For example, a car could gently increase the gas-pedal spring pressure when the speed is too high -- the navigation system knows how tight that upcoming curve is, remember -- or apply a light twist to the steering wheel if the car is drifting off course.

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On the inside: My luxury package afforded me leather-trimmed bucket seats, a heated and cooled cup holder (appreciated in the heat) and a wood-leather wrapped steering wheel packaged in two-tone dark frost beige and light frost beige.

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Stereolithography works by steering laser beams through a photosensitive liquid that solidifies when it is exposed to enough light.

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Each mirror acts as a beam-steering device, controlling whether a single picture element (pixel) in the image is light or dark.

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None of this is too light, by the way: At speed you get effort and feel back in the steering wheel, and gearshifts can be executed quickly.

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When the sense of alarm she had been holding so coolly at bay suddenly broke through, she made a lightning assessment of the oncoming traffic and with a breathtaking lack of deliberation jerked her steering wheel to the left and whipped past the Range Rover as she made a left turn against the light.

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