Friday, October 11, 2013

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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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