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Protecting Your Ride: A Guide to Anti-Theft Systems & Devices

Clean Fleet Report

This statistic alone highlights the importance of taking preventive measures to protect your car. Theft doesn’t discriminate; high-end luxury cars, family minivans and everything in between can be targets for thieves. Even if a thief manages to break into your car, they won’t get far without the means to start the engine.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

Cars That Think

His career goal, for as long as he can remember, was to be an engineering professor. Rather, he thought of scientific and engineering research as a type of religion, practiced at universities. Zadeh received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Tehran in 1942. Vital Statistics Name Lotfi A.

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Tesla says Model S comes out on top in US-NCAP crash testing with lowest Vehicle Safety Score

Green Car Congress

While the Model S is a sedan, it also exceeded the safety score of all SUVs and minivans, according to Tesla. A relative risk score factor (RRS) is calculated as the quotient from combined injury probability and a statistical quantifying parameter. Based on the data, Tesla said, it achieved a combined record of “5.4

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

Charged EVs

That’s not surprising—the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, the company’s only previous plug-in hybrid, is a well-executed PHEV with an EPA-rated 32 miles of usable electric range that retains all the virtues of the Pacifica minivan. It was all-new for the 2018 model year, and was engineered from the start to accommodate 2021’s PHEV version.

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