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  2. PrePass - Wikipedia

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    PrePass is an intelligent transportation system (ITS) that electronically verifies the safety, credentials, and weight of commercial vehicles as they approach participating state highway weigh stations. Because they comply electronically, commercial carriers enrolled in PrePass are authorized to bypass these facilities rather than pull in for ...

  3. Weigh station - Wikipedia

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    The system may consist of equipment at the weigh station itself, as well as a truck mounted transponder or smartphone, usually placed on the inside of the windshield or on the dashboard. The transponders are similar to those used for toll collection. Each transponder is directly registered to a specific truck, and contains a unique identification.

  4. Electronic toll collection - Wikipedia

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    Many ETC systems use transponders like this one to electronically debit the accounts of registered cars without their stopping. Transponder used in Chile for some expressways ETC Built-in Onboard device in a Nissan Fuga vehicle in Japan Genesis G70 vehicle with South Korea's ETC System Hi-pass Terminal A RFID MTAG used for electronic toll collection on controlled-access highways/motorways ...

  5. Good to Go (toll collection system) - Wikipedia

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    Every car that travels through the Good to Go electronic toll lanes is automatically photographed. If a vehicle passes through the electronic toll lanes without a transponder or Good to Go account, the "Pay by Mail" toll will be charged to the registered owner of the vehicle via the license plate information per the Washington State Department ...

  6. Glasspar - Wikipedia

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    Glasspar was also one of the first companies to build fiberglass-bodied cars, most notably the G2 (Glasspar), but including the Woodill Wildfire, the Studebaker-based Ascot and the Volvo Sport. The G2 was a prime influence on the decision for Chevrolet to develop the Corvette .

  7. Magnetohydrodynamic drive - Wikipedia

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    Yamato 1 on display in Kobe, Japan.The first working full-scale MHD ship. A magnetohydrodynamic drive or MHD accelerator is a method for propelling vehicles using only electric and magnetic fields with no moving parts, accelerating an electrically conductive propellant (liquid or gas) with magnetohydrodynamics.

  8. Boat building - Wikipedia

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    Boat building is the ... (at 570 kg/m 3 or 36 lb/cu ft it is the same weight as Meranti ply and about 13% heavier than genuine poplar cored BS1088 Okoume). Hoop pine ...

  9. Underwater acoustic positioning system - Wikipedia

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    LBL systems yield very high accuracy of generally better than 1 m and sometimes as good as 0.01m along with very robust positions [7] [8] This is due to the fact that the transponders are installed in the reference frame of the work site itself (i.e. on the sea floor), the wide transponder spacing results in an ideal geometry for position ...