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...Americans don't seem to know as much. Driver distraction is a leading suspect in about 1 in 4 of the nation's 6.3 million annual motor-vehicle accidents. The newest attention thieves are collectively known as "telematics," a term that encompasses not only cell phones but also onboard navigational systems and personal digital assistants like Palm Pilots, Blackberries and Handsprings. With an estimated 110 million Americans using cell phones and a growing army of PDA owners fetching their e-mail, stock quotes and news reports anytime, anywhere, there is growing alarm that these devices have collectively become as dangerous...
Surely the most disturbing point was the Americans' labeling the Ehime Maru "a fishing vessel" instead of a high school training boat. If a Japanese warship had sunk an American ship with high school students onboard, causing the death of several of them, what would the American public have said? DAVID WOOD Fukuoka, Japan...
Fortunately, we had an onboard navigation system, the Magellan 750NAV, in our Hertz rental car. While I drove, Danny punched in our coordinates. The NAV system computed the location of the closest 7-Eleven and--miraculously--displayed turn-by-turn driving instructions on a large, easy-to-read map while also reading them aloud...
...defined missions, something the ISS lacks. Astronauts can study the long-term effects of weightlessness on their own bones and muscle, as they have since the 1970s, but it's hard to say what benefit will be derived back on Earth. In fact, the first important science study done onboard will try to determine whether the station is even a good place to study microgravity, seemingly the one advantage it would have over ground-based labs...
More important, the NHTSA ratings are static, which means they do not take into account how a car handles. Consumers Union, the nonprofit organization that publishes Consumer Reports, last week criticized the ratings for this reason. Increasingly, the top-selling SUVs have a battery of onboard systems that help prevent a rollover, including antilock brakes, independent suspensions and computerized monitoring systems that adjust power to each wheel when a skid begins...