In the same month Volvo tested a self-drive convoy on a Spanish motorway.
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The self-drive car-rental business is in its infancy, although optimists believe this will change.
While self-drive cars are limited by law across the U.S., they are allowed with restrictions in California.
To keep some solid steel between yourself and where the wild things are, a range of cruises and self-drive trips are available.
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Toyota has given a taste of self-drive car safety technology ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week.
BBC: Toyota sneak previews self-drive car ahead of tech show
Google was awarded an autonomous car patent in 2011, and secured a Nevada driving licence for its self-drive car in May 2012.
BBC: Toyota sneak previews self-drive car ahead of tech show
But rather than trawling blindly through local farming regions, five self-drive touring trails have been created to make it easier than scoffing a plateful of fresh-picked British Columbia blueberries.
One simple statistic tells that tale: it costs nearly three times as much to rent a self-drive van for a one-way journey from Los Angeles to Houston as the other way around.
However, Tooru Futami, engineering director at electronics engineering development division at Nissan, told Forbes that the car was not yet able to self-drive down the street or park itself in any space.
It was an environment in which there were few limits on a child blessed with intelligence, self-assurance and drive.
With its clout at the grassroots, the RSS commands enormous influence over state policies, including economic ones like the intensely nationalistic swadeshi (self-reliance) drive.
Few are likely to accept that they are duty-bound to follow opinion polls, even if their instinct for self-preservation may drive them in that direction.
It's a safe bet that even if there were no pressure to reduce greenhouse gas-related emissions from buildings, today's efficiency ethos and sheer economic self-interest would drive interest in cutting building energy use.
Moreover, all of the performance metrics used by the quantified self movement are used to for behavior modification to drive self-improvement.
Several companies utilize the phenomenon of escalations of commitment and self-image shaping to drive customer engagement.
Self-determination helps to drive the search for new ways to deal with local needs.
But the ultimate goal is to create a world where self-aware vehicles can drive passengers around without hitting pedestrians or bumping into other vehicles.
Rather than offering a self-sufficient machine with a bulky hard drive and a bolted-on web browser, Google is pushing new operating system software and hardware, in the form of its Cr-48 laptop built to live online.
Though many activists were unhappy with Obama for failing to tackle the issue in his first term, he won 71% of the Latino vote in November against Republican challenger Mitt Romney -- who had said he would drive undocumented workers to "self-deportation" by making conditions so harsh for them that they left the United States.
There are plenty of things that matter more than competence, such as the ability to project drive and self-confidence.
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But, insurers appear to anticipate that at least some small groups particularly healthy ones will want to give the self-insured tactic a test drive, brokers and analysts said.
So last June, when America's Congress authorised Barack Obama to penalise foreign companies that sell petrol to Iran, the Iranians reacted by stepping up their drive for self-sufficiency.
For the small self-employed businessman road pricing will drive up his operating costs.
Here a magistrate judge ruled that producing the passphrase for the encrypted hard drive would constitute self-incrimination, but on appeal the District Court overturned that decision, holding that decrypting and producing the complete contents would not constitute self-incrimination since Boucher initially cooperated in showing some of the computer files to border agents.
In Sacramento, Stanford University's self-driving car hit 120 mph in a test drive, and in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Personal drive in this case is about self-control, the will and determination to master emotions, to turn away from the object of temptation.
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Audi and BMW have shown self-driving concept cars, and Audi had a TT drive itself up Pikes Peak.
If you like to eat in the company of the glitterati and you've got the bank balance to back you up, take your meat-loving self to Prime One Twelve (112 Ocean Drive).
By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people.
It is particularly associated with a dependence upon sexual activity, our most basic animal instinct, hence the reduction in the sex-drive and a return to a childlike, innocent self-awareness during recuperative states.
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