Massive Slingshot Called SpinLaunch Shoots NASA Stuff High-Up, It Survives
5 Oct 2022, 06:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / SpinLaunch conducted its tenth test launch last week, this time with cargo from potential clients NASA, Airbus, Cornell University, and Outpost
Toyota Recall Problems to Continue
26 Nov 2010, 14:07 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Since earning the title of the largest automaker in the world a couple of years ago, Toyota is now one of the most troubled companies. A year after being hit by a massive wave of 12 million recalls,...
Houston, Toyota Has a Problem: NASA Steps In
30 Mar 2010, 10:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / T minus 16 seconds: take foot of accelerator. T minus 10 seconds: put foot on brake pedal. 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... apply brake... 3... brake!... 2... BRAKE!!!... 1... brake fail, we have...
Brake Override Systems Explained
10 Mar 2010, 15:40 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Brake overriding is a thing since 1988, when BMW introduced this technology, yet it came to prominence in the 2010s after Toyota's sticky throttle pedal saga
Toyota Prius Accelerator Problems
9 Mar 2010, 08:27 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / After announcing an over-8-million-car recall worldwide, it would be an understatement to say that Toyota had a lot of fixing to do. The Japanese automaker needed to address the accelerator pedal pr...
How Toyota Brake Override Works
5 Mar 2010, 08:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In an attempt to put to rest increasing concerns that the fix to be implemented in the millions of vehicle recalled due to unintended acceleration, Japanese carmaker Toyota decided to detail how its...
Toyota Investigates Post-Fix Unintended Acceleration
5 Mar 2010, 07:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Taking note of the increasing number of reports claiming the unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles did not magically go away after the carmaker applied its acclaimed fix, the Japanese manufactu...
Toyota Fix Fixes Nothing
4 Mar 2010, 10:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The acclaimed fix to all accelerator problems for Japanese carmaker Toyota, installed these days in affected vehicles seems to be worthless, as more and more reports come to say the cars still accel...
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2009 Lexus Crash: More Details Emerge [AUDIO]
4 Mar 2010, 10:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NOTICE: The audio and video below contain elements which may be considered disturbing. Following last and this weeks' hearings in DC, a shroud of relative quiet seems to have settled over the T...
ABC News Videos Unintended Acceleration
23 Feb 2010, 11:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A very interesting story broke on the Internet yesterday, when ABC news released a video showing how a Toyota vehicle which experiences unintended acceleration behaves. The video shows David Gilbert...
Toyota Brags It Saved $100M with Cheap Accelerator Fix
22 Feb 2010, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If there were a book on how to poorly manage a disastrous situation, then it may as well have been called "Toyota Recall"... In the latest piece of news pushing Toyota even more towards th...
Toyota to Modify Stop Start Button
15 Feb 2010, 09:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Faced with serious concerns over its vehicles in recent months, Japanese carmaker Toyota is not only trying to find solutions to the problems which caused the recall of some 9 million cars, but appa...
Toyota Europe Admits Knowing about Sticky Pedal Since 2007
8 Feb 2010, 09:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Following reports which surfaced in the German media, which claimed the Japanese carmaker knew some of its vehicles are experiencing sticking pedals since 2007, Toyota's European division stepp...
Apple's Wozniak: Prius Accelerates on Its Own
3 Feb 2010, 08:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you ever needed a reliable source to tell you Toyota's nemesis, the renegade accelerator pedal, can also be found in the carmaker's hybrid, then here it is. Apple's co-founder, Ste...
Two More Toyota Accidents Reported
2 Feb 2010, 09:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The huge recall announced by Japanese carmaker Toyota was poised to give birth, at one point or another, to more and more accident claims. While it is not our place to judge the truth behind some of...
Toyota's Lentz Talks Gibberish on the Today Show
1 Feb 2010, 14:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As we told you earlier today, Toyota's US CEO Jim Lentz went on the Today Show on NBC to try and talk some sense into all those Toyota owners who got spooked by the sticking accelerator pedal. ...
Eureka: Toyota Finds Fix for Accelerator Pedal
1 Feb 2010, 13:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As hinted in media reports throughout last week, Japanese carmaker Toyota detailed today how it plans to fix the potentially faulty accelerator pedal in the gazillion vehicles it has recalled so far...
Toyota Fallout: Ford Stops Transit Classic Production in China
29 Jan 2010, 10:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just as a precaution, American manufacturer Ford and its Chinese partner, Jiangling Motors, announced the halt in production of the diesel version of the Transit Classic. The reason behind the decis...
Toyota Incidents in Europe: 26 (and Counting?)
29 Jan 2010, 09:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After yesterday the European arm of Japanese carmaker Toyota announced it will begin recalling cars equipped with faulty accelerators on the Old Continent, the number of related incidents was reveal...
Toyota Recall and Suspension of Sales – What You Need to Know
28 Jan 2010, 07:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The snowballing effect caused by Toyota's two huge recalls and the suspension of sales for certain US models has prompted the Japanese manufacturer into releasing, for the second time in a week...