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...website, and eventually traffic reports. Mercedes drivers can help themselves to text-based weather, sports and stock updates from U.S. company ATX, watch TV or bark orders to their radio, thanks to Mercedes-Benz's own Linguatronic system. Snarl-up warnings are piped in by German firm Tegaron. Italian on-board telecoms company Viasat foresees its customers shopping or downloading music while stuck in traffic jams. Carmakers call it "telematics" - interacting with services by means of text, buttons, touch screens, voice or sensors while driving. Is it a dream come true (Time in 1944 reported on an amphibious futuristic auto...
...course, human error may have played a significant role in the collision as well. After an extended on-board lunch with the civilians, the crew was left with little time to perform a critical periscope check, Griffiths said, and just before the collision, the sonar room was left without its supervisor, who was assigned to be a "tour guide" instead of watching over a trainee manning the sonar display. The continuing inquiry could have serious repercussions for several officers on board the sub, including Cmdr. Scott Waddle, who last week spoke exclusively to TIME about the collision - and the aftermath...
With the masters of Eliot and Adams Houses officially on-board, all 12 Houses will operate under universal keycard access between the hours of 8 a.m. and 1 a.m., come spring semester...
Listeners found Hawking's voice, as synthesized by his on-board computer, a bit hard to understand at first...
Each 377-ft. sub will feature highly sophisticated wake suppressors and pollution controls to mask its presence. A videocam system will replace the traditional optical periscope, making for more acute reconnaissance at night and in bad weather. Each vessel will have its own on-board computer network, packing more cyber-power into its 7,700 tons than the 65 attack subs that came before it put together. Eventually, the Navy plans to outfit the subs with "antitorpedo" torpedoes, which the Navy has fantasized about for decades...