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...manner and head for the "smartway." There you will merge into the auto lanes, activate your robo-driver and relax. The car will hurtle along at high speed--perhaps up to 140 m.p.h.--only a few feet from the cars in front and behind but protected by collision-avoidance radar and automatic brakes, with guidance coils on either side steering it down the center of the lane. You, meanwhile, can recline your seat, pop in some Mozart and close your eyes. A network of satellite-linked computer systems will guide you safely to your exit, at which point you will...
What's more, much of the equipment needed to make this Jetsons vision real, from cruise control to automatic suspension and antilock brakes, from vehicle-detection radar to dashboard navigation systems, already resides in industry catalogs. GM, for instance, is offering limited radar-based obstacle-detection systems in school buses. GM and Ford now equip their high-end cars with devices that call for emergency help after a crash. And some 4% of all new vehicles are expected to come equipped with onboard navigation systems that can tell drivers where they are by reading an onboard electronic...
...ruffians and charlatans have elbowed their way into the media tent. News has become everything from Hard Copy to Entertainment Tonight to America Online. In some ways that's very healthy. But now all kinds of rumors and innuendo and conspiracies can make their way onto the media radar screen...
...Dole says he's out to close the gender gap, yet his campaign is not using its greatest asset with working women: Liddy. Since her boffo show in San Diego, Elizabeth has gone under the national radar. She spends most of her time in places like Dover, Delaware, and Knoxville, Tennessee--not exactly major markets. She makes a fleeting appearance in one ad. The press is usually not allowed on her plane. What's more, she's rarely at her husband's side. And when she is, she almost never makes any remarks. The campaign says that Elizabeth will...
...severe nursing shortage gave the profession the leverage to win compensation commensurate with skill. Today the average staff nurse's salary is about $35,000; at New York City's Presbyterian Hospital, a nurse with 20 years' experience earns $71,250--a big blip on any cost-containment radar screen...