Audi has been vaguer about what it will show, though the automaker currently leads the growing attention for autonomous cars that has developed since Google started working with its automatic Toyota Prius in 2009.

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After negotiations between Boehner and Obama broke down, "(Senate Minority Leader Mitch) McConnell stepped up and put the deal together, " observed Zelizer, who added the Senate could take the lead again in working out agreements on things like handling automatic spending cuts put off by this week's fiscal cliff deal and likely upcoming battles over the debt ceiling and funding the federal government.

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At age 25 he was working for his father, who had invented the automatic car wash, and was bored silly.

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