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...precise location. And nothing could be safer than driving the Buick Bengal concept car. Voice-activated control panels exist only as wraiths projected on the windscreen. The leather-covered dashboard is one big speaker, and there's no need to take your hands off the (wooden) steering wheel. When it comes on the market maybe it will walk on water...
...government can be sued only if it allows itself to be sued. Eventually we would bang heads with Clarence Thomas and his like-minded colleagues on the Supreme Court. I'd rather take my chances speeding on the New Jersey Turnpike in a BMW with Rodney King at the wheel and a blond hanging out the window...
...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 as a beer-fed teenager behind the wheel of a muscle...
...much touted safety benefit of these gizmos comes solely from not having to use your hands or eyes to operate them. Yet research suggests that even with your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road, the "cognitive" distraction of simply concentrating on something other than driving can get you into trouble. "The average driver does not have the training to process all this information safely while en route," argues Barry Kantrowitz, who directs the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute...
...They were the second group of civilians to take a one-day sub ride since the Greeneville collision. None were allowed to steer the 18,750-ton boat. That's been banned since the Greeneville incident, when a civilian had been sitting at the inboard helmsman's wheel. The prohibition is largely symbolic. The civilian steering the Greeneville had a sailor and diving officer behind him telling him every move to make on the wheel and had nothing to do with the accident; the mishap was already in the works by the time the civilian pulled the wheel back...