| Peugeot Onyx concept bound for Goodwood taking passengers |
May 31st, 2013 |
concept will make its public dynamic debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July, with the French marque offering free passenger laps in the 507kW diesel hybrid supercar. First seen at the 2012 Paris motor show, ...
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| Google Inc. on the road to developing self-driving cars |
May 31st, 2013 |
Self-driving cars being developed by Google Inc. and some automakers are getting a lift from U.S. auto-safety regulators eager to accelerate automation that they predict could prevent many crashes. Transportation Department regulators today released a policy intended to advance testing of self-driving cars and to encourage development of precursor technologies, such as vehicle-to-vehicle ...
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| Feds issue guidelines for self-driving cars like Googles |
May 31st, 2013 |
California Gov. Jerry Brown, state Sen. Alex Padilla and Google co-founder Sergey Brin exit a self-driving car at the Google headquarters in Mountain ...
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| Fiat family leader to await judges ruling on Chrysler shares owned by UAW trust |
May 31st, 2013 |
The head of the family that owns Fiat SpA and controls Chrysler Group LLC says he is content to wait for a ...
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| 8 most outrageous SUVs on earth |
May 31st, 2013 |
Hummer is dead -- long live the SUV! It's been more than a decade since the SUV craze of the 1990s, and it is a new world for sport-utility vehicles. Many once-rugged vehicles are getting watered down and losing their toughness as automakers cater to the majority of drivers who never go off-road. But there are still hard-core SUVs out there, and some of them are so surprising in their ...
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| Young women are more likely to die in car crashes than men |
May 31st, 2013 |
according to a report this month by federal safety regulators . That changes when both reach old age, however, when men are less robust and less likely to survive a crash.The study, authored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, was not meant to determine which gender is more like to text or speed - risky behaviors that lead to crashes, although research has found that young men ...
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| Tesla plans cross-country expansion of superchargers |
May 31st, 2013 |
Tesla founder Elon Musk says the superchargers he intends to dispatch across the U.S., would provide a charge of up to three hours. Each charge injection would take about 20 minutes. Battery-car start-up Tesla Motors hopes to put a quick-charging "supercharger" within reach of all U.S. motorists - and most of those in Canada - over the next several years, something that could eliminate ...
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| NHTSA Cautious About Self-Driving Vehicles, Plans to Conduct Study for More Information |
May 30th, 2013 |
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a new policy today on how individual states should test, license, and regulate self-driving vehicles. The government agency also said that it will be conducting more research on these autonomous vehicles in regards to safety. “Whether we’re talking about automated features in cars today or fully automated vehicles [...]
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| Ford EcoSport SUV Going on Sale in 62 Countries by 2017; U.S. Not Included…For Now |
May 30th, 2013 |
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If you live in the U.S. and you’ve never heard of the Ford EcoSport, you’re not alone. The compact SUV was launched back in 2003 as a 2004 model for the Brazilian market, and was redesigned last year. The second generation EcoSport was launched last year, and plays nicely with Ford’s global product development plan. [...]
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| Tesla Motors Aims to Dramatically Increase Number of Supercharger Stations |
May 30th, 2013 |
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It’s impossible to stop hearing about Tesla Motors, the seemingly invincible start-up electric automaker that has had a new announcement or two every week for the last few months. If you’re excited about your Tesla stock hitting $110 per share, just wait until you hear about the latest news: Tesla is planning on having Supercharger [...]
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