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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

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This is actually something Cleveland has been working on for years, starting way back in 2015. However, some residents of the the United Kingdom and France have taken to destroying surveillance cameras and blocking enforcement vehicles in protest on the basis that they find the scheme oppressive and extremely greedy.

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Europe Mandates Automatic Emergency Braking

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A case in point is intelligent speed assistance, which Ford has offered in Europe on the S-Max since 2015 and on the more affordable Focus since 2017 , well before the EU had even decided to make it mandatory. “In The rules require that the driver retain the power to override the systems, which makes for less intrusive nannying.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Meanwhile, legal scholars and civil-society groups are asking whether a hands-off border can really keep Europe’s hands clean. The main reason is because the E.U. million people.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

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Navigant suggests that, since the automakers have already designed the vehicles that they will be selling in 2018, they will become more vocal in 2014 to push for changes; the firm expects the dispute to escalate, perhaps resulting in legal action. In October, California passed legislation committing to build 100 hydrogen stations by 2024.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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After several years of court battles and hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, Trek won that case, persuading the judge that his ThumbDrive was the first device ever designed to be plugged directly into a computer without the need for a cable. As of this writing, Tan remains in jail in Singapore.

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