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Unions Cringe as Apple Joins Rush for Driverless Vehicle Road Test

The 15 miles that separate Apple and Stanford University now have tech centers for 11 car makers, if you include Apple and Google. Although each company is spending spectacular amounts of money on developing driverless cars, Apple may be about to take the lead by being the first company to gain the state’s DMV permission to test artificial intelligence cars on public roadways.

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New Ford Auto Will Force European Drivers To Obey Speed Limit

Engadget’s description of the new Ford S-Max car and its Intelligent Speed Limiter technology is both fascinating and creepy as hell: “A camera mounted on the windshield scans the road signs on the sides of the highway and, when the vehicle enters a 20mph zone, the system reduces the top speed to match. Rather than controlling the speed with automatic braking, the car limits its own velocity by adjusting the amount of fuel being pushed to the engine.”