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New Mercedes SLK 2011
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This is the new Mercedes-Benz SLK, and as you can quite clearly see, it has a new face.
This is the third generation of the baby Benz since the salon-favourite debuted in 1996. The face apes the new CLS revealed last year, giving it an injection of warmed bovine to separate it from its limp original. Merc reckons the new headlamps are reminiscent of the 190 SL from the 50s. They are not.
Google's robot cars
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This Saturday, Google took a break from challenging Apple to announce its latest strategy for world domination: Robot cars. The company has spent years developing vehicles equipped with "artificial-intelligence software that can sense anything near the car and mimic the decisions made by a human" — with the long-term goal of letting human drivers rely on their cars' wisdom, intervening only when necessary.
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