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Relax: self-driving cars wont kill you (and theyre not really self-driving, yet)
2016-07-07 15:30:11| Extremetech
There's a limit to what today's best driver-assisting cars can do. Common sense helps keep you safe. Or you could make a YouTube video.
Paris Bans All Pre-1997 Cars During Weekdays to Fight Pollution
2016-07-05 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Cars During Weekdays to Fight Pollution Radovan Bahna Commuter traffic in Paris. Starting this month, Paris is banning all cars built before 1997 from driving within city limits Monday through Friday in an effort to lower air pollution levels. Paris has been struggling with smog for years and its pollution levels have briefly topped those in Beijing. Similar to Mexico City and New Delhi, Paris banned even- and odd-numbered license plates on alternating days to fight smog earlier this year. It...
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Sadiq Khan unveils plans for extra charge on London's most polluting cars
2016-07-05 11:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Older, dirtier cars will have to pay a 10 pollution charge to drive in central London, according to plans set out by Sadiq Khan on Tuesday. The charge, on top of the existing 11.50 congestion charge, would apply from 2017 to cars first sold before 2005. The mayor of Londons proposals to tackle the capitals toxic air also include a big expansion of a planned Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) and a faster roll-out of cleaner buses. Cities are growing around the world and air pollution is...
Paris Bans All Cars Made Before 1997 to Reduce Pollution
2016-07-04 00:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Anyone driving an older car or an old motorcycle will no longer be welcome in the streets of the French capital on weekdays. The ban, which aims to reduce air pollution in the City of Light, came into effect Friday and makes Paris the first city in the country to officially establish a "limited traffic area." From now on, personal-use vehicles built before January 1, 1997 and utility vehicles built before October 1, 1997 will have to be off the roads from 8:00am to 8:00pm, Monday to Friday....
Intel, BMW, Mobileye to develop self-driving cars
2016-07-03 12:47:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Intel confirmed it has joined forces with BMW Group and Mobileye to make self-driving vehicles and develop future mobility concepts. The companies are aiming to introduce systems for highly and fully automated driving into series production by 2021. The BMW iNEXT model will be the foundation for BMW Group's autonomous driving strategy and set the basis for fleets of fully autonomous vehicles, not only on highways but also in urban environments for the purpose of automated ridesharing solutions.
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