with an announcement: You may have seen the news (http://goo. gl/Kjre4q) that Google
and I will be starting a new company focused on health, aging and well-being, called Calico.
#When I served on Google s board,+Larry page and I got to know each other well#nd
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#Google s quest to popularize self-driving cars How a self-driving car sees the world.
At about 8am every morning, Anthony Levandowski gets into the driver s seat of his white Lexus for his daily commute to work.
And with that, Levandowski has handed off control of his vehicle to software named Google Chauffeur. He takes his feet off the pedals and puts his hands in his lap.
It s not just Google that s developing the technology, but also most of the major car manufacturers:
Following Google policy, Levandowski drives through residential roads and surface streets himself, while Chauffeur drives the freeways.
#Levandowski works at Google s headquarters in Mountain view, California. He s the business lead of Google s self-driving-car project, an initiative that the company has been developing for the better part of a decade.
Google has a small fleet of driverless cars now plying public roads. They are test vehicles,
but they are also simply doing their job: ferrying Google employees back and forth from work. Commuters in Silicon valley report seeing one of the cars#asily identifiable by a spinning turret mounted on the roof#n average of once an hour.
Google itself reports that collectively the cars have driven more than 500,000 miles without crashing. At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year, where Governor Jerry brown signed California s self-driving-car bill into law, Google cofounder Sergey Brin said#oeyou
can count on one hand the number of years until ordinary people can experience this.##In other words, a self-driving car will be parked on a street near you by 2018.
Yet releasing a car will require more than a website and a#oeclick here to download#button.
In the language particular to Google, the researchers are#oedogfooding#the car#riving to work each morning in the same way that Levandowski does.
Google needs to put the car in the hands of ordinary drivers in order to test the user experience.
#oewe have a saying here at Google, #says Levandowski.##oein God we trust#ll others must bring data.#
Chris Urmson, the director of Google s self-driving-car project, told a government audience in Washington, D c,
Google s crew of young testers have been trained in extreme driving techniques#ncluding emergency braking, high-speed lane changes,
to put down that coffee or phone, and refocus.##oeit could be 20 seconds; it could be 10 seconds,
There has been reported only one accident that can conceivably be blamed on Google. A self-driving car near Google s headquarters rear-ended another Prius with enough force to push it forward
and impact another two cars, falling-dominoes style. The incident took place two years ago#he Stone age,
in the foreshortened timelines of software development#nd, according to Google spokespeople, the car was not in self-driving mode at the time,
Considering that the Google self-driving program has clocked already half a million miles, the argument could be made that Google Chauffeur is already as safe as the average human driver.
It s not an argument Google makes to the public because Levandowski says the system hasn encountered t enough challenging situations in its real-world commutes.#
#oewe can speculate; we have models, but we don t actually know the value of the technology to society,
#Google has been uncommonly secretive about its self-driving-car program. Though it began in 2009,
#Google is still not saying much to reporters (including this one) about its plans, but since it was accused of being the bad guy in a real-life Matrix,
Google lobbyists have made the rounds with legislators in Washington. Its engineers have made pilgrimages to Detroit and abroad.
Google wants to make#oeavailable to the rest of the auto industry all of the building blocks that we ourselves use,
#he said and then ticked off the goodies#oethe Android operating system, search, voice, social, maps, navigation, even Chauffeur.#
#Instead of rebuilding a whole operating system from scratch, he said, automakers should focus on making the user experience their own.
if Google is proposing to give away the software. For the car companies, the real cost of implementing the technology would be specialized in the peripheral that Chauffeur needs to run:
But at $75, 000 to $85, 000 each, Google s lidar costs more than every other component in the self-driving car combined, including the car itself.
A grizzled maverick of an engineer named David Hall designed the lidar that Google uses.
Industry scuttlebutt has it that Ford is giving Google the most serious consideration. Hall confirms that a major automaker recently summoned him to its headquarters to ask
Google, to its credit, shows no signs that it s allowing Detroit to slow it down.
Google is not a car manufacturer. Nor does it intend to be one, Levandowski says. So what s the plan?#
#In other words, Google thinks a new generation of bot-rodders may kick things off. Google won t say anything more,
but since there s really only one place to turn for the all-important lidar, I ask David Hall
and the super-high-resolution Google maps that go with it, Hall doesn t see the point. He imagines talking to potential customers.#
#oe#Almost as good as Google s?##The other fight is the legal one. It too is filled with catch-22 s. Hall described a Powerpoint presentation containing the automaker s analysis of self-driving-car technology.#
The Google car doesn t work without one, as Chauffeur needs to be able to hand back the reins with 10,20,
Some states, prodded by Google lobbyists and looking to get ahead of the curve, have made the cars explicitly legal.
the director of Google s self-driving-car project, allows. But that doesn t mean the development of potentially lifesaving technology should be halted.#
Wayne Gerdes, the father of#oehypermiling,#can nearly double the rated efficiency of cars using fuel-sipping techniques that could be incorporated into auto-driving software.
Level three has the Google-style autopilot. And level four is the holy grail#he car that can drive you home
who worked with Google on its self-driving-car project for two years.##oepeople start doing all kinds of things they shouldn t#igging around in the backseat, for example.
#Google is betting that established car manufacturers, working with low-cost radar and camera components, will never adequately bridge that gap.
NHTSA s former deputy director, Ron Medford, has signed just on as Google s director of safety for the self-driving-car project.#
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