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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 That’s because it’s moving toward the dream of self-driving vehicles, which demands universal standards.

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How Russia Sent Ukraine Racing Into the “Energy Eurozone”

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Synchronization with the European grid marked a hasty culmination of a process that began in 2017 and was expected to take at least another year. Ukraine can now import up to 2 gigawatts of European power over links from Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary, enabling it to conserve domestic reserves of coal and hydropower.

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