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Taking autonomous driving off-road for mining, search and rescue, exploration
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Taking autonomous driving off-road for mining, search and rescue, exploration

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Trees, vegetation, rocks, unpredictable terrain and the lack of clearly defined roads—or roads at all—won’t stop an autonomous, off-road...

Smart driving new front in China car wars despite fatal crash
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Smart driving new front in China car wars despite fatal crash

Almost 60 percent of cars sold in China last year had level-two intelligent driving features or above, according to an AlixPartners report. Intelligent...

Fatal Xiaomi crash raises questions about assisted driving tech in China
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Fatal Xiaomi crash raises questions about assisted driving tech in China

Credit: Junchen Zhou from Pexels Chinese EV maker Xiaomi said it would cooperate with a police investigation into a fatal crash involving one...

E-scooter crashes mainly caused by reckless driving, study shows
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E-scooter crashes mainly caused by reckless driving, study shows

Marco Dozza, Professor, Division of Vehicle Safety, Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Credit: Chalmers University of Technology...

Enhanced cathode materials could expand electric vehicle driving range
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Enhanced cathode materials could expand electric vehicle driving range

Graphical abstract. Credit: ACS Nano (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c10476 A research team has advanced cathode materials, a key component of electric vehicle batteries. Their...

New microactuator driving system could give microdrones a jump-start
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New microactuator driving system could give microdrones a jump-start

Study co-senior author Patrick Mercier (left), a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and co-first author Zixiao Lin, an electrical...

FTC bans GM from sharing driving data to settle claims that the automaker sold data without consent
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FTC bans GM from sharing driving data to settle claims that the automaker sold data without consent

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain General Motors will be banned for five years from disclosing data that it collects from drivers to consumer reporting...

Armed conflict and climate change driving global economic uncertainty: WEF | News
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Armed conflict and climate change driving global economic uncertainty: WEF | News

The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025 warns wars and extreme weather are buffeting economic confidence. Armed conflict and extreme weather driven...

Driving chemical transformations through the power of solar energy
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Driving chemical transformations through the power of solar energy

Conversion of CO2 to butene via a solar-driven tandem process. First, CO2 is converted to ethylene using an electrochemical reactor and solar-derived electricity....