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    Electric Vehicles For many years car companies have been developing fully electric vehicles to help reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses. There are many benefits and drawbacks to using electric vehicles. Also, Europe and China are offering incentives to car companies that are developing on electric vehicles and citizens who purchase an electric vehicle, but electric vehicles will also affect the automotive industry. When people hear the words “electric vehicles” they often focus on the drawbacks

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    from a high to a low energy state. No interference can distract the sensor from working as it is considered the more improved system and has better resolution so it can see better and clearer than radar. This sensor can also see invisible things like car exhaust smoke coming from the tailpipe. Disadvantages of the LiDAR systems is that the price is too expensive, it can’t see past 230 feet causing the system the need to rescan again as it moves forward due to the slow refresh rate. Harsh weather like

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    EVs, or electric vehicles, have the highest likelihood of replacing gasoline powered cars compared to the other alternative fuels. Some vehicle manufacturers are already planning to shift production completely to electric cars already including Volvo and General Motors, two of the largest companies in vehicle production today, while Tesla already produces exclusively electric cars. The electric car trend is due largely to the efforts of Tesla and its founder, Elon Musk, who has been the figurehead

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    Self-driving cars are simply too innovative and new for the U.S. government to handle. That is why autonomous cars are still not road legal, despite safety efforts and data presented by major U.S. car companies, such as Tesla, Ford and Mercedes. However, a few industry leaders have joined forces in an effort to legalize self-driving vehicles once and for all. Ford, Google, Volvo, Uber and Lyft have founded the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets. They hope to raise safety awareness for self-driving

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    improve the safety features on their cars, doing for that a lot of research on sensors and ECU (Electronic Control Units). In this project was researched 7 major companies that are currently investing in autonomous cars, being Google the only one that is new on the automobile industry but, accordingly to researches carried out by the group, the most advanced on this new type of technology, showing expressive results in their monthly reports INTRODUCTION Autonomous cars are going to be a reality on people

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    It appears that a world with driverless cars that Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk envisions will not include Jaguar or Land Rover. Wolfgang Epple, the British automaker’s head of R&D made the statement that the company’s customers are not cargo. He went on to say that they do not want to be in the business of building robots to deliver cargo. According to CNET, Epple does not believe that Musk’s idea that human drivers will be banned. He said that since lawmakers are human, he cannot believe that they would

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    Google has been working to launch its self-driving cars for quite some time now, but people still have concerns about them. One of the biggest concerns is what happens when the autonomous car hit a pedestrian. To resolve the problem the company has filed a patented what can be best portrayed as human flypaper to protect the pedestrians from any extensive injuries in case of an accident. Notably, autonomous cars with smart technology use intelligent mapping and sensors in order to park the vehicle

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    After reading “Did my car join Al Qaeda”? By Woody Hocshswender, my view is that his essay was written to persuade his audience. His purpose really was to target and convince his audience that driving a SUV is a better fit vehicle for him. This doesn’t necessary make him a bad person in my opinion. His purpose is to inform his audience that, living in a Northern State especially during the winter months that, driving SUV is better fit for him. Hochswender beliefs that perhaps that gas prices

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    Over the previous years the car and innovation businesses have made huge jumps in bringing computerization into what has for over a century been only a human capacity: driving. New vehicles progressively incorporate elements, for example, cruise control system and parking help frameworks that permit autos to direct themselves into parking spots. A few organizations have pushed the envelope much further by making completely self-governing vehicles (AVs) that can explore parkways and urban situations

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    not for driver-less cars. While others think that driverless vehicles can’t be trusted yet without a commission to help lawmakers with regulating the vehicles and government officials that know more about this technology to better watch over it, I believe that we are ready for this new evolving automobile because driverless vehicles already has too much potential beginning with its self-automated breaking system and warnings. Google has announced that their self-driving cars will be on the road

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