Not all of the engine's leaps of logic hit the mark, however.

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Sprung with double wishbones, coil springs and adaptive monotube dampers, the car offers a choice of three drive modes Tour, Sport and Track with escalating thresholds for the car's engine, transmission, suspension and stability logic.

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The Adaptive Wireless Engine, as it is called, is a device whose logic cells have been specifically designed to handle signal filtering, speech encoding, wireless communications protocols, and so on in other words, the sorts of things that mobile phones have to do.

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In simplistic terms, that user-friendly software did the same for logic engines what automatic transmissions, power steering and power brakes did to tame the internal combustion engine and launch the age of the automobile.

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In computing, the driver that determines how the engine is used is the character and elegance of the algorithms, not only the programming logic itself, but also the skill in creating that logic in the first place.

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