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Smart headlights are under development that reduce glare from falling rain and snow, making driving in nasty weather a bit less stressful.
The system uses a digital projector to illuminate raindrops at the top of the field of view for a few milliseconds as a processor predicts their path and switch off light rays that would normally hit the drops.
The result is a slightly dimmer headlight, but one that blocks out so?much glare from falling rain and snow that visibility improves.
The entire process from capture to reaction takes 13 milliseconds, explains Carnegie Mellon University?s Illumination and Imaging lab where proof-of-concept headlights have been tested.
While the lab prototype demonstrates the feasibility of the system, it will be a while before our cars come equipped with the technology.?
For example, the team needs to get the system working in a moving vehicle in the real world as well make their prediction algorithm robust to the effect of wind on rain and snow.?
Then, the team technology must be scaled up for cost-effective integration with cars ? something the researchers believe is possible with cutting-edge LED technology.
For more details on the project, check out the team?s lab page and this paper presented at the IEEE Conference on Computational Photography.
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Posted on: 9:58 pm, July 4, 2012, by Doris Taylor, updated on: 10:32pm, July 4, 2012
(CNN) ? Republican Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois on Wednesday stood by earlier comments questioning his congressional opponent, an Iraq war veteran and double-amputee, for speaking too much about her military service.
?She is a hero, and that demands our respect, but it doesn?t demand our vote. All she does, guys, is talk about her service,? Walsh said on CNN?s ?The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.?
He contended that his rival, Democrat Tammy Duckworth, rarely makes campaign appearances, but when she does hit the trail, she primarily focuses on her background fighting overseas.
A Black Hawk helicopter pilot in Iraq, Duckworth lost both legs and the use of one arm when her crew was shot down in 2004. She was later awarded the Purple Heart and continues to serve as a lieutenant colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard.
In his original remarks on Sunday, Walsh lauded Sen. John McCain?s modesty in talking about his well-known background as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. Walsh said McCain?s 2008 Republican presidential advisers repeatedly pushed the senator to talk more about his story, but he was strongly reluctant to make that a focus of his campaign.
?That?s what?s so noble about our heroes. Now I?m running against a woman who, my God, that?s all she talks about,? Walsh said. ?Our true heroes, it?s the last thing in the world they talk about. That?s why we?re so indebted and in awe of what they?ve done.?
His comments soon generated buzz online, prompting several groups, including VoteVets.org and Emily?s List, an organization dedicated to helping Democratic women get elected to office, to condemn the congressman?s remarks.
Walsh, elected in 2010 with wide support from the tea party, reiterated Wednesday that he believes Duckworth is a hero but she gives voters a narrow window into her positions on the issues.
?I continue to salute her service, but if that?s all she runs on, voters are going to find that offensive,? he said.
He called into question the very notion that she would discuss her military background, saying ?veterans don?t talk about their service? and choose to be ?private about it.?
When pressed by Blitzer, who said a lot of veterans are proud to discuss their background, Walsh brought up McCain again as an example of one who tends to be more reserved.
?They don?t throw it in your face,? he said. ?They at least can move beyond that and tell you why they want to be a congressman or woman.?
Duckworth?s campaign responded to his original comments on Tuesday, calling the comments an ?insult.?
?This week we celebrate our country?s founding and we are grateful for the courage and service of all of our military men and women throughout our nation?s history. Congressman Walsh?s comments insult those who sacrificed to make this country free. Tammy is proud of her over twenty years of service with the Army and her family?s legacy of fighting for this country. We can?t recognize our servicemen and women enough and ask that we keep them in our thoughts during this holiday week,? campaign manager Kaitlin Fahey said Tuesday in a statement.
Duckworth, herself, said during a Tuesday interview with MSNBC that Walsh was using the attack for his own political gain and called him an ?extremist loudmouth for the tea party.?
This election year marks her second run for Congress. The Iraq war veteran made an unsuccessful House bid in 2006, prior to being tapped by President Barack Obama in 2009 to become the assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs.
The two candidates are fighting for a seat representing the new 8th Congressional District located outside of Chicago and created by the state?s recent redistricting process.
Source: http://wtkr.com/2012/07/04/walsh-says-opponent-talks-too-much-about-military-service/
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'I invite speculation,' director Marc Webb teases about the big Easter egg at the end of 'Amazing Spider-Man.'
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Pe?a Nieto's win restores power to the PRI, which long held an authoritarian grip on Mexico before being ousted 12 years ago. But more than a decade of democracy has changed things.
Mexico's President-elect Enrique Pe?a Nieto meets with the foreign press in Mexico City on Monday, July 2.
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Enlarge PhotosEnrique Pe?a Nieto of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is the clear victor in?the nation's?presidential race. But the candidate, of the historic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), won with a much smaller mandate than pollsters had anticipated.
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With 94 percent of votes counted, he has about a six-point margin.?Surveys had him anywhere from 10 to 15 points ahead of his nearest rival, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
?Now Mr. Lopez Obrador, the leftist who famously led a six-week sit-in in downtown Mexico City?to contest the razor-thin defeat in his first presidential bid in 2006, is saying he won't concede defeat.
?No one expects another unpopular protest, but he has said he is waiting until the absolute final results are in to make a statement ? even though Mexican President Felipe Calderon has congratulated Mr. Pe?a Nieto and the National Action Party (PAN) candidate, Josefina Vazquez Mota, promptly stepped down.
For Mexicans worried about what the return of the PRI means for Mexico's democracy, after the PRI ran the country for 71 years as a single party and with an authoritarian grip, this is a welcome sign that Pe?a Nieto won't have an entirely free rein. It is?also unclear that he will have a working majority in Congress, which means the party will have to negotiate hard with the others to push through tough reforms that Pe?a Nieto promised and that Mexico desperately needs.
But there are other reasons that fears should be allayed, say analysts. Mexican voters?shared various opinions about what a PRI ?comback? means, after they were voted out of office in 2000. Some believe the party, with its youthful candidate, has changed; some don't believe in any political class but think the PRI is the best that they've got.
Most Mexicans, however, appear willing to trust their democracy: They might not be sure what the PRI will do once it's in office again, but they do believe that in the 12 years since it has been out, society has changed in dramatic ways. The president no longer holds vast powers. With the opening of its economy, Mexico has also had to open its political system. And from a stronger federal electoral institute to the presence of influential civil society organizations, there is no way the party can get up to its old antics, they say.
?You have more counterbalances,?says Maureen Meyer, Mexico analyst with the?Washington Office on Latin America. ?You have a civil society that has been building its influence. You have stronger political parties in general.?
The PRI ?won?t be able to go back to business as usual,? she adds.
One of the biggest sources of power for the PRI came from its ability to control the vote. In 1988, the party was widely accused of having rigged the elections, after a leftist candidate was coming out front. But in the wake of the outcry the government began the process of overhauling its electoral system, reforms that were strengthened throughout the 90s. By the time the PRI lost in 2000 for the first time, Mexico's?Federal Electoral Institute?(IFE) was considered one of the world's best.
The confidence in the electoral body was tested after Mexico's last presidential election in 2006, when Mr. Lopez Obrador, in his first presidential bid, declared fraud and refused to recognize election results, after losing the race by less than a percentage point. And the feeling that the election was ?stolen? is still strong among Lopez Obrador's supporters.
?Of course the vote was robbed in 2006,? says Hector Galvan, a young resident of?Mexico City?who works in human resources. ?Everything is corruptible here.?
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