Curbing the number of car journeys is only one way to reduce congestion.

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Instead it gets to spread its payments over the life of the contract, in much the same way as one might lease rather than buy a car.

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But car entertainment and communication is mostly one-way, and the upstream is mostly narrowband and not sensitive to latency.

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She sublet her Birmingham apartment, gave her car to her brother and bought a one-way ticket to Seattle.

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Now it is the German car that is one in four not the other way around.

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But no one can say which way she went or whether she got into a car.

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Still, we were disappointed that there's no way to change from one app to the next via the in-car interface.

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One time a grimacing woman leaned on her horn the whole way as she inched her car across a crowded intersection.

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Dad managed to get all the way out here without saying one thing about the terrible music you were playing on the car radio.

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Isn't it telling that one of today's most eagerly anticipated technologies is a self-driving car, now on its way to being rolled out by Google?

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"The way I see flowers in relation to Dior is the way you see black in relation to Yohji Yamamoto, " says Simons on the phone from his car one evening, traveling from his home in Antwerp back to Paris after a long Easter weekend.

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