Tag: vehicles
Ford to recall over 650,000 pickups
Ford is recalling over 650,000 F-150 pickup trucks because of a faulty brake hose. "Ford Motor Co is recalling over 650,000 of its top-selling F-150 pickups as well as a Lincoln-branded truck because of a problem with the brake hose that could cause the vehicles to lose...
Sudan says rebel attack on Khartoum defeated
Darfur's government is saying that the attack earlier today in a suburb of Khartoum by Sudanese troops was defeated."It was the first time fighting had reached the city in decades of conflict between the...
Toyota recalls 90,000 Highlanders over seat belts
Toyota is recalling 90,000 2008 Highlanders and Highlander hybrid sport utility vehicles due to potential problems with securing child safety seats in the third row seats."The locking mechanism on the seat belts...
Congestion charge has had no effect on reducing L...
Air quality and pollution have not been reduced in London by the introduction of the city centre congestion charges, a study has found."Researchers found that the introduction of the controversial charging zone in...
Hyundai Sonata Recall
Hyundai has announced that they will be recalling over 300,000 Sonata vehicles. The recall affects vehicles equipped with an advanced air bag system. The recall is expected to start end of...
Teen thrown to her death in bus crash in Alberta,...
A 17 year-old girl was on her way to the back of the school bus to go to school yesterday morning in Rimbey, Alberta, when the bus was struck by a gravel truck and she was ejected from the bus and died from her injuries. Her name was Jennifer Dawn Noble and she dreamed of...
Toyota Recalls 539,500 Corollas, Matrixes
Do you have a rattling window on your Corolla or Matrix? Your vehicle might be part of Toyota's huge recall announced today, for 2003-2004 models sold in the United States. "WASHINGTON — Toyota Motor Corp. is...
Small plane crashes into houses, UK
"Five people are believed to have been on board a private plane that has crashed into residential properties in north Kent, England.Officers were called to the scene in Broadwater Gardens, Farnborough, at around 2.30pm, the Metropolitan Police said.A spokesman said five...
10 Car Crash on Golden Gate Bridge Injures 16
Massive Pile-up Injures 16 On Golden Gate Bridge
Raw Video of Chopper view of Golden Gate Bridge Hwy 101 Pile up http://cbs5.com/video/?id=32575@kpix.dayport.com
Update: 4:27 P 7:27 E, 23:27 GMT"SAN FRANCISCO (CBS...
Mass motorway pile-up in Austria
This motorway has seen previoues fatal accidents but nothing of this scale before. The crash involved at least 60 vehicles and has closed the highway in both directions. If you have any footage or information please share it with us. "A big motorway pile-up in western Austria...
How Biodiesel Fuel-Cells Could Power The Future (...
This could be a really big deal as a transition to the hydrogen economy:"After years of development, the Washington-based company InnovaTek is testing a hand-sized microreactor that can convert virtually any liquid...
Call for UN to intervene in Tibet violence
"Tibet's government-in-exile has demanded the United Nations intervene to end what it called 'urgent human rights violations' by China following deadly protests in Tibet.
The exiled government in Dharamshala in northern India, home to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama,...
30 killed in Chinese crackdown
30 people were killed in the continued Chinese crackdown going on in Tibet. The US has only called on China to "exercise restraint" , but has not called for a boycott of the Olympics. Is China...
The Surprise Cost of Non-Polluting Electric Vehicles
"Even though automakers and environmentalists are pushing new
electric and hybrid electric cars, claiming less pollution to make our Mother
Earth unhappy with our wasteful ways, it seems they come with demons of their
own. Well, maybe not so much.
The media has certainly...
Unmanned aerial vehicles for law enforcement oper...
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The Miami-Dade Police Department is experimenting with using unmanned aerial vehicles for law enforcement operations.
Earlier attempts by other agencies to use unmanned drone aircraft have been shot down by the FAA. Miami-Dade and the Houston Police Department were...
