The company recorded its best monthly results since May 2007, at the peak of the housing bubble, and noted continued demand for fuel efficient vehicle and acceleration in truck sales, which grew 6%.

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To provide some form of throttle to allow acceleration and deceleration, the vehicle's designers added the EJ200 jet engine.

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In another example of help from technology, a teenager can activate an app on his or her cellular phone and then put it in their vehicle's cupholder, where it will score the driver's abilities based on acceleration, cornering and braking, she said.

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The vehicle has a single-speed transmission that makes it feel sprightly off the line, producing acceptable acceleration (reported at 9.5 seconds from zero to 60), good for around town, and a top speed limited to 85 miles per hour.

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As sighted drivers do, Mark made active use of his other senses such as sound, listening to the noise the tires generate rolling over the roads, and used the sense of angular and linear acceleration perceived from his inner ear to make judgments and adjustments to the controls of the vehicle.

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