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If every state strengthened all five areas of their graduated licensing laws, more than 500 teen lives could be saved and over 9,500 collisions prevented, according to a new analysis by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
The five areas of graduated driver license (GDL) programs are permit age, practice driving hours, license age, night driving, and passenger restrictions. Some states excel in one or more areas, but no state has adopted all the best practices in each category. While IIHS…
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The Flex sells well in California. Not surprisingly, Ford has decided to debut the refreshed 2013 Flex at the upcoming Los Angeles auto show next week. Among the many changes to the Flex — which hits showrooms next spring — include an improved base engine, added safety tech, and a reworked front fascia.
For 2013, the Flex’s base 3.5-liter V-6 engine, gains Ti-VCT variable valve timing. As a result, power jumps from 262 hp to 285 hp, torque climbs from 248 lb-ft to 253 lb-ft, and the redl…
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A day after Mazda had announced that the company “has become the first automaker to successfully develop vehicle components using 1,800 MPa ultra-high tensile steel,” Nissan announced “the world’s first Ultra High Tensile Strength Steel rated at 1.2 gigapascals (GPa).” So who’s on first? 5 minutes of in-depth research revealed that 1,800 MPa equal 1.8 [...]
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Washington — Outgoing Obama administration official Ron Bloom said Friday Detroit’s Big Three are in much better shape to weather a downturn in auto sales, and he defended a deal between auto execs and the government to double fuel efficiency standards by 2025.
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U.S. automaker sales rose in July with Chrysler Group posting an especially strong, and unexpected, gain.
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Japan’s leading automakers are recovering now from the disruptions caused by a devastating earthquake in March — and most of them are recovering faster than they or analysts expected.
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Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney have created a new material that is lighter, less dense, harder, and stronger than steel. But this material isn’t one of those breakthroughs that only sounds good on paper. It is paper, and it could be a game-changer for materials science if it can live up to researchers’ hopes.
This graphene paper is constructed of graphite reformed by chemical processes into monolayer hexagonal carbon lattices stacked as thin as a sheet of paper, and it is remarkably s…
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Skeletonics, a six-month-old Japanese student project, has resulted in an exoskeleton made of plastic and metal that’s surprisingly dexterous and powered solely by the human embedded inside. As a bonus, the promo video looks something like a live-action Sonic the Hedgehog cutscene.
As the Skeletonics suit is unpowered, it doesn’t grant any kind of crazy strength or Iron-Man-esque powers–the Skeletonics is mostly designed to extend the reach of a human’s arms and legs…
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Plastics are great because they are so easily moldable into just about anything, but that manipulability also often introduces a degree of fragility as well. For high strength and durability, what you really want is a metal alloy of some kind. Now Yale scientists are doing away with this strength-moldability tradeoff by developing novel metal alloys that are as moldable as plastic.
The resulting materials are stronger than steel, yet easily formed under low heat and pressure into all kinds of shapes and …
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Organizers of the North American International Auto Show are using cautious analogies to describe the improving prospects for the auto business.
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