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...that today is any slouch: We already have onboard navigation systems and infrared night vision and in-car satellite links and antiskid brakes and other electronic Samaritans poised to take control when we screw up behind the wheel. Jaguar's adaptive cruise control, available today, tracks the speed and position of the car in the lane ahead and automatically adjusts the speed to keep a safe time interval...
...says Reg, 68, a retired engineer from Aberdeen, Scotland, "but there's a sort of 'olde-worlde' feeling about it that's all too rare these days." It is a feeling that appeals to a certain age and type. "They call themselves snowbirds," says Thomas Quinones, the ship's onboard public-affairs director. "They sail around the world, keeping ahead of winter." Many are retirees who make cruise ships their semipermanent homes. Some have sailed first class on the QE2 a dozen times or more; they are known to the crew almost as family, donning their jewelry and dining frequently...
There's also a medical facility, which includes an operating table--onboard in case of emergency--and even a morgue, which unfortunately has seen service on a ship whose average passenger age is usually somewhere in the 60s. Happily, shipboard romances occur far more frequently than funerals. Widows typically outnumber widowers, but the ship's officers are always there for unescorted ladies...
...bigger and even more resplendent sister ship. The Queen Mary will be the largest passenger ship ever built, with palatial interiors to accommodate 2,500 guests. It will have suites, staterooms and apartments--not with portholes but each with its own private balcony. Mary will also have her own onboard brewery...
After the aircraft landed safely at California's Edwards Air Force Base last December, its onboard computer was to instruct the plane to taxi along the runway at about 15 m.p.h. Instead, the computer commanded the jet-powered drone to taxi at 180 m.p.h. The aircraft zoomed--to about 90 m.p.h.--before it careered off the runway, smashed its landing gear and collapsed into a sandy hill, causing $5.3 million in damage...