The game doesn't suddenly ramp up in difficulty as you level up so the after level 25 comment isn't entirely making sense to me. I have several freeform characters that are almost entirely what the Behemoth is and I've solo'd them so far just fine. Good mixing and matching while still keeping a Ninja theme.This is interesting. You can use the AOE DoT to wipe out groups of weaker enemies while blocking and taking minimal damage, and can handle larger enemies with a direct assault with the threat wipe/self-heal as backup. Sixth Ability: Psionic Healing (Telepathy) - Charged Heal Damage resistant buff that scales with STR/CON.įourth Ability: Force Shield (Force) for the energy return.įifth Ability: Ego Sprites (Telepathy) - PBAOE DoT. Third Ability: Invulnerability (Power Armour). If you're getting overwhelmed, it's a threat wipe. Second Ability: Smoke Bomb (Martial Arts). Travel Power: Teleportation (undetectable to enemies, can fly but has 5 sec duration)Įnergy Builder: Righteous Fists (Martial Arts)įirst Ability: Thundering Kicks (Martial Arts) - +12% dodge chance for 5 sec after combo. Travel Power: Tunnelling (undetectable to enemies, but can't fly) or When considering a solo build, my focus is always on maximum survivability with as strong a damage output as possible. ![]() Mixing and matching seems the best option for soloing, and don't overlook the importance of stats. Those little destroids missled attacks killed me multiple times. During the final event.Took down 3 destroids and only died once in a AOE attack. If they did change it, it makes the power pointless to pick in that set. Unless they changed it, Invuln didn't take up a passive slot.so they would both work. Granted I know it auto-levels me to 20th and those others have extra powers and ranks I do not. I am about to get about 10th again and try the Heroes BG. ![]() So I came back for my third character as a lightning focused blaster with rocket boots and that shield. I re-thought, came back as a focused swordsman, at 10th level = got owned.Īsk some questions and found out what they had slotted was a force power, that puts up an 800 hp shield at low levels you do so little damage that it seems you can barely penetrate this thing. I thought I had a great build, so I went into pvp at 10th level = got owned. You only get one passive slot though? How do you slot them both? The question, however, is : Do you really think you ll enjoy the game as a downright broken powerful character? It got old for me really quick. ![]() Wrist Bolter is a very decent END builder, it has decent spike, excellent defense, and synergizes reasonably well with several other power sets, among them gadgeteer (though not THAT great), plus you can create the most broken PvE solo chars with it. I heavily suggest looking into Armor as your primary skillset if you want to create a downright broken character, with Regeneration + Teleport for PvP brokenness. and most of these ways are in powersets which have a ranged END builder anyways. For PvP, a ranged END builder is basically required unless you find ways to get around endurance. A melee END builder is just not very good, the chain skills are only great for juggling targets in PvP, or low power PvE, as they dont work reliably for bosses, have medium range, and wont work most of the time when needed.Īlso, a big problem is that Supernatural doesnt really synergize with any stats that well.
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![]() Once we calculate your daily calorie needs, we need to add to it the calories you burn through all of your activities through out the day. This data is only the number of calories your body needs, basically in a coma. This does not include calories you burn during work, play, exercise, digesting food, or anything else. As explained above, your calorie expenditure is the number of calories your body needs as a baseline. This could not be further from the truth, and we encourage you not too fall in to the same trap that so many followers of IIFYM have before. Most of our clients come to us thinking that the numbers is where their diet starts. This said, if you use the right numbers, we’ve found that it’s accurate enough that you can then use it with other diet formulas to come up with a solid weight loss or muscle building approach that will work incredibly well for 99% of the population. If you are injured for instance, your body will be working harder to help repair that injury and as such, you will be burning more calories because of it. Please do keep in mind that no BRM calculator will never be 100% accurate however as your body is constantly changing on a day to day basis. ![]() From here, this gives us a much better idea how to formulate a fat loss diet plan for them. When we use a this number with our clients then, we are figuring out this number. If you sat in bed all day long and didn’t move a muscle, this is how many calories you’d burn. As the name suggest basal means fundamental. This is simply the energy required to keep your heart beating, your lungs taking in oxygen, your brain functioning, and all the other everyday tasks your body does to maintain life. Note this is not the number of calories needed to get you out of bed in the morning, to brush your teeth, or to cook the breakfast you’re eating on your IIFYM approach. Your basal metabolic rate is essentially the sum of all the energy your body uses each day to simply stay alive. Let’s explain further and go over why BMI weight loss and true weight loss are not always inline. This is unfortunate, however, as the BMI calculator is not going to give you an accurate representation of how you’re doing. If you’re like some of our clients, you decide to use a BMI calculator. (not to be confused with our BMR Calculator, for example) So what is the basal metabolic rate and how does one figure it out? Let me share these details with you so that you get a better understanding of why it’s such an integral part of the process we use when working with clients. Still confused about your BMR? Read on and I’ll explain it all to you! IIFYM It starts with your BMR calculation, moves on to your TDEE and ends with your fat loss macros. The IIFYM calculator will calculate the precise amount of calories your individual body requires to keep you alive. Your BMR is represents the number of calories your body burns at rest. If you want to succeed at making any sort of body composition changes, whether it’s to gain or lose weight, you need to know your basal metabolic rate.īMR = Basal Metabolic Rate (similar to RMR = Resting Metabolic Rate, but for IIFYM and flexible dieting purposes, there is a distinction between the two). ![]() When they do, one of the very first things we do is figure out their basal metabolic rate using a fitness calculator. We have clients coming to use each and every day asking for help. Our clients make amazing progress while eating the foods that they love, without the suffering that one might expect with a traditional fat loss diet. We help people burn fat and build muscle at an alarming rate. It is no secret that is the authority on flexible dieting. Please remember to consult a medical expert if you want to gain or lose a lot of weight.On a mission to get lean? Want to pack on pounds of muscle mass? Trying to master your body composition and succeed with your fat loss goals? If you are looking to gain or lose weight, you can also use this number as a point to eat more or less then, respectively. Thanks to the Harris-Benedict calculator and Harris-Benedict equation, you can know the perfect amount of calories (or maintenance calories) to eat if you want to keep your body weight as it is. Keeping a healthy diet and using the Harris-Benedict calculator to keep an eye on your BMR will make it easier for you to stay in good health. If you are extra active (very hard exercise/sports & a physical job): calories = BMR × 1.9.įor more on BMR, check out the Mifflin St Jeor equation and the Katch-McArdle formula.Very active (hard exercise/sports 6-7 days a week): calories = BMR × 1.725 and.Moderately active (moderate exercise/sports 3-5 days/week): calories = BMR × 1.55.Lightly active (light exercise/sports 1-3 days/week): calories = BMR × 1.375.Sedentary (little or no exercise): calories = BMR × 1.2.To determine your total daily calorie needs, multiply your BMR by the appropriate activity factor, as follows: PrinterSettings printerSettings = new PrinterSettings() įoreach ( string printer in PrinterSettings. If ( string.equalsIgnoreCase(printer, " Foxit Reader PDF Printer") = 0) Info.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden įoreach ( string printer in .InstalledPrinters) ProcessStartInfo info = new ProcessStartInfo(documentPath) Public void PrintReportAsAProcess( string documentPath) || String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(currentPrinter)) This.PrintReportAsAProcess(documentPath) SetDefaultPrinter( " Foxit Reader PDF Printer") String currentPrinter = this.GetDefaultPrinter() If( String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(documentPath)) Public void ConvertDocxToPdfWithFoxitReader( string documentPath) Public static extern bool SetDefaultPrinter( string Name) ![]() ![]() Just Foxit Reader (Free) must be installed on the client.Ĭopy Code public class DocumentProcessing create and print multiple pages) or Adobe Acrobat Reader (its not free but. In addition, one will have a few more options to configure your pdf output if you're going to hack some Windows Registry values at application runtime.ĭepending on registy manipulating, full silent conversation, showing a FileSaveDialog as well asĪutomatically open up converted document is possible. Foxit PDF Printer also has an intuitive interface that can be used to batch. There are many great (commercial) document libraries which support a doc/docx to pdf conversation and a few other scopes to do this, but I just needed a conversation so I was a bit scared of using a whole library for that.Īlso the other scopes like using Word interop or SharePoint has not been an option for me because a licensed Word/Sharepoint installation is needed for that task.Ī quick look into foxit's printer settings revealed that this could be an option so I had a try and I was really happy that it works for my requirements. Seems easy, like a standard task and pdfs are a standard document format. This is an excellent tool for anyone to use from businesses to personal use.I stumbled over a requirement to convert (and print) *.doc, *.docx. Many leading companies such as Google, Amazon, and Boeing all use this product which is a testament to the quality that you receive with Foxit. Customers can also purchase individual features such as PhantomPDF at a lower cost if they do not need everything that is offered within the business packages. All of their services are reasonably priced, and all packages offer many features which can only be found within this software. ![]()
Users can call back and open contacts from the app itself.It offers a quick-access feature to star important recordings and filters them for easy access.Enen, It Also allows exporting to other services or devices.It has an in-built file explorer that allows users to play, delete, and manage their recorded calls.It also offers a manual recording feature to record only selected conversations.Custom create an exclusion list of people whose calls you don’t want to get recorded automatically.Custom select contacts for people whose calls you want to always automatically record.It allows to automatically record calls the moment it starts which makes it very easy to use.Also, the app makes sure that you can record your calls and conversations in the best possible quality. One of the reasons, which makes it one of the best call recording apps is that it’s compatible with most versions of android devices. Not only this, but cube call recorder also supports recording for Phone calls, Signal, Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, Hangouts, Facebook, etc. From phone calls to VoIP, you can record everything using this app. Now, after analyzing, comparing, and taking it for a test drive through several parameters, we are bound to say that the app justifies its tagline. In case of transcription of recordings, transcription is charged per minute of audioĬube ACR claims its call recorder app to be the most technically advanced call recorder to date. ![]() It offers unlimited recording and users can record calls as much as they like without any limits. Rev Call Recorder is completely free to use. ![]()
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However, this was not destined to be the fate of Bureau Number 37230, which spent only a week there before being flown to Naval Air Station (NAS) Olathe, Kansas, where it commenced service with the Naval Air Reserve. It remained at the station until the following February, at which time it was sent to Naval Air Facility (NAF) Litchfield Park, Arizona, a base used primarily for the long term storage of aircraft. Official description: "The museum's example of the PV-2 Harpoon (Bureau Number 37230) was accepted by the Navy at Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS) Holtsville, California, in December 1945. Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon (BuNo 37230) at the U.S. The results, though, look good - a beefy, purposeful warplane in dress blues.A U.S. Experienced modelers will plow through it, but the fit problems and confusing directions will frustrate beginners. I spent about 45 hours on my Harpoon - too many for a kit this size. Three other marking choices are given: another postwar reserve unit and two wartime Harpoons in tricolor camo. The decals went on fine but are a bit translucent the orange reserve band shows through the insignia. I chose a Naval Reserve aircraft from the decal sheet and painted the model Testors Model Master international orange and gloss sea blue. ![]() The clear parts fit, but I found the upper-nose gun barrels about a third too long compared with photos in Scrivner and Scarborough's Lockheed PV-1 Ventura In Action (Squadron/Signal). They look OK, but I ain't gonna check 'em with a caliper. I took a chance and dropped each engine inside a cowl, put a drop of super glue on the front of each nacelle, and just pushed the assembly together. The engines and tiny intake details are well-molded in resin, but there's no positive way to attach and center the engines to the cowls or nacelles. I filled gaps where the nacelle joins the upper wing half with. Complicating this, the B nacelle and flap-hinge fairings fit onto the C wing parts. B23 and C27) wouldn't fit and interfered with closure, so I left them out. But I found the upper bulkhead for the right nacelle was part No. All the wing and nacelle parts, including the landing-gear struts and doors, are molded on the B and C sprues. Assembly of the wings and nacelles was complicated by errors in the instructions. I could make no sense of it, so left it out. Special Hobby provides both open and closed ventral gun tunnels, and an additional clear bubble is shown in the instructions floating inside the open hatch. I removed the base's ring, glued the gun mount inside the clear bubble, then added the turret after painting. 6, I found the dorsal gun-turret base caused the turret to sit too high off the fuselage. For some reason the detail-free throttle quadrant, measuring about 1/4" square, is molded in halves. A few minutes with a coarse sanding stick and repeated test-fitting got it together. The cockpit floor and bulkheads are a bit too wide to allow the fuselage halves to close. But fit problems start with the first step in the instructions. The plastic parts show fine exterior detail, and the clear parts are acceptably thin. ![]() Special Hobby's kit may be welcomed by 1/72 scale model builders, but getting it together won't be a pleasant diversion for everyone. With an enlarged bomb bay, new, longer wings, and revised vertical stabilizers, the Harpoon was potent, but slower and less maneuverable than its predecessors. ![]() ![]() The Harpoon was the final development of Lockheed's Ventura twin-engine patrol bomber, which in turn descended from the early-war Hudson. ![]() Boy, your avatar, admits defeat and skips through it. ![]() ![]() Each backstory screen diminishes more and more negative space until it fills the screen with 10-point characters. A Bahamut Lagoon dragon and ominous synths prepare you another toothless parody of a histrionic genre. Having played the Earthbound trilogy, you anticipate the gentle pastiche. (I strongly recommend you watch both before continuing.) Eating your salad bowl of sugar cereal, you watch the logos pass and immediately control a boy in his coziest pajamas, watching the same logos flicker into the living room. Imagine that youve prepared, as you do for all great art, by changing into your coziest pajamas. Moons yet another example of gaming metafiction surpassing its fiction. If you find yourself confused in sections 3 or 5, read The Gameplay Of Moon.) (Simply read the gameplay section and then save the remainder of these links for later.) ![]() They failed? In Japan? They didnt get any games translated? And a game their masterwork decimates split international sales records that year like a Buster Sword through a wobbly analogy? So, English users have to read about Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, the greatest game yet made, on NeoGAF or 1 of these places?: Together, however, gamers saw why theyd abandoned the Super Nintendo-Playstation 1 Squaresoft gravy train, why they heralded the mainstream respect video games enjoy today, why th. With little influence from Kimura, L.O.L.: Lack Of Love silenced the narrator and game designer in order to demonstrate how superfluous Spore and Flower would be a decade later. Sans Nishis control, U.F.O.: A Day In The Life outpaced The Legend Of Zelda: Majoras Mask by a year and outclassed its storytelling with serialization, silent acting, and black comedy. Yet, even in proximity to each other, the men of Love-De-Lic couldnt help but drag games forward. Hell surely find himself institutionalized or Suda 51s understudy (i.e., soon-to-be-institutionalized). And Yoshiro Kimura, the indispensible humorist of the 3? The man lost his company and is clearly not well. Taro Kudou, perhaps the most innovative designer in games, will toil in the Tingle mines until Japan rediscovers its imagination or IGN runs out of leotard gags. Kenichi Nishi, THE artist of our day, makes iPhone music generators. But what Skip, Vanpool, and Punchline produced was mostly fun, no? Excepting each companys spectacular debut, they contented themselves with mere heartfelt, startlingly detailed entertainment, and they have received their due reward. Though Im religious and rationing curses for the years of political work ahead, I can spare a collective, ∿uck you, to those whove ruined my fun. The new Tingle game wont leave Japan, the new Chibi-Robo is nearly a lost cause, and NeoGAF may claim 3/5 of Little Kings Storys net sales. Today, Im uncertain whether this essay is Love-De-Lics introduction or valediction. That senseless cheap shot taken, I confess I fly a banner of my own. Are you one who clings to 1-note indie games? Divert the energy spent knocking over Gamestops magazine racks to construct meaning from your preferred ludological Lincoln logs! Flower wont be profound by itself, you know. Our Ueda and Miyamoto folk spend hours exhausting synonyms for elegance. There are those who stare, unblinking, at the PCs artistic glory years, while others join Ken Levine as he looks to the future (presumably fixed slightly above and to the right of the camera). A few don the tinfoil hat of Kojima fandom. Like fur-faced cave dwellers or fur-faced hipsters, we use our prized possessions as emblems. We’ll keep you updated on when we know more about the PC release.Some among us recognize the barrenness of the form and thrive as tribes on the digital veldt. Moon: Remix RPG Adventure is available now on Nintendo Switch. If you aren’t familiar with the game, it follows a young boy who is sucked into his favorite video game, and instead of fighting monsters, he must win them over with love and friendship after they have been slain by the game’s ‘hero.’ For now, it also seems there isn’t any announced plans for other platforms. Unfortunately, there isn’t much more news than that and there is also a lack of timeframe for when to expect this PC port to come. The game’s official Steam page has gone live, which you can see here. The remake brought the game to the Nintendo Switch in 2020, and while there made been no word on when it’d come elsewhere, now we know it will be coming to PC. The game was once meant to be released in America way back in 1997 on the original PlayStation, but that never came to be. It took almost two and an half decades, but the Japanese RPG Moon: Remix RPG Adventure finally came stateside last year. ![]() If you have any questions about the commenting policy, please let us know through the Contact Page.VideoCardz Moderating Team reserves the right to edit or delete any comments submitted to the site without notice.Please also note that comments that attack or harass an individual directly will result in a ban without warning. A failure to comply with these rules will result in a warning and, in extreme cases, a ban.Comments complaining about the article subject or its source will be removed.If you are concerned about performance, look into using editing codecs or a proxy workflow if you are having performance issues. To make sure the results accurately reflect the average performance of each GPU, the chart only includes GPUs with at least five unique results in the Geekbench Browser. The data on this chart is calculated from Geekbench 5 results users have uploaded to the Geekbench Browser. CUDA is also only available on Nvidia GPUs. Welcome to the Geekbench CUDA Benchmark Chart. They showed that there are minimal modications involved when converting a CUDA kernel to an OpenCL kernel. Note this may include abusive, threatening, pornographic, offensive, misleading, or libelous language. CUDA on and Nvidia GPU works better then OpenCL on an Nvidia GPU. 18 compared the performance of CUDA and OpenCL using complex, near-identical kernels. Comments and usernames containing language or concepts that could be deemed offensive will be deleted. ![]() Discussions about politics are not allowed on this website. Including a link to relevant content is permitted, but comments should be relevant to the post topic. While the OpenCL which is supported in more applications does not give the same performance boosts where supported as CUDA does. Comments deemed to be spam or solely promotional in nature will be deleted. CUDA being a proprietary NVIDIA framework is not supported in as many applications as OpenCL, but where it is supported, the support makes for unparalleled performance.I found reviews which showed a 980 Ti running very well in OpenCL tests, far better than benchmarks from a year earlier. OpenCL performance on its products in recent months, ie. This is a link on previous sorting algorithms test. If the applications you use split their support between CUDA and OpenCL we recommend using a recent Nvidia card. If you will stick to NVIDIA GPUs anyways you will likely get better performance using directly CUDA. CUDA vs OpenCL vs SPU Part IV Finally Ive got radix sort implementation which is working on AMD OpenCL. We make an extensive analysis of the performance gaps taking into account programming models, ptimization. If platform independence is important OpenCL might be interesting for you since you then can take the code and run it on a complete other hardware for comparison. We have selected 16 benchmarks ranging from synthetic applications to real-world ones. If you do not use any "classic" rendering, which you wanna combine your path traced results, I see not why you should use compute shaders for a pure path tracer. But when they for example used image processing algorithms that can be parallized very efficiently from the GPU then the comparison is nearly worthless compared what you might do in your path tracing code. In their comparisons did CUDA often show good results. Here is a quick comparison of a GPU versus CPU sample project in NeuroSolutions using one AMD Radeon (OpenCL) and three various NVIDIA (CUDA) graphics cards. Some people did already the effort to measure differences. It depends, as always on your setup and use case. NVIDIA develops their own ray tracer based on CUDA and GPU computing. OpenCL is not only built for GPUs and can also be used to write codeįor example to run massive parallel computations on supercomputers. OpenCL is a parallel programming compute API and is vendor independentĬompute Shaders are a way to perform general purpose computations withinĪ rendering system but without being part of a fixed rendering architecture.īut also for other graphics APIs like DirectX (DirectCompute) etc. OpenGL is a graphics specific API and is vendor independent C++ OCL cpu OpenCL is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other processors or hardware accelerators. OpenCL, but has be less succesfull in crippling OpenCL in favor of Metal. Apple is trying to do the same thing with Metal vs. GPGPU stands for General Purpose computing on GPUsĬUDA is the specific NVIDIA API to perform GPGPU only on their hardware For Davinci Resolve it doesnt matter if its OpenCL, Cuda or Metal and leaves it up to the manufacturer (in this case NVidia) to cripple OpenCL in favor of CUDA. To generate the CPU results I simply ran the CUDA performance tests with CUDA disabled, so that the fall back CPU functions were called, by changing the following. The FFT single-precision test was also noticeably much faster with CUDA. To first clear your confusion around the terms: Software: OpenCV 3.4 compiled on Visual Studio 2017 with CUDA 9.1, Intel MKL with TBB, and TBB. *This listing does not include dice, miniatures or cards. 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All sections are lined with your choice of felt and include removable foam so you can tailor your delver's kit to fit your needs. UDIXI 2 em 1 DND Dice Tray, Wooden Dice Box com Magnetic Lid & D&D Dice Staging Area, Dice Tray Combinado em One para DND, D&D, RPG, Tabletop Games em até 30x sem juros no Cartão Casas Bahia. The top and bottom are held together by magnets. The lid also functions as a dice rolling tray! Each section of the bottom tray is capable of holding dice or miniatures. It has plenty of room for dice, miniatures, spell cards and pencils. Check out The Dice Box's events, learn more, or contact this organizer. The Delver's kit dice box and tray is a versatile storage solution for your rpg essentials. ![]() Also, encouragement from family and friends to wear seatbelts was one of the key reasons for usage.Īnalysts say that awareness, motivation and stringent law enforcement can together increase seatbelt usage rate. Surprisingly, according to the study, 23% respondents did not even consider a seatbelt as a safety device, leading to non-usage.Īs many as 77% respondents said they wear seatbelts because of legal enforcement and 64% wear because they consider it as a safety device. Negative image perceptions (27%) and the belief that seatbelts ruin clothes (25%) were the other key reasons. Weak legal enforcement (32%) was the top-most reason for non-usage of seatbelts. ![]() “Seatbelts were made mandatory over two decades ago, but the usage remains low.”The last structured study on seatbelt usage in India happened in 2017.Ĭalled the ‘Seat belt usage in India, 2017’ and conducted by market research firm Millward Brown and IMRB (Kantar Group) for Maruti Suzuki, it noted that three out of four persons in India don’t wear seatbelts, or wear sometimes, and just 4% wear seatbelts sitting on the rear seats.It added that as far as regions are concerned, South India ranks the lowest in usage of seatbelt (only 11% of drivers use seatbelt), followed by East (21%), West (22%) and North (58%). “While cars are getting safer, drivers and passengers are just not taking the advantage of the safety features on offer inside a modern car,” said an analyst. “You just cannot not wear a seatbelt inside a car, be it the front seats or the rear,” he said.Automotive analysts FE talked to said that the focus must be on improving seatbelt usage, in addition to providing more airbags. “In fact, in some countries, kids not even allowed to sit in the front seats of a car.”On the issue of mandatory six airbags in cars, Ramadurai added that six airbags are theoretically safer, but in practical conditions a lot depends on the overall usage. There have been instances of the skull of little kids getting fractured due to airbags,” he said. “But for kids, airbags can cause more injury if the kid isn’t buckled up. Such force could seriously injure or even kill.”Gitakrishnan Ramadurai, faculty in the Transportation Engineering Division, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, and a core faculty member in the Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and AI at IIT Madras, told FE that seatbelts deficiently reduce injuries to a large extent, and airbags add a layer of safety. If, for example, you are not wearing a seatbelt and an accident unfortunately happens, you could be thrown into a rapidly opening front airbag. “Airbags are designed to work with seatbelts, not replace them. “Seatbelts are the best defence these help keep you safe and secure inside the vehicle,” Raman said. But do more airbags mean safer cars?ĬV Raman, chief technical officer (Engineering), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, told FE that wearing seatbelts is the single-most effective thing you can do to protect yourself in an accident. The Union government, earlier this year, announced that all passenger vehicles must have six airbags as standard to improve occupant safety, to which carmakers like Maruti Suzuki said it will increase car prices and hurt entry-level car sales.Union road transport minister Nitin Gadkari later said that providing six airbags will only be mandatory for vehicles that can carry up to eight passengers. Renault Nissan India conserves 50,000 litres of water daily from sewage decanter facility |
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