The U.S. government should require automakers to make the latest collision prevention technologies standard equipment on all new cars and trucks, a move that could reduce fatal highway accidents by more than half, federal ...
Engineering
Nov 14, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Fuel economy of all new vehicles sold in the United States is at its highest level ever, say researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 6, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Are gasoline-fueled cars or large diesel trucks the bigger source of secondary organic aerosol (SOA), a major component of smog? UC Berkeley researchers have stepped into this debate with a new study that says ...
Environment
Oct 22, 2012
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(AP)—Now hiring in Detroit: Software developers and programmers.
Business
Oct 8, 2012
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Emissions from new vehicles are down a record 20 percent in the last five years, say researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 5, 2012
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The biobased world's traditional focus on producing fuels for cars, trucks and aircraft is quietly undergoing a major transition this summer toward production of chemicals needed for manufacture of hundreds of different consumer ...
Materials Science
Sep 19, 2012
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Amazon.com built its business for the digital age, but it's crossing over to the bricks-and-mortar world.
Business
Sep 16, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Fuel economy of all new vehicles sold in the United States is up for the first time in five months, say researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 7, 2012
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As a high school student in a Detroit suburb in the 1990s, Russ Tedrake did not fit the standard profile of a future computer science professor. Although he had a talent for math—"I won some of the little math competitions," ...
Robotics
Aug 29, 2012
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Jack-knifing is a major cause of devastation in a road traffic accident involving articulated trucks. Researchers in Greece have now designed a device to prevent this often lethal action of such vehicles. Writing in the International ...
Engineering
Aug 29, 2012
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