Auto accidents, Car accidents, Truck accidents, Motorcycle accidents are all happening around us. We try to drive our vehicles as carefully as possible but it is always the other drivers' that we have to worry about - right?
How else can we cope with the potential of an accident. Being aware of everything around you when you drive and not be distracted by cell phones, dvd players, gps systems etc. Of, course its easy for me to say all of this, but you know that what I'm writing is true.
Get rid of the distraction and the concentratoin is more on driving, and then being able to deal more speedily with the other driver's bad driving.
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A robot developed by roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania is made of modules that can recognise each other.
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In the latest installment of NY1's two-week series looking at technology in Japan, Techno Tokyo, we meet the bionic man...sort of. Tech Beat Reporter Adam Balkin explains
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This robot steers clear of obstacles thanks to a pile of rat brain cells.
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