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| They will pay his monthly quotas even for one year |
| Ford and GM will help unemployed clients |
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Sam De la Garza, tall executive of Ford Motor, presents the big fleet of new motorcars Holiday come to the port of Baltimore (Maryland) from Europe, to be distributed between the concessionaires of the country. The above mentioned vehicles are included in the program “Advantage“ to help in the payment of the monthly salaries of the clients of this company to be able to turn out to be dismissed.
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Kimberly S. Johnson and Tom Krisher
Detroit, Michigan / AP
The American manufacturers General Motors (GM) and Ford Motor offered a new type of help to those who have postponed the decision to buy a motorcar being afraid to lose his work.
Both companies told that the above mentioned initiatives are focused in the consumers who do not decide to buy motorcars in an epoch in that high percentages of unemployment register.
Ford confirmed in the first days of April that it will cover payments of up to 700 dollars per month even for the term of one year on any last vehicle model Ford, Lincoln or Mercury if the buyers lose his employment.
The program, named “an Advantage“, applies until June 1, indicated officials of the company in this City of the Engine.
Some hours after this announcement, GM said publicly that it would do a similar offer. Henderson added that the company will do up to nine payments for 500 dollars each one “for the clients who were losing his employment without proper fault”.
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Ford Taurus 2010 is one of the vehicles which payments it will cover the company for one year, in case that the buyer loses his work.
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The clients must fill the requisites of the insurance of state unemployment to take part in the program that has validity during all this April.
More incentives. - The sales usually improve in March since the increase of the temperature attracts the public to the concessionaires, although the analysts believe that there will be scarce progress with regard to February, despite the numerous incentives offered last month by the companies, according to the marketing signature Edmunds.com.
The average incentive of the vehicles sold last month was 3.169 dollars, an increase was 30 per cent opposite to the same period one year ago, he added Edmunds.com.
Motive general Motors Corp y Hyundai Co. there were those that more incentives offered, while Ford spent the same as one year ago.
The company said that his sales have improved, and that 61 % comes from the convertible vehicles.
" The public keeps on coming to the car sector and to the convertible one, which we consider this year our best opportunity", told George Pipas, the analyst sales manager of Ford.
The company said that the sales of his compact model Focus lowered 42 % and that the sales of the vans F - stepped back 40 %. The sales of the sports vehicles Expedition and Explorer fell down 73 %.
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| Button takes another Big Award in Malaysia |
| It wins in a deluge |
Chris Lines
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / AP
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Jenson Button brakes his racing car Brawn GP in the middle of the torrential rain in the circuit of Sepang, in Malaysia. In the end the victory took.
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A torrential rain produced on Sunday, the 5th the shortest career of the Formula one in 18 years and the second consecutive victory of the racing team Brawn GP after the victory of Jenson Button in the Big Award of Malaysia.
The career was suspended when the red flag swung after 32 returns in moments that a tropical thunderstorm was flogging the Sepang circuit. The visibility conditions were impossible for the pilots.
The organizers waited 50 minutes to begin again the second career of the period, but the rain did not abate and also it became night after a start to the evening. The director of the career did not have another remedy to decree the definitive suspension.
To root that there did not fulfill 75 per cent of 56 returns, only there was awarded half of the points for the pilots and teams.
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The Briton Jenson Button raises the trophy obtained in the GP of Malaysia.
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" It was not a river, it was a lake", he declared Button on having described the conditions when the career was suspended.
A shrewd strategy with his tires gave to the German Nick Heidfeld (BMW) the second place, while his compatriot Timo Glock (Toyota) entered third.
Ferrari of the Brazilian Felipe Massa and the Finn Kimi Raikkonen remained out of the points distribution, what means that for the first time from 1992 the Italian team has the empty hands after the first two careers of the period.
The Italian Jarno Trulli (Toyota) remained fourth, forward of the Brazilian Rubens Barrichello (Brawn). The Australian Mark Webber (Network Bull) entered sixth, while the Briton Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) appeared seventh to take a consolation after a week of scandal. The German Nico Rosberg (Williams) remained eighth.
| Sling connects cerebral activity to his robot |
| Open the trunk in spite of only thinking it |
Yuri Kageyama
Tokyo, Japan / AP
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This Motive employee of Sling Co. takes a helmet full of connections during the demonstration of “apprehension“ of his cerebral activity.
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Incredible but true: to open the trunk of a motorcar and to control the air conditioning of the hearth without moving the hands and scarcely in spite of wishing it might be a reality thanks to a new technology of the Deep car signature, which connects the cerebral activity with the movements of a robot.
Sling Engine Co. has developed a skill to read the electric currents generated by the cerebral activity as well as the change of blood flow in the brain when a person thinks, in four simple movements: to move the right hand, to move the left hand, to run and to eat.
Sling managed to analyze these thoughts to transmit them then, without need for cables, to his robot of human form, called Asimo.
In a video showed on Tuesday, the 31st of March in the house counterfoil of Tokyo, a person who takes the helmet remains seated immobile at the same time that he thinks to move his right hand: a thought that is gathered by the electrodes of the helmet. After several seconds, Asimo, programmed to answer to the cerebral stimuli, raised his right hand.
Sling told that the technology cannot be submitted to a demonstration in public before the possible distractions of the person the one that is applied. Another problem takes root in that the cerebral configuration changes deeply from person person, therefore it is necessary to study them two or three hours earlier in order that the technology works properly.
The company, toecap in the field of the robot, admitted that the technology is in a very primary investigation phase and without immediate practical applications.
" Today I speak about sleep", affirmed Yasuhisa Arai, an executive of the Institute of Deep Investigation Japan Co. "The practical uses will take still enough", it sentenced.
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