As the anticipated time-to-impact decreases, CMS prepares the car for sudden braking by moving the brake pads nearer to the brake disks, and finally, when the system concludes that a collision is less than one second away, it starts to apply the brakes itself.

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Several news organizations jumped on a report from a little-known Web site called FTVLive.com, which claimed NBC executives had finally decided it would pull the plug on the once formidable star as early as March (after the Winter Olympics concludes).

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