Oil Traders Misread Tweet, Spike In Oil Prices Follows Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:12 PM PDT  Look before you leap, our grandmothers used to say. That calm, orderly, sage advice could've come in handy yesterday, when traders panicked about the price of oil after misreading a tweet. Yes, a tweet. The tweet in question came from the Israeli Defense Forces: Oct. 10 #YomKippur73: Israel Air Force bombards airports in Syria to prevent Soviet...  |
Toyota Prevails In Important Unintended Acceleration Lawsuit Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:26 AM PDT  It's been a good news/bad news week for Toyota in the courts. On the bad news front, Toyota is being sued for its flop of a collision-avoidance system. The good news? In a completely separate case, a jury in Los Angeles found that the Toyota Camry was not the cause of Noriko Uno's death in 2009. According to Bloomberg, plaintiffs had argued that...  |
Toyota Will Roll Out Autonomous Cars By The 'Mid-2010s' Posted: 11 Oct 2013 08:56 AM PDT  Autonomous cars are coming -- that much we know. Nissan promises to debut models by 2020. So does Mercedes-Benz. Tesla may arrive a few years earlier. And Google, the company that most folks currently associate with self-driving vehicles? Who knows? But what about Toyota, the world's largest automaker? We're glad you asked: today, Toyota announced...  |
2014 Chevy Malibu, Shutdown Affects NHTSA, Prius Owners Sue: What’s New @ The Car Connection Posted: 11 Oct 2013 07:30 AM PDT  From The Car Connection: Toyota Prius V Owners Sue Over Flawed Pre-Collision System Last month, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety unveiled the results of a new testing program designed to put collision-avoidance systems through the wringer. Some performed very well; others, less so. 2014 Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid Dropped, Replaced...  |
30 Days of the Mercedes CLA: How To Buy One For $31,000--Or More Posted: 11 Oct 2013 06:03 AM PDT  This month, we're getting a deeper dive with one of the bigger new-car stories of the year. We're spending 30 days with the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250, just as it goes on sale in the U.S. One of the reasons it's a big story? It's a Mercedes-Benz at a $29,900 base price (not including a $925 destination charge), with what we'd consider a reasonable...  |
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