For a moment, I hesitated. The on-ramp to the highway was short, traffic was charging up the right lane, and I was driving a sedan with a four-cylinder engine.
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U.S. weighs second penalty against Toyota
U.S. weighs second penalty against Toyota Federal safety regulators find that ‘two separate defects’ exist in sticking accelerator pedals, but that the ongoing recall may address only one. Federal safety regulators are weighing a second penalty against Toyota Motor Corp. for its handling of the recall of 2.3 million cars and trucks with accelerator pedals […]
Toyota Exec Warned on Defect: “We Need to Come Clean”
Toyota Exec Warned on Defect: “We Need to Come Clean” A senior Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> executive in the United States warned in a January email that the automaker needed to “come clean” on a safety defect that caused accelerator pedals to become stuck open. The January 16 email from Irv Miller, then Toyota’s top […]
Physicist held in France over ‘terror links’
A man arrested in France on suspicion of links to terrorist organizations is a physicist who was working with the agency known for being home of the Large Hadron Collider — the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. Talks between American diplomat George Mitchell and Netanyahu focused on efforts to restart the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and the two men agreed to continue their discussions in the coming days, the minister’s office said
Big Bang machine detectors will be ‘even more perfect’
On a recent episode of South Park, Mr. Marsh steals a particle accelerator magnet so his son Stan can win the Pinewood Derby.