The momentum is gaining for autonomous vehicles to become a common form of transportation, even as the debate about their safety and utility continues on.

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Like many visitors today, they arrived by boat, though flights are the most common mode of transportation, and vital for supplying the few businesses and 3, 000 or so residents of the islands.

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Other common reasons included public transportation, wardrobe issues or dealing with pets.

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Notes from the Shuttle, for instance, is named not for a common urban mode of transportation but for its more extreme NASA counterpart.

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"The incidents on which the charges are based occurred years ago and involved the transportation and disposal of common consumer products, " the retailer said in a statement.

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Apple has been chasing NFC patents for years, but it's just now been granted a US patent for its own approach to a transportation check-in -- one of the most common uses of the technology in the real world.

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"Pickpocketing on public transportation, in shopping areas and at tourist sites is quite common, " the report said.

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That's not a Democratic idea or a Republican idea--it's a common-sense idea: Investments that create, maintain, or expand transportation networks create construction jobs even as they promote economic activity.

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