LAS VEGAS — Automakers and government agencies are teaming up to lay the foundations for a future in which smart vehicles can communicate with one another to improve road safety. Many new cars today can connect to the Internet, but most of them use their connectivity for "infotainment" purposes, such as navigation or streaming music. What car ...
2ND LEAD [TamilNet, Thursday, 29 December 2011, 14:29 GMT]A Sri Lanka Army soldier, manning a check post on Poonakari Road, shot and killed a traveller on motorbike Thursday around 7:00 a.m. after demanding the traveller to hand over his motorbike, sources in Poonakari told TamilNet. The SLA soldier was reportedly killed in friendly-fire when he later ...
A BALLARAT man was killed after he lost control of his motorbike near Colac on Saturday afternoon, making a horror end to the year on Victoria’s roads even worse. The state road toll has risen drastically in the past month-and-a-half, and currently sits at 278 — four more than at the same time in 2010. Just seven ...
The car industry, in Florida and nationally, is rebounding from the shakeup caused by the mortgage crisis and Great Recession, which, among other negative consequences, reduced consumers’ access to loans. But brands like Saturn, Hummer and Pontiac were discontinued. General Motors and Chrysler filed for bankruptcy. And the number of new-car dealers in South Florida dwindled ...
One man died and another is in a serious condition in hospital after a motorbike veered off the road in Auckland this morning. Police and ambulance services were called to a crash in Dairy Flat in Auckland at about 1.44am today, said police. "A high powered motorcycle failed to take a corner and left the road in ...