This is the battery electric 2022 BMW i4 eDrive40, which goes into production in early 2022. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ] Remember when the BMW 3 Series was the byword for a sporty-slash-luxurious sedan? With an image bolstered by halo cars like the M3, the small BMW four-door was the car to have, particularly if you […]
Expand / Joel Johnson using a driverless Waymo automobile. (charge: Joel Johnson) Waymo has {} specifics regarding its industry-leading self-driving technologies. The business has done tens of thousands of miles of studying at Arizona and California–such as tens of thousands of driverless miles with nobody behind the wheel. But before last month, nearly everyone who […]
(credit: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.12.021007 ) Science is often viewed as utilitarian. We explore the natural world so that we can plunder its secrets for our own benefit. Indeed, this is often precisely the sort of science that funding agencies seek. But, for most scientists, the utilitarian comes second to other motivating factors: The observation of beauty and […]