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How It Works: Electric Blue, the 175mph Electric Car

Before Electric Blue sped across Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats at 175 miles an hour late last year, no one had made an official attempt to set a speed record for battery-powered racecars weighing less than 1,100 pounds. Other ...
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Gallery: Best Of What’s New In Auto Tech, 2012

Grand Award Winner: Tesla Model S The Tesla Model S sets the standard by which all future electric vehicles will be measured. It’s faster than any other street-legal EV: The Performance edition, propelled by motors that gener...
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Innovations in Driving: The Seat Belt

I remember the precise moment when I vowed never to drive, or even ride, in a car without wearing a snugged-up seat belt. It was the afternoon of Sunday, May 25, 1975, during ABC’s broadcast – tape-delayed back in those day...
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Volvo’s New Exterior Airbags Protect Pedestrians

Volvo, the Swedish carmaker known for its safety engineering (a Volvo engineer invented the modern 3-point seat belt), has turned their focus to keeping those outside the car safe too. Starting with their Volvo V40, they’...
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Gallery: The Best of the 2012 Detroit Auto Show

The 2013 Ford Fusion was without a doubt one of the stars of this year’s Detroit show. What does it say about the auto industry that a vehicle as humdrum as a Ford Fusion was the star of the most important North American ...
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Cadillac’s Tiniest Car Is Also One Of Its Most Technologically Advanced

Long a purveyor of lumbering land barges, Cadillac has released its first compact sedan in more than 30 years: the ATS. Engineers designed the ATS to compete with BMW’s renowned 3-Series. To make it fast and agile, they repla...
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The Smart Highway

Online Content Director: Suzanne LaBarre | EmailSenior Editor: Paul Adams | EmailAssociate Editor: Dan Nosowitz | EmailAssistant Editor: Colin Lecher | EmailAssistant Editor:Rose Pastore | Email Contributing Writers:<!–...
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Video: Blind Driver Takes Google’s Autonomous Car for a Spin

Future self-driving cars could make traffic smoother and safer, among plenty of other potential benefits, but one thing you don’t hear much about — and should — is their utility for people with physical limitations. For e...
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CES 2013: Lexus Unveils Autonomous ‘Safety Research’ Car

At CES today, Lexus showcased an “Advanced Active Safety Research Vehicle,” a souped-up LS being used as a testbed for autonomous car technology. “Our goal is to eliminate future traffic fatalities and injurie...
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