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Consumers Show Some Interest in Self-Driven Cars
2013-04-01 09:00:48| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
In a recent KBB.com Quick Poll, consumers were asked if they would ever consider purchasing a self-driving vehicle. Their answers, and questions raised, were somewhat surprising. [More] The Article Consumers Show Some Interest in Self-Driven Cars appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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Hybrid Cars in Slow Lane on LI
2013-04-01 02:08:24| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Hybrids are all the rage in the media but are people buying into the hype of the hybrid? Not according to one Long Island dealer.
Automakers Facing Threat of Hackers Turning Cars into Weapons of Mass Destruction
2013-03-31 01:35:21| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
SITUATION: A driver participating in a test sees that his speedometer has dropped from 60 miles per hour to zero, right as the horn honks endlessly. The engine has been killed and the driver is locked in his car! University researchers are testing out cyber security hacker attacks that will scare the daylights out of drivers. Guess what? There are hackers out there losing interest in taking over Department of Defense computer networks with the prospect of making vehicles weapons of mass destruction. Vehicle electronics systems and onboard computers have become remarkably sophisticated in recent years, and connected car technologies up the ante. A study by University of California San Diego and University of Washington is showing that hackers are gaining more power over public safety. SIGNIFICANCE: Connected cars are rapidly expanding in popularity and offerings such as Toyotas Touch, Fords Sync, and Chryslers Uconnect systems. Hacker attacks are not a pressing issue today, but in the next years, we will have to discuss the issues that could come up, said Dirk Hoheisel, a board member at Bosch. Safety is the top issue cited by Google, government agencies, and law enforcement in the autonomous, driverless test runs being tried out in Nevada and California. The harsh irony is that hackers could reverse the good fortune achieved through these amazing cars. Carmakers have begun probing their vehicles for cyber security issues. One major global automaker has set up an in-house team that focuses entirely on vehicle IT security, and outsources external audits to test its vehicles for vulnerability to hackers. Click here to read more about this ominous, threatening scenario that global automakers are being forced into dealing withThe Article Automakers Facing Threat of Hackers Turning Cars into Weapons of Mass Destruction appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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Used cars won't be cheaper on when HST ends on April 1
2013-03-29 05:39:47| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
The two highest paid public servants in British Columbia - whose combined pay was more than $1.5 million in 2010 - work in a building in Victoria that doesn't even have a sign identifying the business.
EPA Will Propose Achievable Cleaner Fuels and Cars Standard, Slashing Air Pollution and ...
2013-03-29 05:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Based on input from auto manufactures, refiners, and states, U.S. EPA standards for cars and gasoline will reduce harmful pollution while also enabling efficiency improvements in cars and trucks. Measures include reducing smog-forming VOCs and nitrogen oxides by 80%, establishing 70% tighter particulate matter standard, and reducing fuel vapor emissions to near zero. Proposal will also reduce vehicle emissions of toxic air pollutants, such as benzene and 1.3-butadiene, by up to 40%. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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