Toyota has given a taste of self-drive car safety technology ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week.
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On the car safety side they have done a good job and they are really trying to bring a lot of the circuits that we run on up to the standards of the cars.
"The electricity used in building a car is about 20 percent of the cost of the structure, " said Marcilio Alves, an engineering professor at Brazil's premier University of Sao Paulo and one of the few independent researchers in the nation looking at car safety.
Joan Claybrook, the top federal auto-safety regulator under President Jimmy Carter, said the stretch limousine industry is poorly regulated because the main agency that oversees car safety doesn't have enough money to prioritize investigating the small businesses that modify limos after they leave the assembly line.
It's fairly safe to say that Continental Automotive Systems isn't the only company out there conjuring up an in-car safety system to alert motorists of impending hazards, and while a certain sect (we jest, we jest) would likely ignore whatever great advice it's sure to give, we can still admire the effort here.
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Hamilton, who also slipped back in the confused situation, picked his way through to a distant third behind Alonso and Williams driver Rosberg before the race was given yet more added drama when Adrian Sutil crashed his Force India car to set up another safety car situation.
Candidates will be asked to demonstrate their knowledge of the functions of a car and safety issues.
We were parked right behind the doomed mob, so I hurried out to roust Heidi and move the car to safety.
America's car-safety watchdog asked Toyota to provide documents for its investigation into whether the carmaker's recent huge recall was conducted in a timely manner.
Hamilton looked to have the race in the bag until the intervention by the safety car.
Kubica survived an intervention by the safety car and a crumbling track that provoked errors from several drivers.
The Briton led from start to finish, despite two safety car periods, with Rubens Barrichello second in Melbourne.
But with the crane on track, it necessitated the safety car, resulting in the pitlane being immediately closed.
The penalty was issued for overtaking Lewis Hamilton in a safety car period.
We needed some weather or a safety car at some stage to try to bring us back into the hunt.
We tried two extreme strategies, with Fernando quite short and me quite long, in the hope of getting a safety car.
McLaren blamed a wiring loom that had been burnt because of heat build-up while Raikkonen was going slowly behind the safety car.
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"Without the safety car periods it'd have been a whole lot easier, but even so there were things to deal with, " he said.
Massa's race was ruined when he had to stop twice within a lap because of a breakdown in communication during the safety car period.
That allowed Vettel to take the lead until the safety car was brought out just a lap later following a crash by Narain Karthikeyan's HRT.
The medical team and emergency services team that we have are a world-class operation, and they are constantly trying to improve car and circuit safety.
In Melbourne on Sunday, the safety car came out after a late collision between Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica in his BMW Sauber.
Heidfeld led as the safety car pulled off, ahead of eight other cars which did not stop during the caution period, and Kubica in 10th place.
And when the red flag finally came out, the track was so wet that the F1 cars could not keep up with the Mercedes safety car.
But then it was Button's turn to see his advantage disappear when the safety car slowed down the pack so debris could be cleared off the track.
After all, Hambrecht says, shampoo companies, car manufacturers, safety equipment makers and toy businesses all rely on the chemical industry for ingredients that will give them an edge.
After restarting the race on lap 39, they were again forced to sit behind the safety car following Michael Schumacher's smash into the back of Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne.
He suffered from the intervention of the safety car in both races, and scored only four points in two races in which he should have been on the podium.
Hamilton clearly wondered then, to give him the benefit of the doubt, if he had passed under the safety car conditions and was trying to let Trulli back through.
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