As it became a commodity and was all about making cars accessible to everybody, it became more about standardization.
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Gaining access to OnStar subscribers is a big deal for RelayRides, which launched its service in Boston and San Francisco in 2010 and currently offers about 200 cars all together to about 6, 000 drivers in the two regions, said Shelby Clark, founder and chief community officer.
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Or, before getting all excited about electric cars, show me workable electric motorcycles first as proof-of-concept.
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If you ask his advisers about crime policy, for example, you will hear all about the breakthrough that computerised patrol cars imply for police productivity.
They are in homes, offices, cars and just about all gadgets.
Yet, while we all enjoy reading articles about new gizmos, electric cars, space-age wind turbines, and of course, the latest advances in photovoltaics, these advancements represent only the surface of a much larger, systemic change in the way we will soon conduct business.
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Car computers keep a record of the activities of all surrounding cars so they can quickly discard information about a car moving quickly in the opposite direction but track a car moving in the same direction around a corner and determine if it will soon be in the same lane as your own.
That growth, is from a very small base: the 23, 461 Volts sold last year represented only about a third of a percent of all new passenger cars sold in the United States.
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Others attacked him for indecency or for his cataloguing of the limitless particulars of modern life its diversity of people, its trolley cars, its technology: literature, after all, was about higher things and ought to be properly expressed.
Personal electric cars are still a far better option than personal hydrogen cars for all kinds of reasons, but if governments are serious about introducing electric transportation in place of oil, the creation of electrified mass passenger transport, e.g. trains and trams would be the better way to go.
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Without having to worry about distracted driving, electronics companies and app makers could outfit cars with all the distracting entertainment they wished and earn billions off the now-free time in self-driving cars.
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' Watching all those cars headed so purposely in one direction that was straight out of one of those thrillers about earthquakes or tidal waves or killer hurricanes.
Marshals are also to distribute information about night buses and private hire cars, to ensure members of the public are aware of all alternative routes home.
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