Tesla crash victims said they were leaving to test its automated driving Autoblog 2 hrs ago Reuters
AUSTIN, Texas One of the two victims killed in Texas at the weekend in the crash of a Tesla car believed to operate without a driver was William Varner, a doctor, his employer said on Tuesday.
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The Tesla Model S smashed into a tree near Houston on Saturday night and burst into flames, killing one occupant found in the front passenger seat and the owner in the back seat, police have said.
Witnesses told the police that the accident happened shortly after the victims left a house, saying they would test automated driving capability.
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Doctor named as one of victims in fatal Tesla crash in Texas by Reuters
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Austin, TEXAS, April 20 (Reuters) - One of the two victims killed in Texas at the weekend in the crash of a Tesla car believed to operate without a driver was William Varner, a doctor, his employer said on Tuesday.
The Tesla Model S smashed into a tree near Houston on Saturday night and burst into flames, killing one occupant found in the front passenger seat and the owner in the back seat, the police has said.
Witnesses told the police that the accident happened shortly after the victims left a house, saying they would test automated driving capability.
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Yet another magic bullet
By John DiTraglia - Contributing Columnist
You’re probably tired of me proclaiming magic bullets for the cure of obesity which is still pretty intractable. But one day one of these magic bullets is going to be the one. I need to do a list of all the magic bullets so far but before that there’s yet another to talk about.
There is this recently discovered enzyme called nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) that is very abundant and busy in white adipose tissue and serves as a critical regulator of the energy metabolism of cells. It has been found that blocking this enzyme causes weight loss and fixes lots of the rest of the story that happens when you are obese. These guys at the University of Texas Medical Branch At Galveston, Texas have reported (1) of some of their work with NNMT. Here they treated diet induced obesity in mice with a molecule called 5-amino-1-methylquinolium that blocks the business of NNMT. They found that it was truly a (the?) mag