"Platoons would need to transmit their status to the intersection and the signal change would need to be advanced or delayed to treat the platoon as a single long vehicle," said Alan Stevens, chief scientist and research director at transport firm TRL.
One example is the Advanced Market Commitment tool, where donors pledge to purchase developing country disease-focused vaccines or medicines, giving companies a commercial buyer and thus a reason to risk their R&D investment and product development.
The first task is to reform the way the Bank of England deals with the banking system – the most conservative and hidebound relationship in any advanced industrialised country.
New smart cities that have begun to take advantage of these tools include Tanzania's Kigamboni, an administrative ward of the capital, Dar es Salaam, Congo's Cité du Fleuve, Kenya's Tatu and Kozo Tech, Ghana's Hope City and Nigeria's Eko Atlantic developments.
Looking forward, the IMF said potential growth in advanced economies was expected to increase slightly from an average of about 1.3% a year in the last six years to 1.6% until 2020, but not reach the 2.25% average seen between 2001 and 2007.
The US government and its listeners have not advanced any convincing argument that what they do is compatible with the morality of freedom, US constitutional law or international human rights.
"You only get one chance to pollinate over 1 quadrillion kernels," said Bill Lapp, president of Advanced Economic Solutions, a Omaha-based commodity consulting firm: "There's always some level of angst at this time of year, but it's significantly greater now and with good reason.
"Any departure from this carefully crafted compromise will undoubtedly reduce support for it in the House and prolong the expiration of these intelligence tools, and I urge the Senate to pass the USA Freedom Act as is and without any further delay," Schiff said on Monday.
It needs to be set up manually, there are many tools (some say too many) and some distractions (like the Chrome Store).
Pint from £3.20, 85-87 Gwydir Street, 01223 471680, the-cambridgeblue.co.uk With the craft beer revolution being less well advanced in Cambridge than it is in the UK's cities, you occasionally have to veer off-piste to drink well.
Andrew Hussey is director of the University of London's Centre for Post-Colonial Studies School of Advanced Study, Paris.
