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...fatigued. It's like driving drunk," says Zelinsky. If the system, called FaceLAB, spots a sleepy operator, an alarm of some sort goes off to rouse the driver. "Windows up and down, vibrating seats and God knows what," he explains. Volvo, which has invested in Seeing Machines, will deploy the technology "in the next few years,'' says Zelinsky, who expects other automakers to follow. He also foresees applications in trains, boats and planes as well as in the military as a way to keep drivers alert during advances, which can last days...
...first Muslim nation to recognize Israel, and cultivates extensive ties with the Jewish state. Long a faithful U.S. ally and member of NATO, Turkey aspires to join the European Union. Although its populace bitterly opposed the war in Iraq and its Parliament refused to let the U.S. deploy soldiers from Turkish soil, the government has been mending ties with the U.S., even offering to send peacekeepers to Baghdad (which the Iraqi Governing Council refused to accept...
While the U.S. and its allies have dithered for months over whether to deploy more troops outside Kabul, Afghanistan's countless warlords have established a reign of terror in the nation's small towns and rural areas. At the same time, a recrudescent Taliban, aided by its al-Qaeda allies, has stepped up attacks on U.S. troops and reconstruction efforts in southern and eastern regions of the country, assassinating 13 aid workers since May. The latest, a French U.N. employee, was shot in the face and killed early last week by suspected Taliban gunmen in the southern town of Ghazni...
...however, will be delighted. It comes into service on Dec. 1, making its maiden voyage from Dubai to Sydney under the Emirates airline livery. The flight time will be 14 hours, but this tireless behemoth can handle journeys of 17 hours or more, and Emirates has additional plans to deploy its fleet of eight A340-500s on trips to North America and New Zealand...
...combat capability; it was to send a message that the U.S. and its allies are not safe even in the supposedly tranquil Shiite south of Iraq - and that message appears to have had an instant effect on the intentions of other U.S. allies, with Japan postponing its plans to deploy troops to Iraq in December, and South Korea capping its own commitment at less than a third of the number requested...