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Release of Toyota Documents Blocked, Ex-Official Says
Senior officials at the transportation department have temporarily blocked the release of findings by auto-safety regulators that could favor Toyota in some crashes related to unintended acceleration.
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Transportation Department officials have blocked the release of findings that could favor Toyota (TM) in some crashes related to unintended acceleration, a recently retired senior auto safety regulator says.
Transportation Department officials have blocked the release of findings that could favor Toyota ( TM ) in some crashes related to unintended acceleration, a recently retired senior auto safety regulator says. 4 comments!
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2010 Porsche 911 Turbo
2010 Porsche 911 Turbo At its core, this car is all about the acceleration. This black-on-black 911 Turbo looks menacing at first glance, but it's anything but scary once you sit behind the wheel. In fact, this would be an extremely easy car to live ...
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More, please, and faster
Paul Graham has a perceptive post on what he terms "the acceleration of addiction," describing how technological progress, by giving us more of what we want, will naturally tend to amplify compulsive behavior: Technological progress means making things ...
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Catalyst 10.7 drivers add H.264 acceleration for VLC 1.1.1
AMD has pushed out its latest Catalyst display drivers today, bringing numerous changes, including H.264 acceleration for VLC media player version 1.1.1 when running on Radeon HD 4000 and 5000 series graphics cards. There are a few multi-display ...
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NVIDIA Announces Fermi-Optimized Application Acceleration Engines
NVIDIA announced today new releases of its Application Acceleration Engines (AXE), optimized for the newest Quadro graphics processing units (GPUs) based on the company's new NVIDIA Fermi architecture, which were launched today.
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I-Go to add all-electric cars in 2011
The legroom is surprisingly adequate, and the acceleration isn't bad either for a battery-powered vehicle with a top speed of about 80 mph. There's even the obligatory cup-holder. Air bags too.
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20+ Demos Showing Advanced jQuery Effects
Just a short while ago, Flash was one of the primary technologies used by web designers to add interactivity to a website.Since the introduction of the iPad, with its lack of the Flash Player, theres an acceleration in the web development world to ...
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The Acceleration of Addictiveness
July 2010 What hard liquor, cigarettes, heroin, and crack have in common is that they 're all more concentrated forms of less addictive predecessors. Most if not all the things we describe as addictive are. And the scary thing is, the process that ...
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Auto safety experts question makeup of panels studying runaway vehicles
Auto safety experts are criticizing the makeup of two advisory panels that are charged with determining the role of electronics in the sudden unintended acceleration of vehicles. Automobile safety - Business - Toyota - National Highway Traffic ...
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Investigations into unintended acceleration should include engineers
Because of the electronic complexity of modern passenger vehicles, investigations into sudden, unintended acceleration should draw upon the expertise of a broad array of electrical, electronics and software engineers and computer professionals.read more
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Toyota, NHTSA Argue Over Unintended Acceleration Driver Error Story
Toyota and the NHTSA are now engaged in a bitter war, over last week's Wall Street Journal story, which claimed that most of the unintended acceleration incidents involving Toyota models were caused by driver error. Contributor: Vlad Balan Published: ...
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Behind the wheel: What the Motor Vehicle Safety Act means to consumers
Over the past year, the issues of unintended acceleration got our attention focused on ways to fix our auto safety net. The issue got Congress' attention, too. Congress has since developed a proposal to improve how the National Highway Traffic Safety ...
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Are drivers to blame in Toyota unintended acceleration cases? It may be too early to tell
Last week, the Wall Street Journal ran a story "Early Tests Pin Toyota Accidents on Drivers." Based on unnamed sources, the story asserted that the government investigation had found that event data recorders point to drivers being the cause of ...
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A funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Branch Office
Where you are going has a huge impact upon the mode of transportation that you choose to use. If you are going to the neighbors house, you tend to walk. If on your way to town or downtown, you tend to take a motorized vehicle. Out for a leisurely ...
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Toyota: Crashes Caused By Drivers Not Electronics
Toyota claimed that in virtually all the accidents were caused by driver hitting the accelerator when they thought they were hitting the brakes.
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Federal Judge Approves Discovery Agreement in Toyota MDL
The judge in the multidistrict litigation against Toyota over sudden unintended acceleration problems approved a joint discovery plan on Tuesday, forestalling a fight over access to evidence. The agreement, endorsed by California federal Judge James ...
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Auto safety experts question makeup of panels studying runaway vehicles
Auto safety experts are criticizing the makeup of two advisory panels that are charged with determining the role of electronics in the sudden unintended acceleration of vehicles.
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Tour de France Stage 14: Schleck refuses to be drawn in by Contador's tactics
Alberto Contador tried rapid acceleration and sudden braking in an attempt to drop the Luxembourger, Andy Schleck, during the Tour de France Stage 14. But Schleck didn't take the bait.
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Acceleration probe not done, Toyota says
A Toyota spokesman says the automaker doesn't plan to release the results of its probe into complaints of unintended acceleration until the government finishes its own investigations.
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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
Some Toyota accidents pinned to driver errors. The Department of Transportation has analyzed dozens of data recorders from Toyota (TM) vehicles supposedly involved in sudden acceleration accidents, and has found that in many cases the throttles were ...
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Report: Toyota planted false NHTSA info
The U.S. has accused Toyota of planting fake information involving its pending NHTSA unintended acceleration case. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Toyota - Sudden unintended acceleration - Wall Street Journal - Autos
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Unintended Acceleration In Toyotas: The Ghost In The Data
We didnt make it down to the first meeting of the NHTSA-National Research Council panel tasked with studying unintended acceleration, but apparently we werent the only ones. A scan of the MSM confirms that a number of more study is needed stori
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Emerging Market ETFs: More Acceleration Ahead? (ETFZone)
Emerging market economies are growing much faster than developed economies. Are emerging market ETFs worth the risk?
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Toyota Crashes: Was Driver Error to Blame?
Remember to hit the brakes...New reports from "black boxes" inside Toyota vehicles suggest that driver error, not the vehicle, is the cause for many Toyota crashes in unintended acceleration cases. The government recently analyzed vehicle data and ...
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Elgato Turbo.264 HD Software Edition converts video for iOS devices
Filed under: VideoMac fans who work with high definition camcorder clips have been aware of Elgato's Turbo.264 HD for a while -- it's a USB dongle that provides hardware acceleration for editing HD clips without converting them first. Today the ...
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Friday! With a wolf
Come Thursday, Im spent. Im done. Its a combination of the daily imperatives and a summertime de-acceleration, perhaps. Its the knowledge that Friday awaits, with the usual pleasures the filing of the column, which is the offcia
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Mobile Accelerometers and Gyroscopes Explained - What's new in O'Reilly Answers: Accelerometers and gyroscopes, Google Docs, implementing iAd, disaster recovery, and more!
Pick up a modern mobile phone -- an iPhone or Android device will do -- and think about it for a second. It senses where it is. It knows how to calibrate based on its physical location. This brief Q&A Alasdair Allan, author of Learning iPhone ...
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Report: NHTSA, Toyota clashed before recalls
A new report based on information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act sheds light on conflict brewing between NHTSA and Toyota before the recalls. Toyota - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Freedom of Information Act - ...
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At Toyota Europe, Silence Is Golden
On the back of the news from the NHTSA that they cant find evidence of Sudden Unintended Acceleration (SUA) electronic gremlins, youd think that Toyota would be feeling smug about themselves. Youd want to shout this from the rooftops, wouldnt y
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