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Darwin's blade
Darwin Minor is an expert in accident reconstruction, but a series of seemingly random, or artfully staged, fatal car wrecks has him puzzled. Why would anyone commit fraud at the cost of his own life?
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Machines without principals: liability rules and artificial intelligence
The idea that humans could, at some point, develop machines that actually \"think\" for themselves and act autonomously has been embedded in their literature and culture since the beginning of civilization. But these ideas were generally thought to be religious expressions -- what one scholar describes as an effort to forge their own Gods -- or pure science fiction. One vision was uncritically Utopian. Intelligent machines, this account goes, would transform and enlighten society by performing the mundane, mind-numbing work that keeps humans from pursuing higher intellectual, spiritual, and artistic callings. The introduction of highly sophisticated autonomous machines may be literally around the corner. How the law chooses to treat machines without principals will be the central legal question that accompanies the introduction of truly autonomous machines, and at some point, the law will need to have an answer to that question.
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Signal fires
\"Late on a summer night in 1985, three teenagers are in a tragic car crash on the quiet, suburban Division Avenue. A girl is killed, and Theo and Sarah Wilf are left with a devastating secret that will haunt their family forever. By the time the Shenkmans move in across the street, the accident has faded into the past, but secrets haunt both families and cause them to become intimately intertwined. When Waldo Shenkman, a brilliant but lonely child, befriends Ben Wilf, who is struggling with his wife's decline from Alzheimer's, he once again entangles the families' fates and sets in motion the spellbinding, unforgettable climax\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Are we ready to ride autonomous vehicles? A pilot study on austrian consumers' perspective
Automotive manufacturers are competing to be the first to introduce customer-ready autonomous vehicles. Some manufacturers are claiming to launch their first self-driving cars as early as 2020. Which all sounds very good and futuristic; however, the question arises, are customers even ready to adopt this new technological advancement? Therefore, this pilot study is aimed at finding out the answer to this question in the Austrian market. This study discovers the standpoint of Austrian consumers concerning the acceptance of self-driving cars for daily usage and gives an overview of the current point of view regarding autonomous vehicles (AVs). The data for this study was collected using an online, user-friendly, Likert scale survey. The collected data were processed and analyzed for empirical significance in SPSS using Spearman's rank correlation and the Mann-Whitney U test supported by descriptive analysis. The results of the study indicate that Austrian consumers are well aware of autonomous vehicles and their technology. However, they have specific concerns about reliability, cybersecurity, and futuristic car-sharing models. Therefore, these concerns about AVs should be addressed by auto manufactures in order to gain consumers' trust and sell them a new form of mobility.
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The sky above the roof : a novel
\"One night, seventeen-year-old Wolf steals his mother's car and drives six hundred kilometers in search of his sister, who left home ten years ago. Unlicensed and on edge, he veers onto the wrong side of the road and causes an accident. He is arrested and incarcerated, forcing his mother and sister to reconnect and pick up the pieces in order to fight for his release\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Who killed Cock Robin
In this delicately scripted gut-wrenching psycho-thriller from award-winning filmmaker Cheng Wei-Hao (The Tag-Along), an ambitious journalist who witnessed a hit-and-run years ago reboots his investigation led by newly emerged clues. As he beats the clock to save the only survivor after her sudden disappearance, layers of unimaginable dark truths around a corrupted system start peeling.
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Come and get us
\"Miranda Cooper's life takes a terrifying turn when an SUV deliberately runs her and her husband off a desolate Arizona road. With her husband badly wounded, she must run for help alone as his cryptic parting words echo in her head: 'Be careful who you trust'\"--Amazon.com.
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The Juansons
When the last passenger disembarks, the minibus pulls back onto the highway, leaving behind a thick finger of dust that gradually shifts north in the hot air. They also walk north, away from the highway, through mangy scrubland that has forgotten even the concept of rain. The sweat on their exposed skin glistens like pool water as they move...
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The Hemingways and Massachusetts
This note explores the Hemingway and Hall family connections to Massachusetts. After a discussion of Grace Hall Hemingway's childhood visits to Nantucket, the argument examines the trip Hemingway took to Massachusetts with his mother when he was eleven years old in 1910 (the voyage was a rite of passage for all the Hemingway children when they turned eleven). This journey influenced Hemingway's earliest surviving piece of fiction, \"My First Sea Vogue.\"
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