This glacial rate of advance might give us time to settle some of the arguments that have begun to brew over the limits of driver-assist technologies -- the point at which the car, having sniffed out a veritable wealth of information about the world around it, switches (perhaps unbidden) to autopilot.

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The Racing for Holland team had been on course for third until just past the midway point, when Malaysia's former F1 driver Alex Yoong crashed his Dome-Judd into the barriers after his throttle stuck open.

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Vitantonio Liuzzi earned two points for the Mercedes-powered Force India team with ninth, and former Brawn driver Rubens Barrichello took the final point with 10th on debut for Williams.

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The Citroen driver's success, the 51st of his career, sees him open up a 10-point lead over Ford's Mikko Hirvonen at the top of the drivers' standings and it is becoming difficult to see how any of his rivals can stop him marching to a sixth successive world title.

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Though still best known as an Oscar-nominated actress who's made films such as Good Will Hunting, GoldenEye and Grosse Point Blank, Minnie Driver continues to make inroads as a musician, developing a pop-folk style similar to that of Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen.

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