The fine-grained control that the command software enables combined with a design that is more electrical than mechanical creates enormous flexibility in how the different systems can be coordinated.

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Court papers showed he denied a charge of careless driving at Lochgreen Road that day, losing control of his car, causing it to collide with and damage an electrical box and a fence.

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These, he says, are 1, 500 times better than existing sensors at detecting hydrogen. (The gas combines with the tubes, changing their electrical properties.) Hydrogen detection is used to help control certain processes in industrial food production, for tweaking fuel combustion in car engines, and in monitoring certain bacterial infections.

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