Both driving these health systems to borrow more now than in the past.
Across the land, collections are being taken for those who have lost everything, vans with PA systems driving around calling on people to give what they can.
In many product areas, a combination of fiercer competition, more transparency and the introduction of electronic systems is driving down margins.
We ask our navigation systems for driving routes, we ask Hipmunk for recommendations on the next vacation, we ask Amazon to find us the best bargain, and we ask Siri anything we like.
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No way does this feel like driving a hybrid, especially in its Sport and Sport Plus modes, which optimize the engine, transmission and other systems for spirited driving.
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That technology is getting cheaper, the data are getting more reliable, and some car companies are starting to offer insurers access to their onboard-telematics systems to harvest driving information to tailor insurance premiums to an individual's behavior.
When you need to keep raising money to build out these expensive systems the logic of driving stock prices down surely escapes me.
Power Outages - Map of Estimated CostsElectricity is the critical enabler for the provision of information and logistical services and systems, which are driving productivity growth in nearly every corner of the service economy.
Wherever we live we need to feel connected to the oceans, as they are our umbilical cord to life, driving the world's weather systems, ensuring we can take our next sip of water and our next breath.
This incremental step is an important one in providing transparency and driving results for improving the security of federal systems and information.
While most people would welcome measures that assist motorists to make wiser decisions, systems that actively intervene in the driving process cause more controversy.
The defense acquisition process in itself is notoriously burdensome and costly, often driving the costs and time to deployment of weapon systems up exponentially.
Although manufacturers and experts are careful to point out that these systems can't undo every fool-hearty driving maneuver, they can, at least, prevent a slight misjudgement from becoming an automatic disaster.
In offering Android for free, while competitors Apple and Microsoft keep their systems exclusive or charge for licenses, Google is driving Android growth charitably and without veering far from its search business.
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The new body monitors could, if a driving hazard appeared imminent, trigger the car's safety systems to tap the brakes, turn off a radio, block a cellphone from ringing or take other actions.
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In fact, the next generation of automotive technology may employ automatic steering and braking systems that relieve drivers of much of the responsibility for, well, driving.
They have also made possible the development of totally integrated power systems, which make energy fungible: instead of having one engine dedicated to driving the ship and another one devoted to generating shipboard power, electricity from multiple sources can simply be routed to wherever it is needed at the time.
But greater Dhaka has become one of the world's most populous and fastest-growing megacities, driving up the price of land and straining the country's electrical, power and gas systems.
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It provides just the right amount of resistance and effort for spirited driving, but falls a bit short in terms of feedback, like many other modern electronic steering systems.
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Autonomous driving in slow traffic is a logical combination of adaptive cruise-control and the lane-keeping systems, already available in some vehicles, which either warn the driver if the car starts to drift out of lane, or apply corrective steering to keep it in lane.
However, the NHTSA said that in later phases it might issue further guidelines on the use of "devices or systems that are not built into the vehicle but are brought into the vehicle and used while driving".
Besides improving traffic reporting, the information that the systems glean can also help to route traffic, assist town planners and fine-tune future assistive driving technologies.
It cites graduated driver licensing systems in which teens' abilities to drive are expanded over time from the initial stages, when driving is restricted to low-risk conditions.
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