Word: split-second
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...keep driver Kimi Raikkonen on the track. The ploy worked; Raikkonen won. But the decision wasn't made at trackside. It came from team leaders based at the McLaren Technology Center in leafy Woking, south of London, who were using prediction software they had developed to help them make split-second tactical decisions in a sport in which speed is king...
...keep driver Kimi Raikkonen on the track. The ploy worked; Raikkonen won. But the decision wasn't made at trackside. It came from team leaders based at the McLaren Technology Centre in leafy Woking, south of London, who were using prediction software they've developed to help them make split-second tactical decisions in a sport where speed is king. All F1 teams have their own versions of software that analyze thousands of variables - from weather and road conditions to fuel levels and competitors' likely actions - and how they may interact to affect a car's performance, before and during...
...that Hizballah is firing rockets from Lebanese houses, and it's going to put my soldiers, my civilians in Haifa or wherever, in danger, then I'll put my own people first. I have to." Still, in the heat of battle, that clarity doesn't make a pilot's split-second, wrenching decisions all that much easier to make...
...heard a story that I'll never forget. It was told by Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, who was addressing a small audience in Washington. A military helicopter pilot from Iowa, serving in Iraq, was killed when he noticed a ground-to-air missile headed his way and, in a split-second reaction, swerved his chopper so that he and his co-pilot would take the hit and his 18 passengers would be spared. Vilsack placed a condolence call to the widow, who stopped him in midsentence. "I think about it this way," the woman said. "Those 18 men needed...
...abnormal behavior. But the airline crew did not know about Alpizar's condition, and Denis Breslin, a spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association, suggests that Buechner's cries about her husband's illness could have been a ploy to distract the air marshals. "They are trained to make a split-second decision. They don't have time to second-guess," says Representative John Mica of Florida, who chairs the House subcommittee on aviation. "I think they acted absolutely appropriately...