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		<title>Learn how to program a robotic car in 7 weeks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago in &#8220;Why We Don&#8217;t Have Flying Cars, Yet&#8221; I explained why automation is the next big innovation for vehicles, not alternative energy. Standford is offering a 7 week undergraduate class teaching how to program a self-driving car. Automation improves the under-satisfied outcome of cars but it is also technologically easier to make [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michigan desperately needs innovation to be competitive. When Japan started using Statistical Process Control (SPC) now known as Six Sigma, it was a competitive differentiator. In other words Japanese auto makers used quality and lean process as an innovation. Detroit has been feverishly implementing Six Sigma but they are still losing ground to the Japanese [...]]]></description>
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