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The wait is almost over for some Tesla customers to get access to driver-assistance technology the company has marketed in controversial ways -- as long as they're on their best behaviour. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has said that on Friday, the electric-car maker will roll out an updated version of its Full Self-Driving beta software, which until now has only been available to roughly 2,000 people. Those with access to this ever-updating software -- a mix of Tesla employees and fervent Musk fans -- have for almost a year been honing a system the company has charged as much as US$10,000 (NZ$14,200 – Tesla charges NZ$11,400 in New Zealand) for customers to use sometime in the future. Tesla says the system, often referred to as FSD, is designed to someday handle both short- and long-distance trips without driver intervention. It's unclear how broad the wider release will be because of a curve ball Musk threw earlier this month. The CEO tweeted that the download button …

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A pair of Danish architects have emerged from a two-month stay in the frigid wilderness of Greenland in a shelter they designed themselves. The pair wanted to test out the origami-style folding ‘Lunark’ shelter in conditions that closely simulated life on the surface of the moon . Sebastian Aristotelis and Karl-Johan Sørensen are part of a design firm called SAGA Space Architects and their mission is to ‘design and build architecture for outer space’. The idea behind the folding shelter is that it takes up minimum room on a spaceship but can expand once the astronauts reach their destination. The structure weighs 1,700kg and expands out from 2.8 cubic metres to a sizable 17.1 cubic metres. The shelter is capable of surviving temperatures of -45 degrees Celcius. In Greenland, the temperature didn’t plunge that far but they did get down to around -16. During their two-month stay, the pair had no access to smartphones or the internet but they did have a satellite phone and …

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After a fourth day of queues for fuel, it has emerged that key workers would be given exclusive access to certain petrol stations under emergency government measures to ease the crisis. The plan would grant essential workers "priority access" to pumps and would cap the amount drivers can spend on fuel. The Prime Minister is facing calls from NHS groups, unions and medical bodies, as well as Labour and Tory politicians, to make sure doctors, nurses and other key workers get fuel first. Boris Johnson has also ordered up to 150 Army tanker drivers to be trained to deliver petrol in an attempt to ease shortages. Ten fuel companies issued a joint statement saying they expected demand to "return to its normal levels in the coming days". In the meantime, here are some of our tactics for finding stations with fuel . It is known as the "psychology of scarcity", and as the queues snake in and out of fuel forecourts, it is as if Britain is engaged in a nationwide experiment to …

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Ford has confirmed it is nearly finished developing the latest member of the Raptor family, a high-performance Bronco. The Bronco Raptor was confirmed in a 17-second video posted to Ford CEO Jim Farley’s Twitter account, which showed a new grille with thick ‘FORD’ lettering, yellow LED daytime running lights, three extra lights at the top of the grille, and a lot of dust. Expect a wider body with off-road-oriented bashplates and tyres, tougher suspension potentially sourced from Fox Racing, better brakes and more power under the bonnet. SUPPLIED Ford has released a surprise look at the next-generation Ford Ranger in action. It probably won’t be a V8 powering the Bronco Raptor, with rumours instead leaning towards the F-150 Raptor’s 335kW/691Nm 3.5-litre V6 or the new Explorer’s 272kW/515Nm 3.0-litre V6. It could also be a tuned version of the 231kW/542Nm 2.7-litre V6 already available in vanilla Broncos. READ MORE: Ford hypes next-generation …

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