Black boxes have been a source of info in countless criminal cases to show how fast a driver was going when he or she slammed into pedestrians or another car.

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This system, Positive Train Control (PTC), is intended to stop or slow a train automatically if a driver goes too fast or passes a red signal.

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In motor racing, you can see how fast a car is going, whether the driver is using the brake or the throttle and a host of other data.

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Good exposure to fast growing Asian markets has been a key revenue driver for Peabody.

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Michael Boldon was a family man and taxi driver who hailed from Michigan and loved fast cars.

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The focus of autonomous vehicle research is on developing intelligent vehicles, or artificial intelligence for cars in some sense, while the focus of the blind driver challenge vehicle is developing methods to convey a vast amount of information to the driver through nonvisual means, fast enough and accurately enough for safe driving.

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Red Bull's Mark Webber was the first driver to have a crash, catching a bump going in too fast at Turn 18, the corner after the track comes out from under a grandstand, just a few minutes into the session.

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