The software in the four-seater Piper Warrior light plane will allow Mr Cunningham to receive constant updates on the plane's height, position and speed at the touch of a button.
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Each car starts with a certain position and speed, and the road thus has a particular density of cars that changes as they move along, and as new cars are injected from a junction slip-road.
As satellite-based GPS becomes more ubiquitous in cell phones, the idea is that by figuring out the position and speed of a person's cell phone as it travels in a moving car, traffic data could be made available faster, cheaper, and in areas where it's hard to measure, like on rural roads or city streets, for example.
How do you like the notion that someone somewhere always has the position (and speed) of your car logged?
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Caine and colleagues are currently pioneering new tracking devices for swimmers, which employ body-mounted gyroscopes and accelerometers in tandem with cameras and sensors around the pool to monitor body position, acceleration, speed and power.
That is, getting in and out of a position cannot be accomplished with speed and efficiency.
The information is now crowdsourced, meaning Apple will judge traffic by looking at your speed and position (not to mention, millions of other commuters with iPhones).
Using the footage and the location of an impact into Lake Chebarkul, Jorge Zuluaga and Ignacio Ferrin, from the University of Antioquia in Medellin were able to use simple trigonometry to calculate the height, speed and position of the rock as it fell to Earth.
Time for the front office to add some youthful energy to that aging defense, and add some skill position speed.
Beginning in the 2013 season, all 19 MLS clubs will use the data-tracking technology from adidas, providing coaches, trainers and players with real-time performance metrics including heart rate, speed, acceleration, distance, field position and, for the first time, power.
When a call comes in, the program looks at the position, speed, time of day and even the weather to calculate the chances that the driver will stop soon.
Both the Edge 810 and 510 accurately track speed, distance, time, GPS position, elevation, calories burned, climb and descent.
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The Hornet would be the first Chinese-made car sold by a big automaker in the U.S. "It allows us some speed to market and to position Chrysler where we might have a product void, " Nardelli said on Aug. 6, his first day on the job.
The plates change size and position over time, moving at speeds of between 1cm and 10cm every year - about the speed at which fingernails grow.
Naturally, change within any industry takes time, but now that Sprint is in a position to offer unlimited data at a meaningful speed and T-Mobile has climbed aboard the bandwagon, Verizon may have to change its tune if a significant number of consumers decide that unlimited isn't dead after all.
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Seat belts could, in the 100 milliseconds of a crash, avoid breaking an old lady's ribs by calibrating how much force to apply to a body after gathering sensor data on the car's speed and deceleration and the weight and position of the occupant.
Creative Destruction at Warp Speed The position of the old American telephone companies today is much like IBM's and DEC's in the mid-1980s.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today the launch of the Chicago Broadband Challenge, a unique initiative that will engage the public to secure Chicago's position as one of the digital capitals of the country and the city with the greatest availability of ultra-high-speed broadband in the United States.
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