In October 2010, four driverless electric vans successfully concluded a 13, 000-kilometer test drive from Italy to China, Nevada has issued the first set of regulations for driverless cars, and WIRED magazine recently ran a cover story anticipating driverless cars in your life in the near future.
Last November, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation proposed a new set of rules that will require passenger cars and light trucks to achieve a combined average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
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The force of Friday's blast, the worst in the Lebanese capital for four years, ripped balconies from the fronts of buildings and set many cars on fire.
The Bluebird Club on the King's Road is believed to have housed one of the cars in which Sir Malcolm Campbell set one of his nine land speed records.
The train, loaded with the equivalent of 200 truck loads of onions, apples and broccoli packed into cars set with ideal temperatures for each type of food, takes off from Walulla.
The scheme, the first of its kind in Scotland, was set up to encourage people to get "out of their cars and onto their bicycles".
Sutton House was built in 1535, when King Henry VIII ruled over England and this part of London -- now busy with cars and tower blocks -- was set against miles of open grassland.
The blast, which was heard several kilometres away, set many cars ablaze and destroyed the facades of nearby buildings.
The president has set a goal of 1 million plug-in cars by 2015.
Some 113 people have been arrested so far over the trouble in Manchester and Salford, where hundreds of youths looted shops and set fire to cars and buildings.
Only about 40 of the Glasgow cars are attempting to complete the full route, with the remainder competing in set stages of the rally in support events.
We want to set a standard that says by 2015, 100 percent of cars, alternative fuels.
Saturday's ambush, in which the suspected insurgents set off a land mine and fired at a convoy of cars carrying Congress workers from a party rally, was one of the most deadly targeting politicians.
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Mr Curtis and Mr Holmes claim they set out towards Lincoln on the day of the attack to steal cars.
In the central town of Orebro, about 25 masked youths set fire to three cars and a school, while in Sodertalje, just outside the capital, an empty building was torched, police said.
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But second and most importantly, the innovations of the last two years have given people access to a whole new set of information beyond the best prices for airlines, hotels and cars.
"The fact that Ford and GM are even considering working together on a set of new transmissions intended to improve fuel-economy for both cars and pickups shows that auto makers are willing to consider just about anything to continue to improve fuel-efficiency across their lineup, " said Alec Gutierrez, a senior analyst at Kelley Blue Book.
But a new daily record was also set on 11 August, when a combined total of 15, 152 cars were carried across the Tunnel.
All the new cars have been designed to conform to the biggest set of F1 rule changes in 25 years, which are aimed at improving racing and making overtaking easier.
Angry workers set ablaze a fire truck and several cars in Noida, a suburb of the capital, Delhi.
Hyundai is set to announce plans to bring forward the mass production of hydrogen fuel cell cars, so we might see such vehicles on the road in just a couple of years.
Yet another example of a company taking a calculated risk to set its brand apart is Cadillac which is suggesting that seekers of high performance cars give credit where credit is due.
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Disney has several highly anticipated movies set for next year, including Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Cars 2.
One idea would be to set standards so cars could not accelerate so fast, or that the mass of cars didn't increase.
The epicenter of the chaos in Hackney was on Mare Street, where rioters set cars alight, battled police and took everything from shops they could carry.
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Last year 2m of the 15.1m cars sold in America went to customers who set foot in the dealership only to pick up the car.
In 1959 he and his second wife Isabelle Haskell, an American who was herself a racing driver of some accomplishment, set up a firm to design and build racing and sports cars.
The end result was that nobody knew who was on pole and the top 10 drivers got out of their cars and were swapping times to work out who had actually set the hot lap.
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