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The Mercedes’ self-driving truck

Mercedes-Benz calls it a “visually exciting and technically feasible take on the long-distance truck of tomorrow”.

We call it bloody terrifying. Welcome, everyone, to Merc’s ‘Future Truck 2025′.

As the name suggest, it’s a rig built for the future but using technology that’s not far off: technology like autonomous driving, which will almost definitely result in the fall of mankind and the Destruction Of All Things.

Crash test dummies getting fatter to match American drivers

Crash test dummies are getting fatter so they better represent the expanding waistlines and bigger rear ends of American drivers.

Humanetics, one of the leading manufacturers of the dummies in the U.S. and worldwide, developed a new model that better mimics the country's population. About 35 per cent of Americans are considered obese.

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Useful links

A large amount of information about mechanical engineering is available on the internet. These are some useful links:

ASM International
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The first meeting in 1913 brought a handful of steel heat treaters together. Today, nearly 100 years later, the members of ASM International continue to share information and ideas that advance the study, development and application of materials and processes.
Center for Advanced Materials
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The Center for Advanced Materials (CAM) addresses research and development of advanced materials and their fundamental science while maintaining a strong applications focus.

CAM develops new materials leading to technologies of importance to the nation’s space program in its industry-academia-government partnership, and moves these and other materials advances into the commercial sector for economic and social benefit.
Engineering Council of South Africa
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers is the fastest growing professional engineering institution in the UK. The 80,000 members work at the heart of the country’s most important and dynamic industries.

The Institution is a forward-looking, campaigning organisation. By working with leading companies, universities and think tanks, it creates and shares knowledge to provide government, businesses and the public with fresh thinking and authoritative guidance on all aspects of mechanical engineering.
South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering (SAIMechE)
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The South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering (SAIMechE) is the senior body representing the discipline of mechanical engineering in South Africa. It covers all fields of application as diverse as automobile, energy generation, process engineering, heavy manufacture, design, management, research, mining and education.
Yahoo Mechanical Engineering
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The Yahoo! Directory is an online guide to the World Wide Web. It is a catalog of sites created by a staff of editors who visit and evaluate web sites, and then organize them into subject-based categories and sub-categories.

Yahoo! editors distinguish between a number of factors when organizing web sites, including commercial vs. non-commercial, regional vs. global, and so forth.

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