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Integrating Vehicle Design and Human Factors: Minimizing Elderly Driving Constraints: With a projected rise in the number of elderly, most of whom have also relied primarily on the private automobile for their mobility; it is likely that future adaptations in vehicle design will be linked in some part to the physical infirmities often faced by the elderly. This paper offers...; Tags: impairment, medical research, mobility; White papers 2005-02-10
The Response of the Auto Industry and Consumers to Changes in the Exhaust Emission and Fuel Economy Standards (1975-2003): A Historical Review of Changes in Technology, Prices and Sales of Various Classes of Vehicles: This paper assesses the responses of the auto industry and consumers to changes in the exhaust emission and fuel economy standards that have occurred in the United States and California in the past thirty years (1975-2003. It relates qualitatively these responses to technology developments and changing economic factors, such as...; Tags: inflation, sales, industry; White papers 2004-06-01
Feasible Cafe Standard Increases Using Emerging Diesel and Hybrid-Electric Technologies for Light-Duty Vehicles in the United States: This paper is concerned with the present status and future projections for emerging technologies that can be utilized in light-duty vehicles in the next five to ten years to significantly reduce their CO2 emissions. The emerging technologies considered are modern clean diesel engines and hybrid-electric power trains using batteries and/or...; Tags: capacitor, carbon dioxide, SUV, battery; White papers 2004-04-01
Anonymous Vehicle Tracking for Real-Time Traffic Surveillance and Performance on Signalized Arterials: One of the fundamental requirements to facilitate implementation of any Advanced Transportation Management and Information System ATMIS is the development of a real-time traffic surveillance system to produce reliable and accurate traffic performance measures. This study presents a new framework for anonymous vehicle tracking that is capable of tracing individual...; Tags: University of California, pattern recognition, information system, performance; White papers 2002-12-30
A ZEV Credit Scheme for Zero-Emission Heavy-Duty Trucks: Zero and near-zero emission vehicles based on electric-drive technology have the potential to play a long-term role in alleviating the air pollution, greenhouse gas, and energy use concerns associated with conventional vehicles. Most attention has focused on electric-drive technologies for light-duty vehicles LDVs, but some electric-drive technologies are also suitable...; Tags: greenhouse gas, pollution; White papers 2000-11-01

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Autonomous Volkswagen Touareg "Stanley," First-Ever Winner of the DARPA Grand Challenge, Comes Home to Silicon Valley for One Last Showing: Visit to The Tech Museum of Innovation Is Last Stop Before Stanley Makes Its Permanent Home at the Smithsonian SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Stanley, the history-making autonomous vehicle developed by the Stanford Racing Team, returns home to Silicon Valley after a global victory tour. Showcased at museums from...; Articles 2008-06-17
Reports say illegal U.S. entry not difficult: Undercover investigators testing how tough it is to cross the borders into the U.S. had a better than nine-in-10 chance of pulling it off using oral assertions and counterfeit identification, according to a new U.S. Government Accountability Office report. The report was released the same week as...; Articles 2008-06-16
Turning "green" into green: an environmentally friendly job market may offer opportunities to black workers: SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS SUCH AS RISING FUEL PRICES AND limited landfill space are creating a new "green" economy, a burgeoning market that could offer solid, long-term jobs to black and other minority workers. According to a study conducted by Raquel Rivera Pinderhughes, professor of urban studies at San...; Articles 2008-06-01
Chinese Teams Triumph at Inaugural VEX Robotics World Championship: Students From Around the World Compete in High-Octane International Robotics Tournament NORTHRIDGE, Calif. -- Close to one hundred teams from around the world invaded the Matadome at California State University, Northridge with their robots last weekend for the inaugural VEX Robotics World Championship. An alliance of three teams...; Articles 2008-05-05
2008 Production Model MILES ZX40ST Work Truck to be Introduced at the Green California Summit in Sacramento: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The highly anticipated, zero emissions, AC motor MILES ZX40ST work truck will be showcased publicly for the first time at the Green California Summit at the Sacramento Convention Center April 8-9. "We're pleased to partner with the Green California Summit as a Gold Sponsor and...; Articles 2008-04-07
$25,000 offered in hit-and-run death: OAKLAND -- Still-grieving relatives have added $15,000 to the reward fund for information leading to the arrest of a hit-and-run driver in the death of a Montclair woman. That brings the total reward to $25,000 in the case of Laura Belkin Baum. ...; Articles 2008-03-12
CARB Gives Grants for Studies on Air Pollution Effects on Health: Several institutions are joining the California Air Resources Board CARB in giving a total of $5.7 million to eight university and research institutes to study air pollution emissions and their health effects. CARB will provide $2.2 million in grants, which the California Energy Commission, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration,...; Articles 2008-03-03
Gasoline Prices Must Double to Make Plug-in Hybrids Economical: A new study by University of California researchers finds that gasoline prices must double from today's levels, or battery prices must plunge by at least a factor of two, in order for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles PHEVs to become economical. The study, published Feb. 25 in the scholarly journal, face=+Italic;...; Articles 2008-03-03
Toyota: We'll crack 35-mpg CAFE before 2020.(News)(Toyota Motor Corp.): Byline: Mark Rechtin Toyota last week fired a series of broadsides at General Motors' claim to environmental superiority. Toyota Motor Corp. CEO Katsuaki Watanabe and other officials made several announcements at the Detroit auto show concerning the company's alternative-powertrain...; Articles 2008-01-21
The ultimate design machine: BMW Designworks; Yes, they work on vehicle designs for BMW. But as a leading design firm, they're taking on plenty of things that don't have wheels and tires: Verena Kloos has a degree in industrial design from the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig, Germany. Kloos was the design director of VW's studio in Simi Valley, CA, from '91 to '94. She was the head of DaimlerChrysler's Advanced Design Studio in Como, Italy, a location where interior designs...; Articles 2008-01-01
Victory in Victorville: At the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's DARPA Urban Challenge, held November 3 in Victorville, California, Carnegie Mellon University's Tartan Racing "Boss" turned in the best overall performance and won the $2 million first prize. Stanford University Racing's "Junior" won $1 million for second place mere seconds behind, while...; Articles 2007-12-01
Audi: 'Connected' Vehicles Needed to Reduce CO2 Emissions: German automaker Audi said recently that it believes "connected" vehicles will be the next step in reducing vehicle CO2 emissions. By "connected" vehicles, Audi means vehicles that have "more intelligent interactions between driver and car, cars on the road and in the collection and distribution of real-time traffic patterns." Researchers...; Articles 2007-11-21
Plug-in Prius doesn't seem like a priority.(Final assembly): Byline: Mark Rechtin Toyota is not dragging its feet on plug-in hybrid technology. But it's not exactly the glee club, either. This month Toyota displayed two plug-in Prius vehicles it will share with University of California researchers and air-quality ...; Articles 2007-11-19
Audi Leads Effort to 'Optimized' CO2 Routes: To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS Contact: Jeff Kuhlman, +1-248-754-6017, jeff.kuhlman@audi.com, orChristian Bokich, +1-248-754-4729, christian.bokich@audi.com, bothof Audi of America, Inc. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Audi Engineers at thecompany's California Electronic Research Labs believe that the nextstep in reducing carbon dioxide emissions will come through"connected" vehicles. Ralph Weyler, Member of...; Articles 2007-11-15
Carnegie Mellon wins vehicle robot race: VICTORVILLE -- Members of a Carnegie Mellon University-based team of engineers and their tricked-out, driverless Chevy Tahoe known as "Boss" won $2 million for their victory in a Pentagon-sponsored robot race in the Southern California desert, race officials announced Sunday. Tartan Racing's "Boss" turned in the...; Articles 2007-11-05

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