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Austin city employees [(13,000)] can rent a Smart ForTwo for cross-town trips for 35 cents a minute. When they're done, they leave the car at a parking lot near their destination for someone else to use. The 35 cent-per-minute rate includes gas and insurance. The cars can be used for either work or personal trips.
(Valdes-Dapena, P., 2009, November, par.3)
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Green Giants: Conversations with Global Environmental Leaders
BS Top - Dakotah Electric Cars - Mercedes SLS Not long ago, the electric car was left for dead by greedy special interests. In a new documentary, Chris Paine chronicles its unlikely resurrection.Green Giants: Conversations with Global Environmental Leaders
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The so-called ‘Smart tossing’ takes place mainly during the weekend, when many youths are out for a night on the town.
According to locally-published newspaper De Telegraaf police has not wanted to publicize this form of vandalism for fear of copy-cat incidents. However, police officers are paying extra attention to Amsterdam’s canals, especially during the weekends.
The Smart cars are small enough to be parked with head or tail pointing to the water.
In recent years vandals have also targeted other small vehicles, including scootmobiles and tiny cars from the Canta brand — both used primarily by people with handicaps and limited mobility.
In an urban version of cow tipping, yobs apparently derive fun from tipping over these types of vehicles.The so-called ‘Smart tossing’ takes place mainly during the weekend, when... more
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The Ford Motor Co. is introducing a new key, called MyKey, to give parents more control over their teen's driving habits. It uses a computer chip to control the vehicle's speed and the volume of its audio system, among other things.The Ford Motor Co. is introducing a new key, called MyKey, to give parents more... more
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As cars become smarter than the people driving them and do more of the things humans should be doing for themselves — checking blind spots, watching for lane departures, anticipating collisions — it was only a matter of time before a car started reading road signs.
The "Traffic Sign Recognition and Lane Departure Warning" system available early next year on General Motors' new Euro-only Opel/Vauxhall Insignia scans the road ahead at 30 frames per second to read road signs and tell you when you're wandering from your lane.
The most innovative aspect of the system is the road-sign recognition processor, which can read signs as far as 100 meters away.
The system uses two processors and a camera -- called, appropriately, the Front Camera System -- mounted near the rear-view mirror. One processor identifies familiar shapes, symbols and digits on common road signs and conveys the information to the driver via a digital display in the gauge cluster. The other alerts the driver when he or she strays from the lane.
"These new features follow Opel's philosophy of enhancing driving excitement by assisting drivers without reducing their level of control," says Hans Demant, managing director of GM Europe Engineering. "That means the system gives the drivers information, but it doesn't intervene."
We're not entirely sure why GM thinks it's easier to read a speed-limit sign on a tiny display between your speedometer and tachometer than on a big road sign. Dement says "a car that can see and warn the driver well in advance of potential hazards is another important step in our long-term accident prevention strategy.” GM Europe also is developing vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems that allow cars to exchange information about their position and speed.As cars become smarter than the people driving them and do more of the things humans... more
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