Tag: auto industry
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Google Unveils Self-Driving Car, Sans Steering Wheel
from cnet.com: Google has built a self-driving car from scratch — a vehicle that has no steering wheel or accelerator or brake pedals. A two-seater prototype of the vehicle was unveiled Tuesday by Google CEO Sergey Brin during an onstage interview at the Recode Code Conference in Palos Verdes, Calif. Instead of the car controls…
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U.S. Plans Car-to-Car Warning System
from nytimes.com: The federal government said on Monday that it planned to require all new cars to broadcast their location, speed, direction and other data, and to receive similar data from other vehicles, to warn drivers of impending collisions. But regulators cautioned that any new rules would be years away. The National Highway Traffic Safety…
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Cars Avoid Crashes By Talking To Each Other
The display at a recent transportation conference was a peek into the future of automotive safety: cars that to talk to each other and warn drivers of impending collisions.
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#Newspurge: March of the Meanies
Some 9/11 victims’ remains were sent to landfill // Michael Douglas to banksters: Stop imitating me // Andrew Breitbart Drops Dead in Los Angeles // Police dismantle Occupy London site // Rockefeller Throws Fundraiser at Mansion With Telecom, Mining Lobbyists
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9/22 defcon: secure boot & game transfer phenomena
onstar tracks your car even when you cancel service* windows 8 secure boot would ‘exclude’ linux* comcast’s $9.99 internet for low-income families goes nationwide* what will video games be like in a few decades?* video games intruding on reality: ‘game transfer phenomena’*
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‘find my car’ app for mall zombies also handy for police
from smh: Westfield’s new app means you’ll never lose your car in the shopping centre again – and police now have at their fingertips technology to track down stolen and unregistered vehicles. Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney recently added to its iPhone app the functionality for shoppers to find their parked car by entering its…
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8/4 Defcon: Black Hat, Shady Rat, Mantech & More
Former CIA official Cofer Black ‘predicts’ cyber 9/11 // Stuxnet changes terrorism equation, says former CIA official at black hat con // Vanity Fair exclusive on ‘Operation Shady Rat’: Unprecedented cyber-espionage campaign & intellectual-property bonanza // Hackers hit FBI merc Mantech; Online security contractor for FBI, NATO, DOD, DOJ & state dept // Randi Zuckerberg…
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Obamessiah & Econocrash Updates: Debt Sealing US Fate
Video: Obama strikes fear into US while reassuring big banks* ‘Super Congress’: Debt ceiling negotiators aim to create new legislative body* US Constitution makes default illegal: What a real president would do on aug 1* Obama admin sells Chrysler shares to foreign company* Who owns america? Hint: it’s not China* Most of US debt is…
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obamessiah threatens ‘armageddon’, warns US ‘running out of time’
meanwhile, moody’s suggests US eliminate debt ceiling… from afp: US President Barack Obama pressed polarized lawmakers Saturday to avert what he called economic “Armageddon” by quickly forging a deal to prevent an early August debt default by the world’s richest country. “Simply put, it will take a balanced approach, shared sacrifice, and a willingness to…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Black Boxes, Cyber Autonomy, Superfood Inflation
new world next week: episode075 – black boxes, cyber autonomy, superfood inflation Welcome to the 75th episode of New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report & Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news & open source intelligence. This week: Story #1: Coming Soon – ‘Automotive…
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Coming Soon: ‘Automotive Black Boxes’ for Every Vehicle
Next month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to declare that all vehicles must contain an event data recorder, known more commonly as a “black box.”
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Even Good Economic News Can’t Help the Greenback Now
Summer may be on its way and Osama bin Laden may be dead, but that doesn’t mean the sun is going to shine on the dollar. Ben Bernanke made sure of that.
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More Drivers Running Out Of Gas As They Accelerate Towards Econocrash
With gas prices pushing $4 a gallon, a lot of people are trying to stretch their dollar at the gas pump, but some of them are trying to stretch it a little too far. // Related Update: Wal-mart shoppers running out of money
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US ‘Approaching’ Insolvency, Fix To Be ‘Very Painful’
The United States is on a fiscal path towards insolvency and policymakers are at a “tipping point,” a Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday.
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Connect to Chaos: GM/IBM Give Chevy Volt Its Own IP Address
The Chevy Volt will be the first car of its type: not because it is a hybrid electric/petrol vehicle, but because GM plans to give each one the company sells its own IP address.