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The Car of
the Future

Do you like to stay up late?

If you do, drowsiness makes you at high-risk for an automobile accident! In the car of the future, a gradual drift between lanes or heading off the road accidentally will cause your car to give you a warning that will wake up any drowsy driver. The fully automated car of the future is closer than you think.

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY:
OFF-ROAD RACING

What brings together the desert terrain in both Africa and Mexico? Beyond the jackrabbits, donkeys and sand, both countries host intense off-road races. Micron Technology’s CMOS Imagers and Lexar’s NAND Flash have brought the adrenaline and intense competitive spirit of off-road racing to a worldwide audience. Real-time experience of the Baja 1000 and the Dakar Rally have been captured to relay the grueling sport, the wide range of racing skill required, and the connection between the sport and the cultures of the hosting countries.

QUIZ

Recently a car whose driver had fallen asleep veered off the highway, plowed through a gas pump (which burst into flames), and into a convenience store narrowly missing several people. In the future, how can you protect yourself and others from an accident like this?

ANSWER

JOKE

Useful Conversions:

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1 bananosecond
Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds
10 cards: 1 decacards

Posted: April '08

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