CNBC's Phil LeBeau and Jim Lentz, Toyota North America CEO, discuss the automaker's plan to export Corollas built in Mississippi to Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
A Test of Smart Cars Gets Under Way
The following is
an excerpt from an article in
The New York Times
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
A Test of Smart Cars Gets Under Way
By BILL VLASIC
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Federal regulators on Tuesday announced a yearlong “smart car” project to determine whether wireless communication between vehicles can improve safety on the nation’s highways.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said 3,000 cars, buses and trucks in this city near Detroit would be equipped with data recorders and a technology akin to Wi-Fi that can transmit information about accidents or hazardous traffic conditions.
Drivers in the connected vehicles will be warned, for example, of sudden changes in traffic patterns or potential collisions through data transmitted from similarly equipped cars and roadside devices.
Mr. LaHood said the $25 million study would yield data useful in deciding whether the government should require such crash avoidance technology in future vehicles.
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