• The active lane keeping assist monitors the lines on the pavement in front of you and sends a vibration through the steering wheel if you start to drift out of your lane.

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  • Autonomous driving in slow traffic is a logical combination of adaptive cruise-control and the lane-keeping systems, already available in some vehicles, which either warn the driver if the car starts to drift out of lane, or apply corrective steering to keep it in lane.

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  • The weak signal can cause a ship's instruments to gradually drift out of true, without setting off any alarms, leaving the ship in a different position to where it "thinks" it is.

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  • Military pay and benefits were allowed to drift far out of alignment with civilian compensation rates, so much so that their skyrocketing costs endangered the viability of the All Volunteer Force.

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  • His height gives him an advantage, but still tends to drift in and out of games.

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  • After that, she began to drift in and out of consciousness.

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  • Tendency to tune out or drift away in the middle of a page or a conversation.

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  • Birds and certain smaller mammals such as rabbits and raccoons will usually go high to live in trees or on drift piles, but larger mammals have to clear out, according to Ribbeck.

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  • Instead, they are all too likely to let the system drift closer to the point at which the money runs out, then enact a series of emergency proposals -- and trust to luck.

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  • He suffered similar embarrassment during the 2002 World Cup when he allowed a Ronaldinho free-kick to drift over him as England slipped out of the finals after losing 2-1 to Brazil.

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  • As long as the country is in danger of leaving the euro, growth will continue to shrink, bail-out targets will be missed and politics will drift to extremes.

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  • To measure this drift in 2012, watch out for three things.

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  • The delay in sorting out the cajas adds to the sense of drift.

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  • Readers pointed out that continental drift is causing France to drift away from the United States, not toward it.

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  • When I sit out in the pasture, Lulu is usually the first to drift up behind me and rest her chin on the top of my head, waiting for her nose to be scratched.

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  • The cast includes Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Elias Koteas, John Savage, Woody Harrelson, George Clooney, and John Travolta, with strong performances from younger actors like Ben Chaplin and Jim Caviezel, but they all drift in and out of the action, never staying long enough to hold center stage.

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  • The drift of the coverage is that Samsung has taken the battle to Apple, and is out innovating Apple.

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  • The smoke that will drift out of the chapel's chimney early in the evening is likely to be black - meaning no pope has been elected.

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  • Despite being almost totally outplayed, Wigan did occasionally string a move together that ensured the United defence was not completely redundant, and Charles N'Zogbia missed a great chance to reduce the deficit when Won-Hee Cho's pass set him free in the box only for the winger to drift his shot wide, while Hugo Rodallega headed straight at Tomasz Kuszczak from six yards out.

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  • His out-of-the-(pizza)-box thinking caused the conversation to drift from tax to politics, and things seemed to quiet down a bit.

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  • The drift of Le Grand K relative to the others could be explained by the fact that it is taken out of its vault and handled less often than the other objects.

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  • He had a habit of ripping pages out once he had read them and stuffing them into his pocket or of letting them drift to the ground so as to lessen the freight.

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  • For GPS, this is an enormous issue because it turns out that the clocks on the satellites drift by almost 40, 000 nanoseconds per day relative to the clocks on the ground because they are high above the earth's surface (and therefore in a weaker gravitational field) and are moving fast relative to the ground.

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