Small Cars Stint on Safety
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The latest minis from Hyundai, Chevrolet, Honda, Toyota and Scion don't protect passengers in crashes, especially if an SUV is involved.  In Autopia.
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The Institute for Highway Safety tested 73 cars, but only eight of them recieved an overall good rating. Most cars do a poor or marginal job protecting passengers from whiplash injuries in a rear-end crash, according to crash tests of several models.
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Federal safety regulators issued new rules on Monday to prevent deaths and injuries caused by power-window switches that can be activated inadvertently by small children playing in a car.
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Federal regulators are investigating General Motors Corp. minivans after getting reports that people have been injured by automatic sliding doors.
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It's cute, tiny and plastic. The kids love it. It also gets 70 miles per gallon, and you can fit three in a single parking spot. Move over, Mini: The Smart microcar could be the next big thing on America's roads. By Douglas McGray from Wired magazine.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Behold, with a microscope if necessary, the Smart car. The Mercedes-built European two-seater turns on half a dime, loves to park where even MINIs fear to fit, and is counterintuitively comfortable.
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NEW YORK -- It's enough to give small investors a case of whiplash.
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The nation's traffic problems are getting worse faster than they can be fixed even in small cities like Brownsville, Texas, and Pensacola, Fla.
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Giant digital displays, designed to give roadside advertisers more options for capturing drivers' eyes, encounter opposition in the face of safety concerns. By the Associated Press.
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WASHINGTON -- The difference in bumper height between cars and sport utility vehicles leads to costly accident repairs even after low-speed crashes, an insurance group said yesterday.
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A wide-ranging package of new formula one technical rules has been announced by the FIA, motor racing&#39;s international governing body, to slow the cars in the interests of safety.
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Thousands of consumers are lining up to buy small cars, but they are not giving up their S.U.V.âs and pickups.
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Whether small, medium or large, these cars are equivalent to a quart-sized espresso: An eye-opening way to start the working day.
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People driving or riding in a sport utility vehicle in 2003 were nearly 11 percent more likely to die in an accident than people in cars.
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Little things are important. Consider the matter of tires and this week's subject car, the 2008 Mazda RX-8 sports coupe that really isn't a coupe, because it actually has four doors and seats for four people.
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Soon you'll have the ability to pinpoint a car's or a person's location to within less than three inches using handheld devices.
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Safety experts say the influx of electronics is turning cars into sometimes chaotic moving family rooms.