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Toyota is far from finding a solution for its biggest recall ever. After trying to start a recall with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the Japanese manufacturer might after all spend as much as $5 billion to replace the accelerator pedals on ...
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The Institute for Highway Safety completed crash tests for the 2010 Top Safety Pick of the Year and handed the award to no less than 19 cars and 8 SUVs. For the first time in the history of IIHS, a mandatory requirement was that cars had to pass the roof strength test, ...
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety named today the 2010 Chevrolet Malibu as one of its Top Safety Picks. The Malibu thus joins the Buick LaCrosse, who managed the same feat in the last set of tests conducted by IIHS.
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Ford last week introduced the industry's first inflatable seatbelts for rear passengers, a combination of regular seatbelts and airbags meant to enhance safety in case of accidents. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) praised Ford's efforts in the ...
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Pedestrians Should Avoid Walking in Florida, Report ShowsSAFETYThose of you who enjoy taking long walks, should avoid doing so in the state of Florida, as a new report from Transportation For America (T4) shows. Apparently, the Orlando, Tampa, Miami and Jacksonville metro areas are the top four most dangerous cities for walking. Based on federal statistics, the report says that in the last 15 years, more than 76,000 Americans have been killed while crossing or walking along a street in their community. More than 43,000 Americans, including 3,906 children under 16, have been killed this decade alone, consumeraffairs.com reported. "This is the equivalent of a jumbo jet going down roughly every month, yet it receives nothing like the kind of attention that would surely follow such a disaster," the aforementioned source quoted the report ... >> Read more |
Having witnessing a worrying boom in drivers who text while driving, more and more US states have began adopting legislation banning this dangerous habit. Until now, 18 states and the District of Columbia have already enacted laws banning texting, with more and ...
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently conducted a new series of tests and concluded that the 2010 Subaru Legacy is one of the most advanced models on the market when it comes to its bumper protection. As a result, the new Legacy was rated ...
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German fire services have been provided with several training practice sessions by Daimler to learn how to apply a variety of rescue options with the aid of the very latest models. The carmaker also offered different rescue strategies for specific models. The ...
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Ford has just announced the industry's first-ever production inflatable seat belts, which are some sort of a combination between traditional seat belts and airbags. Basically, they are meant to provide increased protection for rear-seat occupants, including ...
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) publicly expressed their position on Japanese carmaker's Toyota floor mat problem, accusing it of providing inaccurate and misleading information about the 3.8 million vehicles affected.
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As promised at the end of October, safety organization KidsAndCars released yesterday data obtained during their latest survey regarding injuries to occupants in vehicles equipped with power windows. According to their findings (after a research conducted over the ...
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Toyota is still looking at ways to resolve its largest recall ever but before finding a final resolution on the matter it urged all owners of the affected models to remove the floor mats from their cars. Approximately 3.8 million Toyota cars sold in the United ...
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If you are the lucky owner of a power-window fitted vehicle, than you most surely were at one point the unlucky owner of some swollen fingers. There is just about no one we know who at one point did not get his/her hand caught in the speeding window as it ...
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Toyota is still struggling to deal with its largest recall ever - approximately 3.8 million cars are recalled in the United States due to an incompatible floor mat - and new details have emerged today. It appears the Japanese manufacturer is not only trying to cope ...
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Holden Ute is the first utility vehicle in Australia that achieved a maximum five star rating from Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) or the Euro New Car Assessment Program (EuroNCAP). The car is offered with a wide array of safety features, including side ...
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German carmaker Volkswagen today announced that its Accessories division had started a campaign for child safety with a major child safety test. The company says that parents can report here on their experiences with the Volkswagen Genuine "Bobsy" child ...
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It appears that not only conventional motorbikes have problems and are issued recalls, as electric ones have some issues themselves. Zero Motorcycles has recently issued a recall notice after the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said that the safety ...
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A new study that confirms the importance of booster seats for children had just been revealed, strengthening the knowledge that children aged 4 to 8 using it are 45 percent less likely to be injured in a crash compared with children using a seat belt alone.
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Just as we told you some time ago, Volvo is looking to introduce a brand new system, the so-called Collision Warning with Full Auto Brake and Pedestrian Detection together with the new S60 in 2010. It appears that the company has already started testing the system ...
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The safety glitch we told you about yesterday killed no less than four people in the United States. At least, this is the only accident we heard about at this time, although preliminary reports are claiming more than 100 incidents occurred in either Toyota or Lexus ...
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