Early versions were independently invented and patented by a major US auto insurance company, Progressive Auto Insurance () and a Spanish independent inventor, Salvador Minguijon Perez ().

While this had little effect on either company, it gravely damaged the independent auto makers.

Kaiser suffered the ultimate fate of all independent American auto manufacturers in the postwar period.

Advance Auto Parts ' spokesman, Shelia Stuewe, speaking on the matter stated " that the logistics of distributing appliances, home and garden supplies, auto parts and hardware to over 300 independent dealers scattered across 33 states became too much for the company to continue.

Telematic auto insurance was independently invented and patented by a major U. S. auto insurance company, Progressive Auto Insurance and a Spanish independent inventor, Salvador Minguijon Perez ( European Patent EP0700009B1 ).

In the late 1990s, he worked with the Rocky Mountain Institute ( Snowmass, Colorado ) in the research, design, and development of the ultralight, ultra-efficient " Hypercar " — a prototype by way of which independent designers hope to show the way for the world's auto manufacturers.

In 2006 corporate investment acquisitions included Autodistribution, a French auto parts distributor ; Armacell, a global manufacturer of engineered foams ; and FleetPride, an independent US truck parts distributor.

Breezy Point Shopping Center has a grocery store called Deirdre Maeve's, a Ridgewood Savings Bank, a hardware store, the Sand Castle, an independent gift shop, " The Blarney Castle ," a pub, a liquor store, a coffee shop, and an auto repair shop.

Studebaker was one of two independent American auto manufacturers to invest in development and tooling for automatic transmissions, the other being Packard with its Ultramatic product.

In an independent test, the Nissan Micra's system was found to be the most secure, while certain BMW and Mercedes keys failed, being theoretically capable of allowing cars to be driven away while their owners were refueling. Despite these security vulnerabilities, auto theft rates have decreased 7 percent between 2009 and 2010, and the National Insurance Crime Bureau credits smart keys for this decrease.

Its parts are marketed through a network of authorized BMW dealers and independent auto repair shops.

An auto independent or carfree society has at least five options of travel.

Frustrated by the limitations of the insurance companies of the day only offering insurance for one type of client ( i. e. " preferred " or " non-standard "), he founded Mercury Insurance in April 1962 to offer auto insurance policies for all the different types of drivers an independent insurance agency might have, thus eliminating an agent's need to have contracts with a multitude of different insurance carriers.

Among the older cases cited by the Court in Playboy v. Welles was Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft v. Church, in which the Ninth Circuit had ruled that an independent auto repair shop that specialized in repairing Volkswagen cars and mentioned that fact in their advertising was not liable for trademark infringement so long as they did not claim or imply that they had any business relationship with the Volkswagen company.

Erie Insurance Group is a multi-line insurance company, offering auto, home, commercial and life insurance through a network of independent insurance agents.

The almost independent evolution of styles created distinct sounds of " bleep and bass ", brutalist techno, hardcore jungle, pop-rave, UK garage, and ragga-techno sounds.

The garage rock revival and garage punk coexisted throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s with many independent record labels releasing thousands of records by bands playing various styles of primitive rock and roll all around the world.

Bands such as Black Lips and Jay Reatard, who initially released their records on traditionally garage punk labels such as In The Red Records, began signing to larger, more well-known independent labels.

By 1936, the 21-year old Henna already operated his own independent garage and filling station in Round Rock.

Sympathy for the Record Industry ( also known as Sympathy Records or Sympathy 4 the R. I .) is a mainly independent garage rock and punk label formed in 1988 by record industry anti-mogul Long Gone John.

For example, Finished With My Ex is a Portuguese independent music duo, whose genres variate from Alternative rock, garage rock to electronic rock, acoustic, industrial rock, formed in 2012 in Braga.

In 1998, The White Stripes were signed to Italy Records, a small and independent Detroit-based garage punk label, by Dave Buick.

It also has a village store and Post Office, an independent garage, village hall and two public houses, the Green Man and The Horseshoe.

The group began as an independent act founded after the duo dropped out of college, and they eventually emerged among a second wave of popular garage rock revival artists from the 2000s.

Springman Records is an independent record label founded in 1998 by Avi Ehrlich that was run out of his parent's garage in Cupertino, California until late 2005, when Ehrlich moved the label to Sacramento.

She was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.

The accuracy of measuring the total electrical energy entering an exploding wire during a few microseconds was verified when two independent types of comparison with the heat energy produced had an uncertainty of less than 2 percent.

In other words, the Soviet Union was determined to create a Poland so strong as to be a powerful bulwark against Germany and so closely tied to Russia that there would never be any question of her serving as a cordon sanitaire against the Soviets or posing as an independent, balancing power in between Russia and Germany.

Philip Staffe, the ship's carpenter, was a good worker, but perversely independent.

There was no confirmation of such massive assaults from independent sources.

So, for all practical purposes, it was an independent nation and by now had its own organized government ( unrecognized outside its own borders ).

The Declaration announced the states ' entry into the international system ; the model treaty was designed to establish amity and commerce with other states ; and the Articles of Confederation, which established “ a firm league ” among the thirteen free and independent states, constituted an international agreement to set up central institutions for the conduct of vital domestic and foreign affairs.

The Kingdom of Pontus was independent from the 3rd century BC, until the middle of the 1st century BC.

Since the minting of coins was a prerogative accorded in Islamic practice only to a sovereign, it can be considered that Osmanli became independent of the Mongol Khans.

Aztlan Underground appeared on television on Culture Clash on Fox in 1993, was part of Breaking Out, a concert on pay per view in 1998, and was featured in the independent films Algun Dia and Frontierlandia.

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

Argon was also encountered in 1882 through independent research of H. F. Newall and W. N.

After the American Revolution, the parishes in the newly independent country found it necessary to break formally from a church whose Supreme Governor was ( and remains ) the British monarch.

Ultimately, the fifth postulate was found to be independent of the first four.

* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.

After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

In 1947, British rule in the South Asia was replaced by the sovereign, independent nations of India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh, resulting in the migration of millions people and significant loss of life and property.

Agathon was also the first playwright to write choral parts which were apparently independent from the main plot of his plays.

great ) was subordinate to the priestly ensi, and was appointed at times of troubles, but by later dynastic times, it was the lugal who had emerged as the preeminent role, having his own " é " (= house ) or " palace ", independent from the temple establishment.

His failure to make the National Union brand a genuine party made Johnson an independent during his presidency, though he was supported by Democrats and later rejoined the party briefly as a Democratic Senator from Tennessee in 1875 until his death that year.