Author: Brendan Jordan

Brendan Jordan

Brendan Jordan is Program Director at the Great Plains Institute, a non-profit focused on energy and climate policy. Brendan is interested in innovative transportation, fuel, and urban design strategies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He loves living in south Minneapolis.

Autonomous Cars and Simple Machines

 Simple Machine: a mechanical device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force. In general, a simple machine can be defined as one of the simplest mechanisms that provide mechanical advantage (also called leverage). (Wikipedia definition for Simple Machine) The reason autonomous, or driverless, cars are important is the same reason reducing greenhouse gas emissions […]