Posted in Research, Safety, Uncategorized on Dec 14th, 2008
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 2008 will be a record year for traffic fatalities in this country. Not record high, but rather, record lows. You see that’s because according to the NHTSA 31, 110 people died in traffic-related accidents this year compared to 34, 502 people for 2007. That means that […]
Posted in Automotive, Nissan, Research, Safety, Technology on Sep 27th, 2008
This one is for the bees! Seriously though, bees (more specifically bumblebees) are indeed the subject of this article. You see, Nissan is studying these insects in an effort to develop collision avoidance systems which will find their way onto production vehicles within the next ten years. Co-developed with the Center for Advanced Science and […]
Posted in alternative fuel, Diesel, Research on Jul 30th, 2008
The Philippine police force are about to try out the idea of running their police cruisers partly on used cooking oil from McDonald’s restaurants. The oil is used to cook french-fries and the restaurant’s famous chicken McNuggets. The 60 percent diesel/40 percent French-fry-oil blend could become a standard fuel for the police fleet if it […]
Posted in Automotive, Recalls, Research, Safety on Jul 4th, 2008
General Motors continues to be under investigation for the reports of engine fires in GM’s full-size SUVs and pickups since early this year. The NHTSA said recently that it has upgraded the effort to an “engineering analysis” in an estimated 2.7 million vehicles. The investigation, which has not reached the recall stage, includes all of […]
Posted in Future Cars, Research, Safety on Apr 22nd, 2008
Prevent, a European company, is trying to build the first “uncrashable” car. Even if someone is the safest driver ever, how can a car be “uncrashable”, considering all the bad drivers out there? Prevent is trying to manufacture the car to be as deathproof as physics will let it. Their goal is to use “an integrated […]
Posted in Automotive, Cars For Commuting, Cost of Ownership, Electric cars, Research on Mar 22nd, 2008
In a world where hybrid cars seem to only extend the life of fossil fuel usage, it’s only right to give credit when a company comes up with an alternative (key word here) that does not run on dead dinosaurs at all. Mitsubishi is that company, and recently they revealed a prototype for a […]
Posted in Automotive, Research, Safety on Feb 18th, 2008
The Nürburgring. It is a legendary race course with a pedigree and history unmatched by almost any other circuit in the world. Affectionately nicknamed the “green hell”by the famous race car driver Sir Jackie Stewart, the Nurburgring cuts through a dense section of Germany’s famed Black Forest. It is a grueling circuit and is widely […]
Posted in Automotive, Buying vs Leasing, car buying incentives, Cost of Ownership, Financing, Research on Jan 25th, 2008
Times have changed. The days of going into your friendly neighborhood dealership and sitting down with a smiling salesman are coming to a close. The way we shop for cars is not the way your dad shopped for cars. The internet has vastly improved a consumers resources. Any average Joe is just a few clicks […]
Posted in Automotive, Electric cars, Research on Dec 21st, 2007
Hyundai has long shed itself of it’s economy car image of recent years. Cars like the Tiburon and the Azzera have started to push perception of the brand skyward. People no longer hold Hyundai in the same vain as a Daewoo. Well now rumors are flying that Hyundai is working on a plug-in hybrid that […]
Posted in Automotive, Research, Safety on Nov 16th, 2007
The U.S. Goverment wants to protect your head. They want new passenger vehicles to provide head protection in dangerous side-impact crashes, which kill thousands of motorists every year and leave others with serious brain injuries. They are giving automakers until September 2012 to make head protection systems standard on all passenger vehicles. A review has […]
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