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Researchers at the AgeLab at M.I.T. have developed a "smart car" to test technologies that may extend the safe-driving life of older people. The fire engine-red 2000 VW Beetle is outfitted with driving simulators and bumper-mounted sensors that use radar to activate collision-warning and emergency-alert systems. The collision-warning system gauges the speed and distance of oncoming traffic, which can help older drivers safely make a left-hand turn--the most common cause of crashes for the elderly. The emergency-alert system beeps when a car drifts from its lane. A vision-enhancement screen...
...Bumper stickers, cards and slogans decorate all corners of her office with expressions of empowerment for women. A sticker hanging from one of her shelves says, “Equal Protection...
...bumper crowd of little kids, with parents in the hallway trying to get a glimpse of them," recalls Rob Leider, assistant principal at the school, West Bloomfield High. His heart went out to these youngsters: "They seemed pretty studious. But when they finished and came out of the rooms, they were little kids lost in a big building, looking for their mothers...
...solid six inches separate the back bumper of the hulking 12-person van and a cement support beam in the impossibly-configured parking lot. This situation makes Katherine E. Tierney ’02, who is behind the wheel of the van, a tiny bit nervous. It is not helping matters that Steve Griffin, the man the Harvard Insurance Office trusts to teach her how to park, is outside the van telling the funniest jokes he has ever heard. He shouts that he is “bad at” estimating distances and that she should keep coming because...
Wiley left a conference at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis around midnight on Nov. 15. His abandoned rental car was found on a bridge over the Mississippi River four hours later, with a hubcap missing and streaks of yellow paint on the bumper...