Its features will include automatic transmission, parking and navigation aids and a jack for changing tyres without getting grease on your chador.

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Like Renault, developers and start-up businesses are actively exploring technologies and services that address the problems associated with automotive mobility (navigation aids, infomobility applications, in-car entertainment, etc.).

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While the pilots should have been able to use visual references and navigation aids at the airport to judge if they were descending too quickly, reduced visibility from a burst of rain could have made landing more difficult, experts said.

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In the Lords (from 2.30pm) it's quite a heavy legislating day - but first, there's an eclectic selection of questions to ministers, with peers asking about cultural diversity in the media and creative industries, progress in discontinuing funding for the Republic of Ireland's aids to navigation, discussions with energy providers about recent price increases and the shortage of midwives.

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Steady advances in automation and robotics are now invisibly encapsulated in navigation, weather avoidance, traffic management, flight controls, safety and communications aids that materially benefit the two-pilot front cabin.

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