This National Highway Traffic Safety administration document: • Provides a description of developments in automated driving and explains the levels of automation defined by NHTSA. • Provides an overview of NHTSA’s automated research program. • Provides recommended principles that States may wish to apply as part of their considerations for driverless vehicle operation, especially with …
D-Wave, the small company that sells the world’s only commercial quantum computer, has just bagged an impressive new customer: a collaboration between Google, NASA and the non-profit Universities Space Research Association. The three organizations have joined forces to install a D-Wave Two (512 qubit), the computer company’s latest model, in a facility launched by the …
The Chinese economy is known for its industrial might. Manufacturers, miners, utilities and builders accounted for over 45% of China’s GDP in 2012. In America, by contrast, they typically contribute less than 20%. Manufacturing’s share of China’s GDP was more than 18 percentage points above the global norm in 2005. Services, in contrast, were almost …