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Coming Soon to a Boat Near You

magine a future where you and your partner are doing an ocean crossing, and you both get to sleep through the night at the same time. The boat is running on solar power, so there’s no chance of a clog in a fuel line. The boat also has collision-avoidance software that you can set to wake you if another vessel gets close, or that can simply adjust the boat’s course on its own, in

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