California and nearly two dozen other states on Wednesday filed suit against the Trump administration, arguing that its decision to weaken fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks puts the public's health at risk and ...
Environment
May 29, 2020
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Is the reporting of media outlets biased in favor of firms that advertise with them? A new study looked at the relationship between advertising by car manufacturers in U.S. newspapers and news coverage of car safety recalls ...
Economics & Business
May 22, 2020
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Engineers and business leaders have been working on autonomous cars for years, but there's one big obstacle to making them cheap enough to become commonplace: They've needed a way to cut the cost of lidar, the technology ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 16, 2020
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Freeways have failed to solve traffic congestion, but transport planners globally are hesitant to remove or rethink them, according to University of Queensland research.
Social Sciences
Apr 06, 2020
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used machine learning to analyze spin models, which are used in physics to study phase transitions. Previous work showed that an image/handwriting classification model could ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 30, 2020
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Can scientists understand human behavior enough to figure out what drives the choices you make? In fact, it's called "decision science," and it's something that Anna Spurlock, a behavioral economist with Lawrence Berkeley ...
Economics & Business
Mar 13, 2020
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Scientists have made a breakthrough in the search for a new, sustainable permanent magnet.
General Physics
Mar 03, 2020
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More than half of Australian households own two or more motor vehicles, while only seven percent own none—we are, without a doubt, a car country.
Social Sciences
Mar 03, 2020
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Flashing crosswalk lights are no match for flashy cars, according to a new UNLV study which found that drivers of expensive cars are least likely to stop for crossing pedestrians.
Social Sciences
Feb 27, 2020
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More organization at the molecular level could improve the efficiency of membranes used in the hydrogen fuel cells that provide energy to electric cars and other industrial applications, according to a review published in ...
Polymers
Feb 18, 2020
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An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods. However, the term automobile is far from precise, because there are many types of vehicles that do similar tasks.
As of 2002, there were 590 million passenger cars worldwide (roughly one car per eleven people). Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The numbers are increasing rapidly, especially in China and India.
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