Sunday, July 31, 2016

2017 Nissan Armada Driven: Now on Patrol

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When Nissan created the original Nissan Armada, its first full-size sport-utility vehicle, it did so in the traditional way, using the platform of its full-size pickup. That pickup, the Titan, had been introduced in 2003, and Nissan's big ute, the Pathfinder Armada, arrived that same year, as a 2004 model. The Pathfinder label was supposed to leverage the name recognition of the brand's popular mid-size SUV, but eventually it was jettisoned, and the vehicle became simply the Armada. READ MORE ››

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2017 Nissan Armada – First Drive Review

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Oshawa Will Lose ‘Doomed’ Consolidated Line in 2017: Report

There might be some light at the end of the assembly line for Oshawa — but it will come with a price. According to the Windsor Star, the plant's Consolidated Line, which produces the Chevrolet Equinox in an overflow capacity using bodies shuttled from CAMI, won't get another stay of execution and will certainly close in […]

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Saturday, July 30, 2016

Study Shows Red Light Cameras Reduce Accidents, so Why the Hate?

There's few feelings more stomach-churning than looking up from your mirror (or radio) and seeing an amber light looming ahead. Do you go for it, or hit the brakes? If the intersection boats red light cameras, the potential fines make a good argument for mashing the pedal on the left. That's how the cameras are […]

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Musk Pushed Back Against Tesla Employees’ Autopilot Concerns: Report

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's drive to develop and market new driving technology is well known, but former employees say he brushed aside their concerns about the safety of the company's Autopilot system. Several employees, including a former Autopilot engineer, told CNN Money that their concerns fell on deaf ears, as Musk always reverted back to […]

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Friday, July 29, 2016

With Electric Powertrains, Self-Driving Modes, Mercedes-Benz and Tesla See Future in Buses

Mercedes-Benz Future BusPeople are moving toward the urban cores of our cities in record numbers. And while cities are pushing inward, it's becoming harder than ever to have a car—or multiple cars—in a household. Meanwhile, new subways and rail lines require deep pockets and often controversial funding sources. The solution, as some see it, is the automated (or semi-automated) city bus. A bus ticket is hardly an aspirational purchase for middle-class American consumers, yet two aspirational brands—Mercedes-Benz and Tesla—both recently mentioned bus projects intended to address the urban mass-transit dilemma.

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It makes sense. Moving people on buses networked with the traffic signals might ease gridlock without making other (far costlier) changes such as building new subways or light-rail lines, or adding politically loaded policies like urban-area tolling for private vehicles. According to the Union Internationale des Transports Publica (UITP), an international organization for transport authorities and operators, a single, large articulated bus could replace 40 personal vehicles and take up just one-eighth of the road space.

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The Mercedes-Benz Future Bus, a semi-automated city bus with a technology suite called CityPilot, is a front-runner in this field. It can journey up to 12.4 miles (20 km) without a need for the driver to touch the steering, accelerator, or brake pedal. With a dozen cameras plus long- and short-range radar systems monitoring the route ahead, the Future Bus can spot obstacles and pedestrians, follow lane markings, and function as part of a new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, employing networked data about traffic and signals along the route.

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Mercedes-Benz Future Bus with driverThat Mercedes-Benz system requires a driver on board (a press of a button puts it in semi-automated mode). It's also fully functioning today, and being tested on a route in the Netherlands, to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. Meanwhile, looking many more years into the future, Tesla recently announced a plan that sounds, in some respects, complementary to solutions like the Future Bus.

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Tesla Sees Future for Smaller Semi-Autonomous Buses

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Over the long term, Tesla says it intends not only to enter the bus business, but to produce a pilotless bus. As part of the much-discussed Tesla Master Plan Part Deux for the company to expand and "cover the major forms of terrestrial transport," CEO Elon Musk said: "In addition to consumer vehicles, there are two other types of electric vehicles needed: heavy-duty trucks and high passenger-density urban transport."

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Musk suggested that a fleet of smaller semi-autonomous buses could transition the role of the bus driver to that of a fleet manager. In the Tesla scenario, you'd arrange to ride these buses via a cellphone app, although Musk also suggested placing fixed summon buttons at existing bus stops.

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Tesla says its bus design would have car-like performance, so as not to impede traffic flow, and would include a flexible seating layout that could accommodate wheelchairs, strollers, and bicycles.

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The Mercedes-Benz Future Bus, as it stands, is diesel-powered, but the company has announced an all-electric propulsion system for its buses on the way for 2018; that should beat Tesla by many years. Would getting the Tesla name, or Mercedes-Benz's active-safety reputation, into city buses make Americans more likely to ride them? It's too early to say, but with these two names involved, the future of public transit now looks not only safer but a little more glamorous.

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2017 Chrysler Pacifica Tested: Back in the Game

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Chrysler likes to take credit for introducing the minivan, way back in 1984. It was an overnight success, competition soon followed, and a generation of millennials grew up spilling Cheerios and sippy cups all over the spacious interiors of minivans. READ MORE ››

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2017 Chrysler Pacifica – Instrumented Test

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