• Toyota invests $50m in autonomous cars

    • September 8, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Toyota is making a major investment into developing intelligent and self-driving vehicles alongside two leading US universities. Over the next five years, Toyota Motor Corporation will invest approximately $50 million (about £32 million) in establishing joint research centres at both Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to further its expertise in computer science and human-machine interaction with [...]
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  • FCA recall 7,000 SUVs in US

    • September 7, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said on Friday it would recall 7,810 sport utility vehicles in the United States to update software for radios to prevent hacking. The announcement by FCA, comes more than a month after the company recalled about 1.4 million vehicles in the United States for the software update. Security researchers used the Internet [...]
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  • Nissan recall 300,000 cars in US

    • September 7, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Nissan’s North America division said it would recall about 300,000 vehicles in the United States and 28,000 vehicles in Canada to adjust a console panel. The affected vehicles have a console trim panel that may catch the driver’s shoe and potentially impede smooth pedal operation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on its [...]
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  • Axalta signs partnership with University

    • September 3, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Axalta Coating Systems today signed a partnership agreement with the University of Oviedo, Spain. The first stage of this partnership will involve Axalta offering students internships at the company’s offices in Asturias, starting in November 2015. Four of the University’s best students, chosen based on their academic record, will be offered a six-month internship to [...]
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  • 19 million airbags still need repaired

    • September 3, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Safety regulators in the US have stated that about 19 million defective Takata Corp air bag inflators remain installed in U.S. vehicles, and that the cause of the problem has yet to be identified. About 19.2 million vehicles containing a total of 23.4 million air bag inflators made by 11 automakers have been recalled, a NHTSA official said. The inflator [...]
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