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...more remarkable developments in sensor technology is the Automotive Stability Management System under development by ITT and already proved on frozen test tracks in Sweden and on the upper peninsula of Michigan. Using a coordinating system of seven sensors that detect the sideways momentum, steering-wheel position and cornering rate of the car along with the rotation of each of its wheels, the asms overcomes any driver error and makes skidding virtually impossible even on ice covered lightly by snow. "With this system," says ITT's Tom Mathues, "you can floor the throttle and still get around a cone obstacle...
...from Washington, which has joined it in a $1 billion Supercar program. The goal: development of a joint prototype vehicle that will achieve fuel economies of 80 m.p.g. by 2004 "while maintaining performance and cost of owning today's cars." Since internal-combustion engines, no matter how efficient and sensor studded, are unlikely to attain so high a gas mileage, the Supercar partnership is looking elsewhere. Aided by scientists at the U.S. National Laboratories, it is exploring such power sources as fuel cells and gas turbines, along with such energy-storage devices as flywheels, ultracapacitors and innovative, lightweight batteries...
...reconfigure the lateral sensor array...
...certain, in fact, that Geraldo hasn't already done it?) The film takes place in the year 1999, when the crime problem has ratchetted up a few notches. Driving home from work, Jessica sees random fights on the streets, and when she enters a bar, a computerized sensor announces, "Weapons clear." Despite a few lapses in logic -- even for a man whose appeals are exhausted, how can an execution be scheduled this precisely? -- the film, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (Stephen King's "It") from a script by Thomas Baum (The Manhattan Project), unfolds with caustic plausibility, from the outbreak...
Even the Hubble repair mission has already had glitches. Last week ground technicians discovered a faulty sensor in a control device on Endeavour's right wing. After mulling over the problem for a day, NASA officials decided not to delay the mission, because three other backup sensors could do the job of the malfunctioning one. Of course, given the shuttle's recent record, a Dec. 1 launch is not exactly a safe...