While the enhanced system is just a prototype without a commercialization schedule, it already slots into just about any car, including the University's own intelligent car prototype (not pictured here).

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Bagehot recently met an intelligent Midlands car-dealer who believed that a Labour government planned his instant bankruptcy by importing German labour costs into Britain.

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Our vision is a car equipped with an intelligent, always-attentive co-pilot whose skills contribute to safer driving.

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Try this thought experiment: Your smarty-pants car is fitted with something called intelligent speed adaptation.

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Shot with clean, vivid quality, the mood of the series is fresh and vibrant an intelligent conversation about culture, futurism and mobility with BMW serving as the representative of the car world.

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But I highly doubt this intelligent and respected leader is suggesting that we all turn our backs the next time a car bomb detonates, a suicide bomber explodes or a gunman opens fire in a crowded theater or house of worship.

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Pandora has long been the poster child of in-car compatibility, able to run on nearly every smart car platform known to man -- even quite a few that could only be called moderately intelligent.

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