Watch the world's first ever commercial spacecraft to visit the International Space Station make its journey from the comfort of your chair, train or car ride -- whatever, just as long as it's not you driving.

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Instead of drinking stale coffee from a Styrofoam cup while leaning over a salesman's desk, the Maybach customer relaxes in a rich leather chair and sips from a china cup as his virtual car comes to life on a flat plasma screen.

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Instead of drinking stale coffee from a Styrofoam cup while leaning over a salesman's desk, the Maybach customer relaxes in a rich leather chair and sips from a china cup as his virtual car comes to life on a 50-inch flat plasma screen.

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Peter Cox, chair of the society, said that if current trends of car usage in Cardiff continued, by 2026 the city's roads would be gridlocked.

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When he has decided what his objective is, normally with a food orientation, but also for possession of a chair, cushion or the window to be opened in the car, he, like any good negotiator from the Bolshevik school, simply wears you down by never going away and reminding you continually of his presence.

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After a car crash in 1990 which left him partially paralysed and in a wheel chair, Achebe moved to live in the US - only returning to Nigeria infrequently.

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Mary (whose car, a big white boat of a vehicle, was named Floyd) had an egg-shaped chair in her basement that had speakers built into it.

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