Aptera Motors started taking orders for a three-wheeled solar car today and have the keys in your hand by next year. The curved, streamlined body gives the car a drag coefficient of 0.13, equipped with 100-kilowatt-hour battery pack, solar roof array called Never Charge. Read more at Car and Driver > Aptera Taking Orders for EV That It Claims Never Needs Charging
Waymo is building a fake city in rural Ohio that will be devoted to fine-tuning its self-driving cars’ urban driving skills. Waymo’s testing site is being built at the Transportation Research Center, include terrains like hills as well as high-speed and dense urban intersections to test all sorts of vehicles from safety, fuel economy and emissions to noise, crash simulation, and performance.
1/2 Waymo has secured two new facilities to advance the #WaymoDriver. First, we’re working with @TRCPG to co-develop an exclusive, first-of-its-kind testing environment that will model a dense urban environment. Second, we’re opening an R&D facility in Menlo Park, pic.twitter.com/WiX2vs2LxF
— Waymo (@Waymo) December 1, 2020
As AI-based self-adapting pricing algorithms increasingly used to quickly adjust the value of products and commodities in a dynamic market, anti-trust laws in Western society looks unfit for purpose to prevent companies from creating monopolies or colluding. Read more at Protecting consumers from collusive prices due to AI
Alex Lim
Alex Lim is a certified IT Technical Support Architect with over 15 years of experience in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting complex IT systems and networks. He has worked for leading IT companies, such as Microsoft, IBM, and Cisco, providing technical support and solutions to clients across various industries and sectors. Alex has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the National University of Singapore and a master’s degree in information security from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the author of several best-selling books on IT technical support, such as The IT Technical Support Handbook and Troubleshooting IT Systems and Networks. Alex lives in Bandar, Johore, Malaysia with his wife and two chilrdren. You can reach him at [email protected] or follow him on Website | Twitter | Facebook
