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Diono & Peg Perego Infant Car Seats Performed Poorly in CR Crash Tests
In 2 out of CR’s 3 rear-facing tests of the Diono LiteClik30 XT using a dummy to simulate the size (29 inches) and weight (22 pounds) of a 12-month-old child, and with the base of the seat installed with a seat belt, the infant carrier released off the base during the crash test. While the dummy remained secure within the…
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How to Handle Repairs From a Car Crash
What can get damaged: Many cars with AEB, ACC, lane centering assistance, and lane keeping assistance have cameras mounted inside the windshield. To replace the glass properly and make sure those features work again, a technician will also need to recalibrate the cameras. Other sensitive devices that live next to the windshield glass include rain sensors, electronically activated shade bands,…
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Do Kwon will be extradited to the US to face charges over Terra’s $40 billion crypto crash
“It was concluded that most of the criteria provided for by law support the extradition request of the competent authorities of the United States of America,” a machine-translated version of Montenegro’s Ministry of Justice’s statement said. It doesn’t say when Montenegro plans on releasing Kwon to the US. As noted by Bloomberg, it’s also unclear whether this decision is final,…
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Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ mode now under federal investigation after fatal crash
The NHTSA has opened an investigation into the Tesla automated driving mode, called Full Self-Driving (FSD) to evaluate the automated driving mode’s capabilities in low visibility conditions. The investigation was begun after at least four reports of crashes, including one from November 2023 in Rimrock, Arizona where a pedestrian was killed by a Tesla Model Y. As reported by TechCrunch,…
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Cars That Come With Free Automatic Crash Notification
Alfa ConnectFree trial period: 10 years.Additional features: Roadside assistance and stolen vehicle assistance.Availability: Available on select Alfa vehicles. OnStar (Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC)Free trial period: 8 years. Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC models will get the OnStar One Essentials plan, which includes ACN. The feature is transferable if the car is sold. A GM spokesperson said that the automaker chose…
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Eric Schmidt’s car crash Stanford interview showed big tech’s true colors on remote work
Eric Schmidt certainly ruffled a few feathers last week after a controversial interview at Stanford University – and it’s not hard to see why. Speaking to students, the former Google chief exec essentially suggested successful startups not worry about stealing IP and embarked on a diatribe about why remote work was the reason behind Google’s supposed poor performance in the…
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