| Brooklyn Center auto mechanic claims co-workers uttered gay slurs |
May 20th, 2013 |
A mechanic says that his co-workers at a Twin Cities car dealership accosted him with gay slurs and threats and that when he complained to superiors, the company did nothing. In a lawsuit filed in Hennepin County District Court, Joel Michael Roland also says he was disciplined for "speaking in a high-pitched voice and lisping," which a customer interpreted as being demeaning to ...
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| 8 most outrageous SUVs on earth |
May 20th, 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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| Florida ahead of the curve on driverless auto testingS |
May 20th, 2013 |
WASHINGTON — Cars that steer themselves through bumper-to-bumper traffic will hit the market by the end of this year, and self-parking vehicles aren’t far behind. Fully autonomous models that don’t need human drivers at all are less than a decade from dealerships. But laws lag behind the rise of the robo-car. Only three states — Nevada, California and Florida — have ...
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| Detroit lawmakers present no-fault auto insurance reform plan |
May 20th, 2013 |
Detroit - Democratic state lawmakers from the Motor City announced their own auto insurance reform package Monday that seeks to drive down the rates that Detroiters pay as well as force transparency into a $14 billion fund for victims with catastrophic accident claims. The package of bills, which remain in draft form, would restructure the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association to force it to ...
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| Sir Stirling Moss drives 1959 race-winning Aston Martin DBR1 at the Nurburgring |
May 20th, 2013 |
in anger was 54 years ago when he won the 1959 Nurburgring 1000km-race in Germany. Aston Martin's global centenary celebrations at this weekend's 24 hours race gave the British racing legend another opportunity to get behind the wheel of the historic DBR1 race car that gave the company its third consecutive win at the Nurburgring. According to Moss, though, it nearly, it nearly ...
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| Under-Floor Storage Keeps Clutter to a Minimum |
May 20th, 2013 |
Whenever I get a test car, I always lift the cargo-floor flap just to see if it's there -- the under-floor storage tray, which always confounds me. What can someone do with the partitioned, shallow foam tray besides look at it and wonder what will fit in there? It's not big enough to house dirty shoes or jugs of windshield washer fluid. So, what does fit then? I usually ignore the ...
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| AAA Fear of Unknown Fuels Aversion to EVs |
May 20th, 2013 |
If U.S. car shoppers were more informed about the capabilities and advantages of electric vehicles, they'd be more inclined to buy one, according to AAA. Despite technological advancements and thousands of available charging stations that make EVs far more practical than before, an AAA survey showed that eight out of 10 adults are still either unsure about or unlikely to buy one. Mileage ...
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| About 100 cars burned in riots sparked by police shooting in Sweden |
May 20th, 2013 |
About 100 vehicles were set ablaze in a riot in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, in what a group claims was a reaction to the police shooting of an elderly man. A car set on fire in a nearby garage caused about 50 people to be evacuated from their apartment building, the Swedish news agency TT reported Monday. Police said they were met by about 50 to 60 youths throwing stones when they responded ...
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| Toyota to increase lithium-ion battery production for hybrids |
May 20th, 2013 |
Toyota Motor Corp. is planning to increase production of lithium-ion batteries by six times, as the automaker prepares to eventually use them in its flagship Prius gasoline-electric hybrid cars, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday. Currently, most of Toyota's hybrid vehicles use nickel-metal hydride batteries but the automaker is planning to make more cars with lithium-ion ...
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| V2V Lets Cars Talk to Each Other |
May 20th, 2013 |
technology that manufacturers are looking into is a system that would enable future cars to communicate with each other. Called Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication, or V2V, the system aims to avoid accidents on the road by using wireless signals to send information back between cars about their location, speed and direction. Researchers are also studying vehicle-to-infrastructure communication ...
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