For example, parents simply buy their kid a car or computer rather than expecting that the kid work after school to save money for a car or computer.
Unsurprisingly, the potential blending of car and computer technology has strong support in Silicon Valley, which senses a lucrative new market just around the corner.
By registering the amount of friction between the tyre and the road, the system warns the car's computer-control equipment if the car is in danger of aquaplaning on a large puddle or skidding on ice.
Largely, girls train to be hairdressers and boys to be car mechanics and computer specialists.
Instead of tearing apart a carburetor or a transmission, Spetter plugs his laptop into the car's computer.
Most likely, you needed help--a knife and a spoon to eat your breakfast, a key to start your car, a computer to read these words.
Car makers, like computer firms, will stop at nothing in the search for sexy technologies to build into their products.
It's a hot commodity even to my old-fashioned granny who has never driven a car nor touched a computer in her life.
Eventually it gets too loud, so gamers replace fans with a water-cooling system--essentially a car radiator for their computer--which also enhances overall performance.
Noguchi leads regular cleaning trips with volunteers up Mount Fuji and has removed everything from a 27-inch television set and a computer monitor to car batteries.
Engineers working for car companies and using networked computer-aided design terminals still file their ideas directly to the server for the chief designer to approve rather than bouncing them around among colleagues for collective improvement.
For example, in your car there are between 50 and 100 computer systems filled with CPU chips that are all running software every time you start your car.
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Maher then lamented the expansion of technology to ordinary consumer goods, saying that his car window is stuck because the computer which controls it isn't working.
As with home and office computer hardware, in-car technology is rapidly getting cheaper, though it is still pricey.
An experimental section of road where an external computer can take over your car if you wish (and are suitably wired up) is now open in California to test the idea.
Now, not only is that bad in terms of people then not getting services and being less safe, or kids not -- having a larger class sizes or all those things, but obviously when those people lose their jobs they can't spend money buying a new car or buying clothes or buying the computer for their kids.
Drivers could order and pay in the McDonald's drive-through lane or synch a car's music system with a home computer.
For example vehicles are rarely hooked up to the internet or to remote servers, and therefore the computer processor already installed by the car manufacturer handles speech recognition.
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Its parent company, Pioneer Corporation, is a preeminent manufacturer of high-performance audio, video and computer equipment for the home, car and business markets and is celebrating 75 years of innovation in the consumer electronics industry.
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One consequence is that the mudslinging of the computer industry is spilling over into the car industry.
Then, as now, there was talk of a new era, with electricity and the motor car playing the role of the Internet and the computer.
For many, the Volt will be an electric car most of the time, though the onboard computer does tell the gas engine to drive the wheels now and then.
Ask the dealer whether a computer warranty check has been run on the car.
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Unusually for a car ferry, this ship would use three, massive computer-controlled sails to harness the maximum wind energy.
As such, the iWatch becomes very secure and could have more applications such as secured-building entry, secure computer or device access, or even secure car or home entry.
If you remember, that was when we created 23 million new jobs, we went from deficits to surplus, and folks at the top did well, too -- because when middle-class families have money in their pockets, they go out and buy that new car, or that new appliance, or that new computer for their kids, or they go out to a restaurant, or, heaven forbid, they take a vacation once in a while.
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Now, you bring your car to a service station, plug it in to a computer and the diagnostics show up immediately.
Its advanced engine-development centre, which opened this summer, hooks up an engine to a simulated computer model of an as-yet unbuilt prototype car, to see how well it performs.
They are the fingers and eyes and noses of the computer, bringing the world (be it a car crash, pressure in a fuel line, or light in a fiber-optic network) into the boxed, insular space that sits quietly on desktops.
Concocting an "in-car gaming system" that utilizes a GPS receiver, handheld computer, headphones, and a laptop in the trunk of the whip, the Backseat Playground would eventually turn real world "sights, attractions, and locations" into in-game characters and events for the lucky passenger(s).
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