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Volvo Car Corp. demonstrates autonomous driving in traffic jams; traffic jam assistance system ready for production in 2014

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This technology makes driving more relaxed in the kind of monotonous queuing that is a less attractive part of daily driving in urban areas. Slow-moving queues are part of urban commuting. But the legal situation for this technology still remains unclear. It offers you a safe, effortless drive in slow traffic. Earlier post.).

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Volkswagen’s Electrify America supplement discusses ZEV charging investments in disadvantaged California communities

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Volkswagen subsidiary Electrify America last week submitted supplemental information to the California Air Resources Board (ARB) detailing its proposed charging investment in and benefit to underserved, low-income, and disadvantaged communities in the state as part of its court-mandated investment plan. Earlier post.). Background. Background.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Squibb, were at the time locked in a nasty legal battle over the commercial rights to the antibiotic tetracycline. With the help of simple magnetic devices called “ induction coils ”—essentially spare radio parts, available at most any hardware store—the induction method amounted, somewhat paradoxically, to a wireless wiretap.