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"The media is a very valuable source," he said. "I think I have everything that has ever been published in the Mason City Globe Gazette."

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“We were right at the point when we had to commit $50 million to tool the bigger car,” Dick Colliver told me, driving to an appointment. I had gotten a hold of him through the company he set up in 2009: Amati Consulting. Colliver was optimistic about Amati as a concept.

Such an assertion comes over a month after a federal judge recently told the Department of Justice that such a practice—at least in one drug-trafficking case—is unconstitutional. His decision is based on a landmark 2012 Supreme Court ruling involving GPS tracking, known as Jones.

Two days later, Tuesday, June 27, 1995, Huisentruit left for work early in the morning but never arrived.

I’ve never seen any published specs of the so-called Amati 1000 at all, but Hall filled me in as best he could. It would have been as large as, if not slightly larger than the Lexus LS. The 1000 would have been bigger than Mazda’s top-of-the-line car it already had in production, which was the car we got here as the 929. The 1000 was like a stretched 929.

Now, a 12-cylinder luxury car was rare but not unheard of at the time. BMW put a five-liter V12 into production in 1987. Mercedes responded with a V12 of its own in 1991. But those engines were more like two six-cylinder engines joined together. The BMW even had two ECUs, a holdover from its basic design. This Mazda W12 was different. This was like three engines joined into one.

According to national specifications published in 2016, electric vehicles in China transmit data from the car’s sensors back to the manufacturer. From there, automakers send at least 61 data points, including location and details about battery and engine function to local centres like the one Ding oversees in Shanghai.

The company barely had the resources to engineer these cars, as Hall recalled, remembering quality control problems springing up as lineups ballooned. “The Flat Rock plant (where Mazda built Fords and Mazdas in the U.S. to skirt import restrictions) had huge problems. The build quality was awful. They blamed it on lazy Americans, then they started building the car in Japan. Same problems. The didn’t have sufficient staff to do all the variants.”

MASON CITY — In the days and months before she disappeared on June 27, 1995, Jodi Huisentruit’s top priority was her career.

Now, I hear you say, "but officers can obtain probable cause to search a residence, then control access to the residence while they apply for the search warrant." Sure, and maybe they should be able to control access to the vehicle while they apply for a GPS warrant. But controlling access is like detaining a package. Actually placing the GPS unit is like opening the package or entering the residence.

Experts say something has to be done with how self-driving cars are tested and how the companies behind it are being held accountable.