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Mayor Bill de Blasio is considering a controversial idea to tackle the controversial issue of bare breasts in Times Square — opening up the area's pedestrian plaza to car traffic again.

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The below post tells us how tech in cars can make us safer and make us all love driving again... even in Chicago traffic.

Following a car accident, for example, it is difficult to manage street traffic once again — even screeching tires can evoke significant anxiety.

Every time you are in traffic, you do a lot of stops and starts and it takes a whole lot of energy for your car to get moving again.

The reason why I'm seeing this car again is because of a CEL that manifests itself intermittently when coming to a stop at a traffic light:

Higher speeds you feel it in the Model S so you back off and the re-gen slows you down quickly ready for the next blast... M5, 3 seconds of Raw fun, stupids speeds arrive and then 20 seconds of coasting and nail biting before you slow down back to legal speeds... 3 seconds of fun and 20 seconds of fear... too quick and without re-gen you are just standing on those very expensive disks and pads... Honestly in todays traffic Model S far better and if you must, buy a lotus for the weekend B road blast... Also with all the sound insulation in the M5 you can't hear the engine until silly speeds... so again Model S.... My friend said don't you miss the V8 noise and my other friend sat in the car said its a bit like missing the clip clop of your horse at the advent of the Model T...

Active cruise control uses radar to maintain a pre-selected distance from the vehicle ahead (at speeds up to 130 mph) and, in stop and go traffic, can automatically brake the car to a standstill and then accelerate again when the front vehicle starts moving again.

Comprised of various sensors and cameras, it incorporates adaptive (radar) cruise control to brake and accelerate the car automatically and now features a gridlock mode that can stop the car completely then take off again in slow moving traffic.

Distronic Plus safely brings the car to a full stop if needed, and all it takes to return to the previously set speed when traffic starts moving again is a gentle tap of the gas pedal.

Once traffic restarts, the car will resume driving again automatically.

I also took note of the car's killer adaptive - cruise - control system — now my best in the business for its stunning ability to «read» traffic flow and not overreact with sudden braking, to hold a tight gap, to respond fairly quickly with acceleration when space opens up, and to be able to sit for a long period in stopped traffic and then pick up again with a merely tap of the accelerator pedal.

The safety devices that were offered as extras included a system that warned by vibrating the steering wheel when the car showed a tendency to drift towards another lane and Active Cruise Control could be set to maintain a pre-defined time gap from a car in front, reducing speed to a complete halt if necessary; that even re-started and accelerated to the pre-programmed speed as soon the traffic began to move again.

In high - speed and heavy traffic on Pacific Coast Highway, the adaptive cruise control brought the Eclipse Cross to a smooth stop behind the lead car, and a simple tap on the gas got it going again.

Using the satellite navigation data and the car's inbuilt camera systems, the stop / start can be intelligently controlled to identify situations in which it is better not to switch off the engine: for example when stopping briefly before making a turn or entering a roundabout, or if the traffic ahead has started moving again.

The car will be the first Ford with an adaptive cruise control that features stop - and - go functionality, literally slowing the car to a full stop if traffic ahead comes to a halt, and resuming at the set speed as it picks up again.

«I am absolutely convinced that once fully autonomous vehicles are established, the more people will appreciate driving on a road free of traffic and enjoy driving their car again,» Wester told Autocar.

With Traffic Jam Assist activated, I was pleased to find that the sedan effectively drives itself from 0 to 37 mph, even bringing itself to a complete stop and setting off again if the car ahead moves within three seconds.

When it comes to driver assistance and semi-automated driving, all the systems currently offered by BMW are available, such as Active Cruise Control (ACC), whose capabilities include braking the car to a halt in stop - and - go traffic and automatically pulling away again.

The car accelerates automatically once the traffic starts moving again.

If traffic restarts, the car will resume driving when the driver touches the switch again or lightly presses the accelerator to activate ProPILOT.

The car's crawl function in traffic has been extended, so the car will brake to a complete stop in jams and will move off again on stops of up to 30 seconds.

This year's new SL Platinum Package adds adaptive cruise control plus the company's ProPilot Assist system that can bring the Rogue to a complete stop and then start it up again in traffic while keeping a set distance from the car ahead.

Active roll stabilization; electronic damper control; four - wheel steering; eight - speed transmission; a new twin - scroll, single - turbo 3.0 - liter in - line six putting out 300 horsepower and 300 pound - feet of torque (or a twin - turbo 4.4 - liter V - 8 with 400 hp, in the 550i); new robotic parking assistance; head - up display; night vision; stop - and - go adaptive cruise control, which will maintain a following distance in traffic and slow to a stop, then start rolling again, just like traffic on the 405; and roughly 8 million other acronymic systems, gadgets, gizmos and flight surfaces loomed to the car's high - speed cerebellum.

How would it feels like to know that you would never have to wake up early again to grab a fast coffee, run into your car to hit traffic jams until you reach your work post and act like a zombie repeating the same tasks over and over again day after day?

You've always been able to hack whilst out driving in order to bring destruction to the streets around you and cause havoc with traffic lights, but yet again Watch Dogs 2 takes it a little bit further by allowing you to actually hack cars themselves and send them out of your way as you're racing down the roads of San Francisco.

This collision forced their car into oncoming traffic where it was struck again by another car that was going east.

Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for US teens, and recent data implies that, after declining for several years, teen deaths caused by car crashes are rising again.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.