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QOTD: Dealing With The Metric System

The Truth About Cars

It's also something that was already on my mind long before I booked this vacation since I am an American working for a Canadian company. I personally can fairly quickly translate kilometers and kilometers per hour into miles and mph, but god help me if I try to quickly convert Celsius to Fahrenheit or vice versa.

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Horwin makes US electric motorbike debut – but at a price

Baua Electric

Order books are already open and a $100 deposit snags prospective riders three years of free charging. The 74 kW (100 hp) electric motor is powerful enough to offer a 0-60 mph time of just 2.8 But this time, the result is a bit pricier… to the tune of an expected US $16,800.

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Volvo Car Corporation intends to lead in field of autonomous driving technology; targeting the next-generation of consumers

Green Car Congress

Autonomous driving—the self-driving car—gives the human driver the ability safely to do something else besides drive, such as sending text messages or reading a book while the car drives itself. But being in a car that drives by itself while the driver reads a book is still quite a revolutionary thought for many people.

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Volkswagen outlines a range of near-term technologies for reducing fuel consumption and emissions; stop-start 2.0, 10-speed DSG

Green Car Congress

Fuel consumption of the sedan, which has a top speed of 240 km/h (149 mph), is 5.3 Rear passengers, in particular, can conveniently use their tablets to operate all key entertainment functions (radio and media), surf the Internet, view movies or send an address book entry to the infotainment system as a destination for navigation.

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

Green Car Congress

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. The smartphone assistants’ scores were 0.3

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Volvo introducing Pilot Assist II semi-autonomous drive tech as standard on MY2017 XC90

Green Car Congress

With generation two of Pilot Assist, the system now offers semi-autonomous driving functionality up to 130 km/h (81 mph) and no longer needs a lead car. Connected Service Booking, which allows workshop booking and reminders from the Sensus interface, will be added along with improved Internet Maps, TuneIn, Local Search and Yelp applications.

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