Automobile Blog March Archive

Break Override System from Mazda

03/10/10 04:06

Toyota has recently announced that it will be putting break override technology in its 2011 fleet. This is after their massive vehicle recall that reached more than 9 million units due to safety concerns regarding unintended accelerations.

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Safer Mercedes Benz Technology Innovations

Amidst the sufferings of Japanese automaker Toyota regarding vehicle safety, most automakers are making sure they don't suffer the same fate. It's a hard battle to win when the public's safety is compromised. Worst thing that could happen is that the person caught in the accident is driving one of their vehicle.

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Unintended Acceleration Still Present on Post-Recalled Vehicles

To answer the issues regarding the death of a family while driving on the road with their Toyota vehicle, the Japanese automaker recalled millions of their vehicles which was reported to have experienced the said acceleration. The recall isn't on small scale. It has now reached almost 10 million units.

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When Brakes Fail

I was doing my regular YouTube round and decided it's a day for funny videos so I went to the FAIL Blog's official YouTube channel. I was having a good laugh in all of the videos available but my attention was called by this one. See it.

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Toyota Sienna with Auto Access Seat

Business as usual. Despite Toyota's huge problems for the past few months that amounted to millions of dollars of revenue losses, the automaker still doing business on their units not affected by the recalls and those not included in the safety lookout.

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Goodbye Toyota, Hello Hyundai?

Have you read the article Korean Vs Japanese car market rivalry? Not? Now's your chance.

Probably a year ago, months before the unintended acceleration issues on Toyota vehicles started, we can hardly say Korean automaker Hyundai is beating Japanese carmaker Toyota down in the market. We'll say they are making good efforts and all that, but it will take years for them to at least with Toyota's achivements.

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Auto Scrap Yard

Yesterday I had to accompany my friend to a car scrap yard where his father works. He needs to get his tuition fee to we had to pay his father a visit in his office. He is the manager of the establishment. It was around 9am and so the scrapping procedure on old, unusable cars are ongoing.

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Black Boxes for ALL Vehicles?

Event Data Recorders (EDRs), or commonly known to many of us as Black Boxes, are used in primarily in airplanes. These are valuable devices that can answer many questions about what happened in the last few seconds before the plane crashed.

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Ford Transit Connect Electric

Ford's Transit Connect was chosen as the recipient of the 2010 Truck of the Year Award. And in the coming months, we'll also be seeing an electric version of the vehicle on the road. Dubbed as the Transit Connect Electric, it will run on pure electric.

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