For those who think we should only focus our effort in developing technologies for driverless cars, my thought is that even if you ride in an autonomous vehicle, you will want to -- and sometimes have to -- switch to "manual mode" from time to time.
Easy enough to do with your marketing materials, your web site and even your blogs, but if all else looks great and you show up for an appointment looking as if you put little thought into your appearance, all your marketing efforts might appear to be a bait-and-switch to a would-be lucrative prospect.
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Much of the avoided energy consumption will come from the switch to carbon-neutral district heating (rural households will switch from oil, natural gas, and electric heating to heat pumps and biomass burners).
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Outdoor gear retailer REI recently decided to replenish its base of PCs only once every five years instead of three years, thanks to a switch to flat-panel screens that last longer.
As Moore's Law (computing power of a chip doubles every 18 months) continues to unfold and as bandwidth capacity continues to explode, just-turn-on-the-switch, easy-to-use high-tech appliances for specific functions will proliferate.
Besides a clear disagreement with West Coast rapper Kreayshawn, Harry Winston looks to have decided to ditch the glam-world of high-end jewelry retail and switch to the down-and-dirty realm of the diamond mine.
Fidelity Growth Discovery (FDSVX) used to be Fidelity Discovery, a not particularly interesting offering until it got a new manager and shareholder-approved switch to a more growth-oriented posture in February.
Ferguson could employ a makeshift centre-half pairing of midfielders Michael Carrick and Darren Fletcher as he waits for his walking wounded to return to fitness, although he is reportedly trying to convince Evra to switch to centre-half.
Meanwhile, the banks themselves are doing their best to attract the proactive customer by offering incentives to switch - with a bit of a frenzy of offers introduced in January.
Former Wales scrum-half Rob Howley has been appointed part-time assistant to coach Warren Gatland, but will switch to a full-time role in May.
Musegaas believes Indian Point will have to either shut down or switch to closed-cycle cooling, which Entergy is challenging.
Once women began to work, typically part-time, and once employees began to switch jobs, defined-benefit schemes became inequitable.
It called on states with reactors burning high-enriched uranium to switch to the low-enriched sort.
So the new pricing policy strikes me as a non-story, and the decision to switch a no-brainer.
But he has played most of his professional rugby in Australia at full-back and his performances following the switch to fly-half brought much criticism in his direction.
If all cholesterol drugs were created equal, it would be a simple matter to encourage patients to switch to the less-expensive generic versions.
Reforms to the duty - often referred to as road tax - follow concerns that increased fuel efficiency could lead to a fall in revenue from it as motorists switch to more environmentally-friendly cars which qualify for lower rates.
After spending their 20s in high-intensity jobs, many women leave or switch to part-time work when they have children.
In the face of record deficits, ballooning entitlement costs and an indefinite war, the government plans to subsidize part of the analog-to-digital switch.
The chancellor looks set to use next week's Autumn Statement to switch some day-to-day spending to spending more on Britain's infrastructure - in the jargon moving some spending from current to capital projects.
But that could quickly change, thanks to improvements in emission control and America's recent switch to low-sulphur diesel.
The British cars were equipped with standard headlamps - but the only way of dipping them was to switch to non-standard fog lamps.
Rather than installing more kiosks all over the place to handle peak demand, it makes more sense to switch from airline-specific kiosks to shared ones, which can handle passengers from several airlines.
The return of Alex at centre-half seemed to do the trick in restoring confidence to the Chelsea ranks, while Paulo Ferreira's switch to right-back and Salomon Kalou's recall certainly helped the balance.
Ford long ago decided to reduce production of its top-selling Explorer SUV in anticipation that its customers might switch to its new car-based so-called crossover SUV, the Ford Freestyle.
If first-tier status is not met, the Rams lease would switch to year-to-year terms a decade ahead of schedule and the team would have the option to leave St.
The Localism Act will require the 12 biggest cities in England to hold referenda to consider a switch to elected executive Mayors - the result could be a Boris-type figure in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Coventry, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham, Sheffield and Wakefield .
Further, consumers will start to replace its aging fleet and switch to more fuel-efficient cars.
The agency plans to point to a study showing that about seven in 10 Americans support the switch to five-day delivery.
To investigate what impact a forced switch to a low-lipid regime might have on the development of red-legged kittiwakes, the Kitaysky lab designed experiments to explore the effects of various diets.
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