As the spring and summer driving seasons gear up, the debate is bound to get hotter.
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Just today, Life Technologies announced that it is expects to increase the speed of its smaller, cheaper DNA 10-fold in just six months, illustrating how a war between makers of DNA-sequencing gear is driving the science behind this type of research.
Despite never running out of charge, I now understand the car's real-world range (worst case: about 210 miles with three passengers plus camera gear, driving on and off the highway on a below-freezing day) and, rather than getting stranded by the road, I spent four productive days with the car getting a solid feel for it.
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But much of its potential is being wasted: it's as if we are driving a Ferrari in second gear.
As he reached the brow of the hill, Ramshaw said he had just gone into fourth gear but was not driving fast.
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They also do a good job of replicating the sitdown feeling of driving, complete with the working gear shift, pedals and steering wheel.
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As such, it's a lot like driving a manual transmission stuck in second gear and using engine braking to slow down.
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Google certainly has pockets deep enough to trick out self-driving cars with any kind of pricey gear, but researchers at the University of Oxford have begun testing a solution that aims to keep things affordable.
But one PlayStation-only game released in June, Metal Gear Solid 4, has been driving sales of the machine.
She said that driving a qualifying lap at Daytona -- where drivers shift gears three times then run the engine in its highest gear -- was 90% crew preparation and 10% driver.
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