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Electrons Gone Wild.(automobile electronics)(Column)

AutoWeek,  November, 2006  

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Byline: Kevin A. Wilson Beep-beep. Beep-beep. I'd just picked up my youngest son from college, and we were driving home in an Infiniti M35x. Something kept beeping-barely audible over the XM radio. But I saw no light on the dash. Beep-beep. There were two laptop computers in the car, and two cell phones.

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All emitters of distinctive beeps. It was none of them. It had to be the car. But what was it telling me? I called up the info screen. No help. Beep-beep. It was getting cold, right at the freezing mark... a low-traction warning? I jumped on the gas and got the usual ...

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