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Smart Meters vs. Social Capital by Ashley Trim

Source: City Journal, Dec 5 2012, 5:17pm CST

Californians are, for the most part, car people. We may like public transit in theory, but in practice, we spend slightly more than two and a half weeks each year behind the wheel, commuting to and from work. In that time, people wh ...

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Grimsby Telegraph commented Smart care a necessity

Source: Grimsby Telegraph  |   May 22 2013, 6:35am CDT

I HAD to call upon one of the emergency services last week to assist me. They were very helpful and, within an hour, I had professional assistance by my side. He made sure the situation was safe before greeting me po ...

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Preview: 2011 electric Smart fortwo

Source: Driving Canada  |   May 21 2013, 10:22am CDT

New York City: In 1882, Thomas A. Edison founded the first central power plant in the United States. By 1910, half of the cars running around New York City were electric-powered. But the fate of the electric ...

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The U.S. Government Tried to Make a Smart Highway With Driverless Cars, in the '90s

Source: Good Magazine  |   May 17 2013, 5:45pm CDT

Driverless cars. Much like hoverboards, it feels like we've been waiting for them for ages. In 1991, the U.S. government decided to actually try it out. Congress set aside $650 million for the "Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency act" to ...

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First Drive: Smart’s gasless ‘ED’ can’t get it up (to speed) very quickly

Source: Digital Trends  |   May 17 2013, 3:15pm CDT

The smart Electric Drive (or “ED”) represents the electrification of smart’s popular ‘fortwo’ city sweeper. Only now, in place of a gasoline engine, there’s a 55-kilowatt (73hp) electric motor co-developed by Daimler and Bosch. I recently had a c ...

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5 days ago

Zipcar car-sharing program expands throughout Minneapolis

Source: MinnPost.com  |   May 17 2013, 8:49am CDT

Car-sharing company Zipcar, Inc., has expanded in Minneapolis—the 21st major metro area in which it now operates. Since 2005, Zipcar has offered car sharing on the University of Minnesota campus, where the company sa ...

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5 days ago

Hot cars

Source: Salt Lake Tribune  |   May 17 2013, 2:01am CDT

Letter: Hot cars First Published 35 minutes ago • Updated 35 minutes ago OK, neighbors, when we get our hot days like today, remember pets and kids should not to be left in the car. Bring the kids in the store with you; leave the pets a ...

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5 days ago

Corporation Commission debates rules for 'smart meters'

Source: Verde Independent   |   May 16 2013, 3:45pm CDT

PHOENIX -- Elizabeth Kelley isn't claiming those smart meters reading your electric usage are going to kill you. But the Tucson head of the Electromagnetic Safety Alliance said the radiation coming off what essentially ...

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5 days ago

Ad Nauseum: Portugese Car Commercial Goes Metro to Slam Transit Riders

Source: Streetsblog LA  |   May 16 2013, 10:33am CDT

Via Copenhagenize, comes a television commercial from Portugal that’s also something of an insult. In the commercial for Mercedes Smart Cars, we see a lot of the tropes that the car industry is desperately trying to sell to people w ...

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5 days ago

Derby Telegraph published Used car snapshot: Smart For Two

Source: Derby Telegraph  |   May 16 2013, 9:57am CDT

IT took a while but motorists gradually started to come round to Smart's way of thinking. Smart's problem was that rival manufacturers did too. The ForTwo once stood virtually alone as a city car that adhered strictly to ...

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6 days ago

Tips on how you can sell your car in a smart way

Source: Daily Monitor   |   May 15 2013, 6:17pm CDT

Selling a car is really not as easy as it sounds. If you are thinking about selling your car, the first thing you will want to know is how much your car is worth. There are a variety of sources you can go to, includ ...

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