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Toyota engineers in Japan have developed the technology that enables their car to automatically park itself!

Yes you heard right: the damn car can park itself. The park-assist system uses electrical steering control and sensors to guide the car when it reverses. The car can sense the white lines on the road as well as gutters and the curb and most importantly, it can see other cars around itself. This means that all you have to do when you find that you don’t want to embarass yourself by trying to parallel park, you can flip a switch and look like a pro. The system was developed on a Toyota Prius and it’s not for certain if it’ll be available on other toyota models anytime soon. However, the Prius will be out next month on the Japanese market with the park-assist system as an optional package. Man, does that thing go on my wishlist or what?

More reading:
a) CNN
b) The Age

First off … I apologize for the site being down … technical obstacles.

I’ve heard this from a lot of sources that Henry Ford actually shrunk the back-seat of his model-t car to prevent any kind of courtship in the car. He disliked the idea of couples mating in the model-t and to discourage any such activity, he shrunk the back-seat to about 38 inches (not sure). If anybody can find me evidence of this, I’ll be really grateful.

I heard about Baskin Robin’s free ice-cream. Did anybody go? I feel awkward going somewhere for free stuff but hey! its free ain’t it?