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http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2014/10/06/us-considers-vehicle-electronics-rules/16803473/ Washington — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday it is considering imposing vehicle electronic requirements and asked major automakers to consider if voluntary stand...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/09/28/gm-chevrolet-corvette-valet-mode-spying/16336573/ General Motors is warning Chevrolet Corvette buyers and owners not to use one of the car's most exotic high-tech features because it could inadvertently result in committing a crime in some states. ...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102036241 Ford Motor said it will recall about 850,000 cars in the United States to fix a software glitch that could lead to a short circuit, delaying the deployment of airbags in the event of a crash. The affected cars are 2013-2014 models Ford C-MAX, Fusion, Escape and Linco...

http://gizmodo.com/the-weird-pattern-on-this-girls-eyeball-came-from-an-ai-1598202135 http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--GO9FA7wR--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/791361831736306350.png Airbags certainly do save lives, but getting hit in the face at 200 mph—even by a bag of air—is ...

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/06/28/2015-ford-mustang-911-assist-sync-video/ When the 2015 Ford Mustang hits dealers, it will be with a new batch of features that will power up Sync's 911 Assist feature, and provide an even greater degree of information to first responders in the event of an accident...

http://www.autonews.com/article/20140625/RETAIL/140629914/gm-suspends-sale-of-2013-14-chevrolet-cruze-for-potential-airbag DETROIT -- General Motors told U.S. and Canadian dealers to temporarily halt delivery on Wednesday of some 2013 and 2014 Chevrolet Cruze sedans because of a potential problem wi...

http://www.post-gazette.com/business/legal/2014/06/10/Vehicle-Speed-Information-From-Black-Box-Ruled-Admissible/stories/201406100007 The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that information retrieved from a vehicle’s “event data recorder” — akin to an airplane’s “black box” — is admissible to esta...

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/25674517/crash-investigators-learn-valuable-lessons-at-motor-speedway [vimeo,750,421]http://www.vimeo.com/97271395[/vimeo] LAS VEGAS -- Car crashes happen on southern Nevada roads every day, causing billions of dollars in economic and societal harm each year. However, i...

It is that time of the year again, the ARC CSI Crash Conference is scheduled to begin this coming Monday June 2nd at 9:00 AM (PDT). Once again, we will attempt to stream the entire crash day LIVE on Ustream.com. The stream is live using this link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/arc-csi-vegas-2014 or ...

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/2014-toyota-highlander-recalled-over-passenger-airbag-software-glitch-81812.html A couple of months ago Toyota announced a voluntary recall involving its new Highlander model, which seemed to have some problems with the safety restrain system on its third row of sea...

http://newsdesk.gmu.edu/2014/05/new-center-lands-8-5-million-award-study-vehicle-collisions-safety/ New Center Lands $8.5 Million Award to Study Vehicle Collisions and Safety The Center for Collision Safety and Analysis (CCSA) at George Mason University recently won an $8.5 million award from the U....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/insurance/motorinsurance/10795545/Blackbox-exposes-a-54000-car-insurance-fraud.html Estimates suggest that 380 fraudulent claims are made to insurance companies daily, adding around £50 to all drivers’ premiums. Three people who fraudulently tried t...

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/motorcycle-black-box-data-remains-private-lawmakers-propose-80091.html US Senators John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) seem to be more concerned about actually doing their job and working closer to the ones who voted for them, and in their benefit, as t...

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/04/10/senate-votes-car-black-box-data-private/ Drivers are one step safer to having improved privacy behind the wheel. The Senate Commerce Committee has granted bipartisan approval to legislation that aims to protect the information on automotive Event Data Recorders (ED...

Success! :!: Since this program worked perfectly last year for the ARC CSI Boot Camp training, I decided to look on web.archive.com for an older version of the software. The current version (as of 4/11/14) is v13.11.20. I was able to find a copy of v12.10.24 on the internet archive. I installed it ...

Blog post from Elon Musk: https://medium.com/p/544f35965a0d In 2013, two extremely unusual Model S collisions resulted in underbody damage that led to car fires. These incidents, unfortunately, received more national headlines than the other 200,000 gasoline car fires that happened last year in Nort...

http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/05/4939746/black-boxes-in-vehicles-show-the.html Kim Morris didn’t want to know all the painful details about the wreck that killed her 16-year-old daughter in 2009. But she wanted Kansas City police to figure them out — for justice’s sake. Police did, with the help...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/business/barriers-wall-off-the-facts-of-gm-car-crashes.html There is anger that General Motors did not come forward sooner with information about its faulty cars. There is grief that loved ones were lost in crashes that might have been preventable. And there is outr...

I have been running into the same issue recently. It worked on my windows 7 laptop last summer, but it seems there is a newer version that closes before it really begins. I hope Jeff can get some answers from NHTSA. Does anyone have an older version we can try on Windows 7 and Windows 8? Does anyone...

http://www.ducatiuk.com/news/ducati_announces_world_s_first_production_motorcycle_wirelessly_integrated_with_airbag_riding_jackets___the_multistrada_d_air_/2014/03/21/3147/index.do http://i.imgur.com/FbJLZUx.png · Ducati introduces first ever production motorcycle wirelessly integrated with airbag r...