Mercedes-Benz USA has a testimonial video from a Google executive who was one of the first American customers to avoid a real-life collision because his car stopped without him even noticing the car ahead.

FORBES: Cars That Can Drive Themselves Are Still A Ways Off; Cars That Can Stop Themselves Are Already On Sale

Meanwhile, Ulupinar -- whose wife runs a cemetery garden business -- says the idea came to him after noticing a mix of Schalke pennants, flags, season tickets, player photos and blue-and-white flowers were already decorating hundreds of gravestones in the western city of Gelsenkirchen.

CNN: November 13, 2012 -- Updated 1234 GMT (2034 HKT)

He piped the advancing troops along the raised road by the Caen canal, seeing the flashes from the rifle of a sniper about 100 yards ahead, noticing only after a minute or so that everyone behind him had hit the deck in the dust.

ECONOMIST: Bill Millin

Noticing the circadian pattern of Charles B's depression, Dr Wehr asked him to get through a night without sleeping, and then to increase his nightly sleep only gradually, so that for almost a week he was awake during those crucial early-morning hours.

ECONOMIST: People, like all living things, are four dimensional