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This photo, provided by Rivian, shows the 2022 Rivian R1T. It is an all-electric pickup truck with an estimated annual electricity cost of $950. Credit: Rivian Automotive via AP Electrified vehicles are indiscriminate in their automotive expansion. First, it was hatchbacks and sedans, then SUVs. Next up: the pickup. Electric variants of light-duty pickups are being developed by a number of automakers, but there's one electric…

Gov. Brian Kemp stands next to a Rivian electric truck while announcing the company's plans to build a $5 billion plant east of Atlanta projected to employ 7,500 workers, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in Atlanta. Some residents oppose the plant, saying it will spoil their rural quality of life. Credit: AP Photo/John Bazemore, File Opponents trying to derail a $5 billion, 7,500-job electric truck plant in Georgia dominated a state…

Motorists can sit back and watch TV once self-driving cars are approved on British roads but will be banned from using handheld mobile phones, government plans revealed Wednesday. The Department for Transport set out changes to The Highway Code to "help ensure the first wave of self-driving vehicles are used safely". A DfT spokesman confirmed that in self-driving mode, users would…

A motivating example of M2I. Top: Traditional marginal predictor often produces scene inconsistent trajectory predictions that collide with each other. Even for non-colliding predictions, it ignores the potential interaction between agent futures and may predict unrealistic behaviors. Bottom: Our proposed approach M2I predicts scene compliant trajectories by first identifying an influencer reactor pair in the scene. It then predicts marginal…

Tesla commenced commercial deliveries last month from a new plant in Germany. Tesla reported another banner quarter of profit growth Wednesday on pricier vehicles and said its 2022 output plan was on track despite ongoing supply chain problems and a hit from recent COVID-19 lockdown measures in China.…

In this photo provided by Zipline, a drone makes a package drop during a demonstration at Zipline's Northern California hub in 2021. Zipline, an American company that specializes in using autonomously flying drones to deliver medical supplies, has taken off in Japan. Credit: Zipline via AP Zipline, an American company that specializes in using autonomously flying drones to deliver medical supplies, has taken off in Japan.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Displaying the highway death toll on message boards is a common awareness campaign, but new research from the University of Toronto and University of Minnesota shows this tactic actually leads to more crashes. A new study in Science by University of Toronto Assistant…

Ferrari has issued a recall plan with Chinese regulators over potential brake problems, affecting more than 2,200 vehicles. Italian luxury carmaker Ferrari has issued a recall plan with Chinese regulators over potential brake problems in its vehicles, an official notice said Friday. The recall affects…

Participants on their way to the Test Flight in an ATR72. Credit: International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace (2022). DOI: 10.15394/ijaaa.2022.1679 A lack of leg room is a well-known grumble among passengers on flights—but noise in the cabin is the number one gripe when it comes to propeller aircraft, a new study suggests.…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Humans live in a world where safety-critical systems are at work all around them. Scientists want to ensure that the proper safety constraints are in place so these systems can operate safely while also performing as needed. Toward this goal, researchers at Michigan State University have developed a method for designing a learning-enabled safe controller for systems that operate in uncertain…