LeviCar / PROACCTIVE / Lulue Newsletter # 186 (Wed. 2021/04/28 14:16 EDT)
Welcome to issue # 186 of the LeviCar / PROACCTIVE / Lulue Newsletter.
I am currently trying to submit a proposal to the Transportation Research Board
Transit IDEA Program
(Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis), and that is taking up a lot of my time.
Also, as part of a Hosting Migration, Godaddy changed something in the PHP compiler, and now the Lulue
webpage isn’t working – I’ll try to fix it.
If you are primarily interested in the "IN THE NEWS" part, click here.
This issue covers updates and changes for three of my websites, since April 19
(04/20 onward).
Website for the General Public, with a lot about my LeviCar project: http://www.LeviCar.com.
Website for Innovative Transportation Professionals: http://www.PROACCTIVE.info.
Website as a substitute for the former blog on EVWorld: http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php. It has the same content as the previous blog,
except for some explanatory notes. The “catch phrases” are in small type,
and highlighted in yellow.
All three websites, above, are “gluten-free” (no cookies) and “caffeine-free” (no java[script],
or any other script).
All of LULUE’s events are either in LeviCar.com or PROACCTIVE.info, or both.
LULUE has only upcoming events and a list of various organizations’ event calendars.
Many of the links to EV World are still on LeviCar.com, and I was able to recover them from
“The Wayback Machine”.
Research Paper: Click here
to download or view my 25‑page Research Paper, The Future of MagLev: How the
Magnetic‑Levitation SuperTurnpike will Revolutionize Ground Transportation (.doc format).
Contest notice:
The “Create the Future” Contest is open for 2021. Click
here. For my own entries for 2019-20, click at: http://www.LeviCar.com/#CreateFuture.
Other Contest:
NASA Langley Launches $20,000 UAV ‘Safeguard’ Competition
(postponed due to COVID-19).
Newly-Added Item: (other than events)
None
Newly-Revised Items: (other than events)
Dept. of Defense Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) —
Numerous small changes
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#DoD-SBIR
TRB’s IDEA Programs\nInnovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis —
Fixed it to postpone due dates that fall on weekends and national holidays
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#IDEA
New Event on the websites:
Focus: Electrification & Advanced Propulsion M‑Tu, November 15‑16
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Focus
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Focus
Revised Events on the websites:
International Conference on Ecology and Transportation (ICOET) Tu, September 21 to
Th, September 30 — Extended Deadline
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#ICOET
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#ICOET
Automotive Tech Week Formerly known as “ADAS & Autonomous Vehicles” and “TU-Automotive Detroit”
and “UX‑User-Experience Conference”™ M‑F, November 15‑19<
— Postponed
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Automotive-Tech
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Automotive-Tech
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Tu‑Th, November 2‑4
— Canceled
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#CAV-2021
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#CAV-2021
Events with due dates within the next ten days (until Sat., May 8):
32nd
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium – IV2021
Call for Workshop Papers: Complete Papers due Fri, Apr. 30
(firm & final)
IEEE TEC Prize Ph.D. Thesis Talk – 3-Min. Ph.D. Challenge
Call for Submission, incl. video due Fri, Apr. 30
International Conference on Ecology and Transportation (ICOET)
Call for Abstracts due Fri, May.7
(extended)
IN THE NEWS (Notice that the criteria for this are much broader than for PROACCTIVE.info):
What I would like you all to do is to check my list of blogs and bulletins, currently at
http://www.LeviCar.com/#Group-B and look at any
of those that you think are interesting, and subscribe them if you wish – most of the subscriptions are free.
This way, you can keep up-to-date. I shall continue to post links to exceptional articles in the newsletter, as well
as articles from sources not on the list. Later, I plan to separate out this list into a standalone webpage.
Batteries:
Japanese consortium agrees on standardized swappable batteries for e‑motorcycles
Electric Cars:
Tesla Cars in Boring Company Las Vegas Loop System
[Includes two videos (2:43); and (18:34) that I did not review.]
Research & Test Facilities:
Horiba MIRA’s vision for world-class AV testing
Self-Driving Cars, Trucks, and Delivery Robots:
How Passengers with Disabilities Can Drive the Autonomous Vehicle Revolution
FUN OLD NEWS:
Fallout Fusion Flea Manual
OLD NEWS:
This is what hybrid cars looked like 80 years before Prius
[Includes long video (34:45) starring Jay Leno; I did not review this video completely.]
Special notes:
Anyone can ask to subscribe to this newsletter by e-mail. The form, with further information,
is at this link.
Rest assured that I am not giving or selling your e-mail addresses to anyone.
The websites are updated as needed. New and recently-revised items are indicated by small ovals on the upper-left
corners of the link-blocks. See http://www.LeviCar.com/Guide.HTML#Oval.
Please rely more on the websites for the most current information. This newsletter may contain more detail
about why things were updated or changed, or removed. You do not need to have the newsletter to get the
full benefit of the websites.
Please forward this newsletter to anyone you might think would be interested in it, and
mention subscribing to this: Click here to subscribe, (or unsubscribe, or request back issues).
Thank you for your attention.
— Josh Levin (Dr. Zev)