This includes high speed racing, performing hand brake turns in car parks, or off-road riding on motorbikes.

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Cars that can "see" the road, sense potential dangers and steer, brake and control speed automatically could ease the drudgery of stop-and-go traffic or long drives, and prevent many accidents caused by drowsy, inattentive or impaired drivers.

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He argues that with antilock brake and stability systems, 100 percent reliability is possible because they merely survey signals from within the car: wheel speed, pressure applied to the brake pedal, and so on.

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His client's decision to trigger the emergency brake lowered the train's speed to 45 miles per hour from 73 mph and likely saved lives, Mr. Cahill said.

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One possible use of this technology is to provide context information from the car, something like the engine speed has reached 2000 rpm, the parking brake has been disengaged, the transmission gear is in drive and the brake pedal is fully off the floor.

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Safety charity Brake said there was no longer an "incentive not to speed".

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The lack of high-speed rail, and the congestion on the east and west coast lines that we already have, are a brake on spreading growth.

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