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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

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One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. 3.3), as did Apple Siri (3.4,

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. In 2014, Trek signed deals with Ricoh and Mattel China to license the Flu Card design. Meanwhile, worldwide sales of computer equipment had started to boom.

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Car News: 2024 Consumer Electronics Show

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Polestar and Google All Polestar vehicles have Google Built-In , but now the technology will have enhanced features. New functions allow for planning trips on Google Maps for Android or Apple iOS and in-car browsing with Google Chrome. Founded in 2014 and acquired by Amazon in 2020, the Zoox timeline is impressive.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. And by 2014, you could drive a Tesla cross-country and built into that car's navigation system is what I described earlier the ability to say "Take me from where I am now to this destination.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. And by 2014, you could drive a Tesla cross-country and built into that car's navigation system is what I described earlier the ability to say "Take me from where I am now to this destination.