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EPA’s Proposed Vehicle Window Stickers Give Cars A Letter Grade

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The EPA is revising the window stickers seen on new cars to more accurately reflect the capabilities of electric and hybrid vehicles. They’re also proposing, rather boldly, that a big fat letter grade head the sticker, ranging from A+ (for plug-in electric vehicles) to D (for Veyrons and R8s).
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Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors

The tire pressure monitors are notable because they're wireless, allowing attacks to be made from adjacent vehicles. The researchers used equipment costing $1,500, including radio sensors and special software, to eavesdrop on, and interfere with, two different tire pressure monitoring systems.
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FAIR

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Court OKs Fetus Wrongful Death Car Crash Suit

In what looks to become a slippery slope, a Wisconsin 4th District Court of Appeals gave the green light for a man to sue his unborn child's mother's insurance company for wrongful death, after the woman's negligent driving played a part in a car accident. Following the accident, the mother gave birth to a stillborn fetus.
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On the road to cleaner air with air-purifying concrete

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Testing has shown that surfacing roads with air purifying concrete could make a big contribution to local air purity by reducing the concentration of nitrogen oxides by 25 to 45 percent.
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Drunk driver flips his car, while waiting, cracks beer

The newspaper quoted defence lawyer Peter Young as telling the court when Sneddon found he could not open the doors, ``he had nothing else to do at that point, so he had another beer''. When police found him trapped in the vehicle his breath-alcohol level was 1,191 micrograms - nearly three times the legal limit of 400 micrograms.
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Couple Says 'I Do' at Hospital After Wedding Day Crash

Still reeling from a shuttle bus crash that killed a groomsman and injured their entire 14-member wedding party mere hours before their nuptials, Tom Hanley, 23, and Lauren Magee, 24, said "I do" Saturday in an impromptu ceremony at Indianapolis' Methodist Hospital.
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Man found alive four days after crash

He crashed, then literally dragged himself out of the swamp, and four days later they found him.
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Zipcar Seeks $75 Million IPO - How will it ultimately do?

Zipcar was incorporated in Delaware in January 2000 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It currently provides over 400,000 members with self-service vehicles, and operates its membership-based business in 13 major metropolitan areas and on more than 150 college campuses in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
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Ford might shut down Mercury after 71 years

If Mercury is indeed dropped, it will join Pontiac, Hummer and Saturn as major U.S. automobile names abandoned during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. But the brand's potential demise comes amid a general culling of U.S. auto lines, the cause of which is broader than the downturn. Industry analysts say there were too many repetitive models, with automakers selling essentially the same vehicle under different names. The last Plymouth rolled off the line in 2001, the last Oldsmobile in 2004.
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WOW!

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Hillbilly swerves, baby ejected from car,over 18 ft. fence, lives

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Bob Blount was playing cards with his wife Friday morning when they heard a crash and saw a toddler fly over the 18-foot highway soundwall near their backyard. The tiny body landed in the grass hard, bouncing twice. "I really thought that when I went outside, I would find a dead child," said Blount, 75. Instead, what he found is something one official called "nothing short of a miracle."
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Volvo automatic collision detection system don't work so good

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At a demonstration of Volvo's new collision warning system in Sweden this week, Wired got first-hand experience of what happens when it goes badly wrong -- and we've got the video below to prove it.The new Volvo S60, due for release later this year, was fired out of Volvo's testing tunnel at around 30MPH, and the collision detection system should have kicked in, bringing the car automatically to a halt before hitting the truck in its path.
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Black boxes in every car and federal authority to issue recalls

All new cars would have to be equipped with "black boxes" that record performance data and federal safety regulators would be granted the authority to order immediate recalls under newly proposed auto-safety legislation being considered by Congress.
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