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DOT Enters the Blogsphere

DOT Fast LaneBloggersBlog.com is reporting that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has launched a new blog called Fast Lane. The blog was launched by Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters. Here is an excerpt from Peters' welcome post.
Welcome to the Department of Transportation's blog, Fast Lane.

This new opportunity will allow me and others here at the Department to speak with you and engage in an earnest conversation about our nation's transportation system...and, I hope, have a little fun while we're doing it.

I want the Fast Lane to be a true on-line community, and I encourage you to submit your comments and thoughts. After all, if I'm going to insist on twenty-first century solutions for our transportation system, I better communicate in a twenty-first century way!

Our entire transportation system is at a critical point in its evolution, and I am excited about the transformation taking place every day. I can't wait to begin sharing with you the innovative things we are doing at the Department to make our roads, skies, rails, and seaways safer and more efficient.
The blog has already featured guest blog posts from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and Virginia Governor Tim Kaine. There have only been a few comments next to each post so far but that number is likely to grow as more people learn about the new blog.

Posted on May 1, 2008
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RMA Survey Finds Many Motorists Are Not Tire Smart

Man Checking TiresThe Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA) wants drivers to know that checking for proper tire pressure can save lives and reduce fuel costs. Proper tire pressure can save motorists as much as $0.10 per gallon at the pump according to the RMA. More importantly under inflated tires can cause accidents that could have been easily avoided.
Record high gas prices should be an incentive for motorists to take every step possible to help make their cars and their money go further," said Dan Zielinski, RMA senior vice president, public affairs. "While our survey found that 61 percent of motorists agreed that checking tire pressure is very important to maximizing fuel economy, only one in seven drivers properly perform this easy task."

Checking tires is not only a fuel saving tip, it can also be life saving. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), under inflated tires contribute to 660 fatalities and 33,000 injuries each year. NHTSA estimates that about one in four cars, and one in three light trucks, have at least one significantly under inflated tire.

Under inflated tires also cause premature tire wear that can force consumers to replace tires sooner. "Consumers can help their wallets and the environment by paying attention to their tires so they last as long as possible, reducing disposal needs," Zielinski added.
They recently ran a study that found many drivers are not tire savvy.

  • Forty-six percent of drivers wrongly believe the correct inflation pressure is printed on the tire sidewall
  • Twenty-six percent of drivers wrongly believe the best time to check tires is when they are warm
  • Only one out of every three drivers knows how to tell if tires are bald

    The RMA recommends motorists check tire pressure at least monthly using a tire guage. The recommended tire pressure can be found on a label placed on the driver's door or in the owner's manual
    RMA recommends that tire pressure be checked at least once every month with a tire gauge. The recommended tire pressure for every vehicle is set by vehicle manufacturers and can be found on a label usually placed on the driver's door or check the owner's manual. Also, tires should be checked when cold, or haven't been driven for at least three hours.

    During National Tire Safety Week, RMA and its partners will promote tire care education to motorists throughout the country. More than 18,000 tire dealers, auto dealers, AAA clubs and others throughout the country will provide RMA tire care information brochures to consumers. Additionally, most tire retail locations provide free tire pressure services to motorists throughout the year.

    "Our goal during National Tire Safety Week is to encourage all motorists to take five minutes to be tire smart and help save lives, save fuel and save the environment," Zielinski said.
    More tire safety tips can be found here on the betiresmart.org website.



    Posted on April 21, 2008
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  • Hybrid Cars Too Quiet for the Blind?

    Hybrid cars may be too quiet for blind people. They cannot hear the quiet motors of some of today's hybrids. The Associated Press says lawmakers are considering a bill that might require the cars to have a noise that makes it easier for people that cannot see them to be able to hear them.



    Posted on April 11, 2008
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    Tata Arrives With Jaguar, Land Rover Deal

    Tata LogoTata made headlines in the world's newspapers and business magazines when it agreed to purchase Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford at the end of March. As the Oakland Press notes the possibility of a deal had been in the news since January. The article also says the deal is the first signal of Tata's "arrival as a true global automaker."
    Ratan N. Tata, the ambitious chairman of Tata Sons Ltd. and Tata Motors, had already grabbed headlines in January, when he unveiled the $2,500 Nano, which is already having a major effect on the thinking of other carmakers around the world.

    Michael Robinet, vice president of forecasting services for CSM Worldwide Inc. of Northville, said the Nano offers Tata an opportunity to reach a "virgin segment" of buyers not served by any other manufacturer. "The people it is aimed at were riding mopeds," he said.

    The unveiling of the Nano fulfilled the commitment by Ratan Tata, who had nurtured the project in the face of universal skepticism about whether he could put an inexpensive vehicle on the road. "It's a car that is affordable, provides transport, meets all safety norms, emission norms -- present and future -- and will be a reliable form of transport and will provide Indian families an 'all-weather' means of safe transport," he said after the car was introduced.

    Tata has now turned up the heat on its competitors, Robinet said. Rivals will either have to try to match the Nano or leave the segment to Tata. The core of the Tata Motors engineering team worked in secrecy for more than three years, and the price target was reached by improvisation and not by cutting corners on essentials, Robinet said after the Nano appeared in January.
    Ford shareholders were probably happy to see Jaguar go. Marketwatch wrote ahead of the deal that "a potential deal would finally mark an end to a costly marriage that spanned 20 years of losses and declining sales at Jaguar." Those costs and problems will now belong to Tata. It will be interesting to see what the Indian auto manufacturer is able to do with Jaguar, Land Rover and their cheap Nano line. Will Tata emerge in five to ten years as one of the automotive leaders or will they struggle to keep up with demand or get mirred in costs with Jaguar like Ford did?

    Posted on April 5, 2008
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    AirCar Plugged at New York Auto Show

    A prototype flying car called the Milner AirCar debuted at the New York Auto Show. You can find more information on the Milner Motors website. The Milner AirCar will cost an estimated price of half-a-million dollars. Reuters says "you could buy a Cessna and a Bentley instead of the AirCar and still have money left over." That's true but that wouldn't be as cool as having a flying car.



    Posted on March 26, 2008
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    Future New York Taxi?

    Ford Motors has come up with a taller but shorter taxi cab. Shorter cabs mean more taxi cabs can fit on the road. The cab has lots of storage space for luggage and is 30% more fuel efficient than today's cabs.

    Ford Transit Connect


    Fred Katayama reports on the new taxi from the New York International Auto Show in the Reuters video clip below. One interesting feature in these new taxis is an orb called the "Sputnik" that you put your money in and turn to pay the cab driver. Automotive News Europe has an article on the new cab. CNET has a slide show. Ford's website also has photos.



    Posted on March 22, 2008
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    Tesla Motors Raising $250 Million For New Vehicle

    Tesla Motors in the company behind the Tesla Roadster - an impressive electric sports car that costs $98,000. You can read articles on the Tesla Roadster here and here and watch a video of a road test here. Now Business Week is reporting that Tesla is planning a cheaper four-door vehicle. They are raising $250 million to create the factory needed to build these new cars.
    Tesla started its mission out of Silicon Valley two years ago, getting funding from a slew of the tech industry's big players. The result is the $98,000 roadster (BusinessWeek, 7/30/07) that goes 220 miles on a charge and can reach 60 mph in a tire-screeching 3.9 seconds.

    Sales are small right now. But Tesla has firm orders for the company's first 600-to be built this year. Another 400 buyers have put down $5,000 deposits for the first 400 cars the company will build next year, says Daryl Siry, the company's vice-president of marketing.

    By 2010, Tesla plans to build a less expensive four-door that comes as either a pure electric car or a plug-in hybrid, which would get better range than a conventional gasoline-electric hybrid because it relies more on its electric motors to drive the car. Tesla is in the process of raising another $250 million for a factory for the next car, which Siry says should come out around 2010. Says Siry, "We invested in desirable, eco-friendly cars."
    It sounds like a smart move for Tesla to take the good buzz they have generated from the electric sports car and use it to launch a new car that more drivers can afford.

    Pictured below is the 2008 Tesla Roadster which is now in production. Prototypes of Tesla's next line of cars have not yet been made available.

    2008 Tesla Roadster


    Posted on March 18, 2008
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    $5 a Gallon Gas in Gorda, California

    In the CBS News video below reporter John Blackstone reports from a scenic, remote and expensive gas station in California. The gas is $5.19 a gallon for regular at the Americo gas station in Gorda, California. They won't even list the price on their sign because it is so expensive. The next stop Big Sur is forty miles from Gorda so many drivers have no choice but to fill up.



    Posted on March 13, 2008
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    New Oscar Mayer Weinermobile

    Oscar Mayer Weinermobile 125th


    How often are new weinermobiles created? In the photo above New York Giant Michael Strahan presents the new Mini Wienermobile in Times Square, New York City. The vehicle was created in celebration of the Oscar Mayer 125th anniversary, and to debut its new line of Mini Hot Dogs. There wouldn't be a point to the weinermobile if you didn't have some new hot dogs to promote.

    Posted on March 12, 2008
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    Gas Prices to Keep Climbing

    Gas StationReuters reports that gas prices have climbed to nearly $3.20 for a national average. Experts believe gas prices have much higher to climb still with another 20 to 30 cent increase to come in April.
    Gasoline prices are rising sharply as refiners, who have kept prices down in order to compete for sales, become more willing to pass on their higher costs of crude oil, according to an industry analyst on Sunday.

    The national average for self-serve regular unleaded gas was nearly $3.20 a gallon on March 7, up about 9.44 cents per gallon in the past two weeks, according to the nationwide Lundberg survey of about 7,000 gas stations. The price has risen 64 cents per gallon in the past 12 months.

    "The price increase was entirely due to the higher costs of crude oil," said survey editor Trilby Lundberg.

    Although the latest price represents a nominal all-time high, when adjusted for inflation it is a smidgen below the record of $3.18 per gallon reached on May 18, 2007, Lundberg said.

    Lundberg said things will likely get worse, with prices at the pump rising 20 to 30 cents per gallon in the next month as refiners begin passing on to customers more of their higher costs for crude oil.
    With the cost of oil now hitting $107 a barrel it is possible that the national average gas price could eclipse the $4 a gallon mark during the summer driving season.

    The AAA's Fuel Guage Report has the nationwide average price at $3.222 - just one half cent short of the all-time record high of 3.227 that was set on May 24, 2007.

    Photo source: Goldberg

    Posted on March 10, 2008
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    Rinspeed's Zero Emission Diving Car

    Rinspeed Squba


    WSJ.com's David Patton takes a closer look at auto maker Rinspeed. Rinspeed is unveiling the first zero emission diving car (the sQuba) at the Geneva Auto Show.



    The James Bond style car has made a big splash in the blogosphere and in auto magazines (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here) thanks to this cool video they made. The video shows that the vehicle can do exactly what it claims. A CBS story says the sQuba prototype cost $1.5 million to make. If they make a limited number of the vehicles for sale to customers the price may drop below $400,000 - a more affordable price for some.



    Posted on March 7, 2008
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    Men Looking For Cars From Their Youth

    In this video WSJ's Jennifer Saranow reports on some older men who are trying to reconnect with the the automobiles of their youth. Not just a similar car but the actual car they drove when they were younger. Some men are even posting ads to try to find their old cars. Not everyone is going to find their old cars because they may have been salvaged. Some are satisfied with a vehicle that is the same make as their old vehicle.



    Posted on March 3, 2008
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    Analysts Expect Gas Prices of $3.5 to $4 This Summer

    With oil over trading over $100 a barrel many analysts are projecting gas prices to soar to record levels this summer with a peak in May or June. The Associated Press reports that predictions range from $3.5 to $4 a gallon for the peak national average gas price. That would be a good 25 to 75 cents above last year's record of $3.227 a gallon.
    Many analysts believe gas prices will rise this spring to new records near $3.75 or $4 a gallon. But not everyone agrees.

    Ritterbusch, for example, thinks the high level of supplies, and an eventual decline in oil prices, will pull pump prices down. He doubts prices will rise as high as $3.75 without a major overseas supply disruption or domestic refinery outage.

    But Tom Kloza, publisher and chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service in Wall, N.J., argues that while gasoline prices won't rise as much this spring as they have in previous years, they are starting from a much higher level. Indeed, prices at the moment are 83 cents higher than a year ago. That means retail prices could peak between $3.50 and $3.75 a gallon, Kloza said, well above May's record of $3.227 a gallon.

    The Energy Department's latest forecast calls for gas prices to peak near $3.40 a gallon this spring.

    Of course, gasoline prices also respond to oil futures. Oil has traded in a band between about $86 and $100 a barrel for months, a trend many analysts expect to continue throughout the year. That will likely keep gas prices oscillating in their own narrow band around $3 a gallon for most of the year.
    Any unexpected activity like a bad hurricane season or a disruption in the oil supply would spike gas prices even higher than these already ugly predictions.

    Posted on February 22, 2008
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    Odometer on Man's Pickup Passes 1 Million Miles

    Frank Oresnik has driven his 1991 Chevrolet Silverado past the 1 million mile mark reports the Shawano Leader.
    Oresnick uses this perspective: He's had the oil changed more than 300 times. In fact, the oil's been changed so often, the oil pan drain plug has needed rethreading. Several times.

    "You never hear of that," Oresnick said.

    Most other people look at it this way: The odometer rolled past the 1 million mile mark on Friday.

    That's right - 1,000,000 miles.

    "I won't say it was relief ... it was exhilarating," Oresnick said Friday night during a stop in Gresham. "This truck has been so dependable over the years."
    There's also stories about Oresnick and his reliable Chevy pickup at the Detroit Free Press, NPR and ESPN. They are also discussing this news on the Chevrolet Forum. Chevy may have to set up a new club just for Oresnik and any future 1 million milers. Hat tip On Deadline.

    Posted on February 19, 2008
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    Buckle Up Miley Cyrus

    Miley Cyrus has been busted by Consumer Reports. The Associated Press reports that the 15-year-old actress and singing sensation was caught without a seat belt in the back seat of a Range River in her hit movie Hannah Montana/ Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour. You can read the Consumer Reports blog post here. In it Consumer Reports explains why seat bealts are so important.
    Why should we care? Because, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in about 55 percent of passenger vehicle fatalities in 2006 (the latest data available), the occupants were not wearing seat belts. Even worse, in the 13- to 15-year-old age group, that percentage climbs to 65 percent. Unfortunately, we're not surprised by these grim statistics because a 2002 survey by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety showed that when parents were dropping teens off at school in the morning, nearly half the teens weren't using seat belts.


    Posted on February 13, 2008
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    GM Offers Buyouts to 74,000 Hourly Workers

    General Motors is looking to cut payrolls. They are offering a buyout to all 74,000 of its U.S. hourly workers. Last year the company reported a huge $39 billion loss.
    GM's annual loss of $38.7 billion largely was due to a third-quarter charge related to unused tax credits.

    The 2007 loss topped GM's previous record in 1992, when the company lost $23.4 billion because of a change in health care accounting, according to Standard & Poor's Compustat.

    Excluding the tax charge and other special items, GM lost $23 million, or 4 cents per share, for the year, compared with a net income of $2.2 billion in 2006, beating Wall Street's expectations. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expected GM to post a full-year loss of 95 cents per share.

    For the fourth quarter, GM posted a loss of $722 million, or $1.28 per share, in the fourth quarter, compared with a net income of $950 million in the year-ago quarter. Fourth-quarter charges included $622 million to Delphi Corp., GM's former parts division, for its restructuring efforts.
    Reuters says GM thinks economic conditions will improve by the second half of 2008.



    Posted on February 12, 2008
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    India's Cheap Tata Nano

    Tata Nano


    Meet the world's cheapest car. The Tata Nano will retail for about $2,500. The Times Online compares the price of the Tata Nano to the price of a DVD player in a Lexus. They say the car's manufacturer Tata cuts costs by minimizing components and by relying on cheap production costs in India. It is also a tiny car - just 3 meters long. But Tata claims they didn't cut corners on safety.
    Tata cut costs by minimising components, particularly steel, and taking advantage of India's low production costs. Because of its size, it uses less sheet metal, has a smaller and lighter engine than other cars, smaller tube-less tyres and a no-frills interior. The company has applied for 34 patents to cover its innovations. "We shrunk it, made the engine smaller and used fewer materials but we haven't taken any shortcuts in term of safety or emissions," Mr Tata said.

    The car will be sold first in India from the second half of this year, with an initial annual production run of 250,000, but it is expected to be made available in Latin America, SouthEast Asia and Africa. It could find its way to Europe in a few years but enhancements to meet higher standards would raise the price considerably.
    Tata Motors is billing the Naon as "The People's Car." Other articles on the Nano can be found at Wheels, Treehugger, Edmunds, Global Voices, Winding Road, Leftlanenews, CNBC, Auto Motto, Christian Science Monitor and BusinessWeek.

    Posted on February 1, 2008
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    Fed Lets States Delay Important Bridge Inspections

    Is the federal government determined to have another bridge disaster like what happened in Minneapolis earlier this year? That would seem to be the case. MSNBC explains in a detailed article that the government has allowed states to delay inspections even on the more riskier bridges. Here are some bullet points from the article.
  • The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required. While most states don't use this loophole, calling it unsafe, others drive a truck through it: Nationally, 30,000 bridges are listed on the delayed-inspection schedules, including 10,000 in Illinois alone and more than 3,000 on interstate highways.
  • Bridges in poor condition have been allowed on these delayed timetables in violation of federal guidelines. Although federal and state officials are bound by law to closely monitor the schedules, their own records show thousands of bridges on delayed-inspection schedules — despite being too decayed, too long or too heavily traveled to qualify.
  • "Fracture-critical" bridges like the Minneapolis bridge, which could collapse if one part fails, have remained on delayed-inspection schedules in violation of federal regulations. The records show 622 of these vulnerable bridges on four-year timetables.
  • Even after the deadly collapse in Minneapolis, the haphazard system of inspections continued, with federal authorities choosing not to require re-inspection of more than 18,000 fracture-critical bridges. In a survey of every state by msnbc.com, only five states and the District of Columbia said they began to recheck all their fracture-critical bridges. The rest checked only the few hundred bridges of the particular deck-truss design used in Minneapolis.
  • Federal agencies that own bridges have some of the worst records for on-time inspections. Nearly 3,000 bridges owned by U.S. government agencies went more than two years between checkups.
  • MSNBC also found that there are 1,630 bridges in the U.S. to violate a list of inspection criteria. They also uncovered that there are 622 fracture-critical bridges in the National Bridge Inventory that are on schedules for delayed inspection. On an ironic note MSNBC also found some bridges in need of inspection along federal highway administrator J. Richard Capka's route to and from work.

    Posted on January 31, 2008
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    Car Prices May Climb

    General Motors Corp.'s chief financial officer Fritz Henderson told the Associated Press that car prices may rise because of increased prices on raw materials, increased technology costs and fuel regulations from the government.
    Fritz Henderson said the industry has less manufacturing capacity than in the past and therefore less pressure to sell vehicles cheaply just to move inventory.

    It also faces higher raw materials costs, rising technology costs and increased costs from fuel economy and other government regulations, he said.

    While the U.S. market still is competitive, "you could potentially see a significant change from what we've seen in the last eight or 10 years," Henderson said during a speech to the Automotive Press Association in Detroit.

    Henderson said he didn't know when prices might start to rise, but he sees pressures because costs already have gone up and automakers are spending a great deal on new technology. GM has also reduced its sales to low-profit fleet buyers such as rental car companies, he said.
    When will this price increase happen? Fritz Henderson doesn't know. He told the AP: "You're going to see a lot of costs in the car today that's already happened, whether its steel or raw materials or precious metals, and then you combine the technology on top of it, and I think you're going to see pressure. The question is when does it manifest itself in the market? I don't know."

    Some foreign car manufacturers keep coming up with cheaper cars making it difficult for domestic car makers to raise prices.

    Posted on January 30, 2008
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    Audi A8 is Robb Report's Car of the Year

    2008 Audi A8


    The Audi R8 is the Robb Report's choice for Car of the Year for 2008. It's a fast, lightweight vehicle with a V-8 engine. Audi is planning to sell about 200 of the luxury vehicles in the U.S. this year. Autoblog reports that the voting was very close.
    It was apparently "the closest voting in the award's recent history," which is not hard to understand based on the depth of the field. The stupendous machinery trumped by the R8 includes the Ferrari 599, 911 Turbo Cabriolet, Bentley Continental GT Speed, and Aston Martin Vantage V8. The award is decided by automotive professionals as well as Robb Report readers privileged enough to join in. Coming from a magazine that caters to people who can have anything, and often want people to know just how much they spent on everything, Audi's award is no small beer.
    Here's a video on the the Robb Report's decision.



    Posted on January 28, 2008
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    2008 Detroit Auto Show Highlights

    Here are some highlights from the 2008 Detroit Auto Show.

  • Reuters says Tato's $2500 Nano car is the talk of the show.
  • Consumer Report's car blog blogs about three tiny yellow Chinese electric cars they found at the Detroit Auto Show.
  • The Auto Channel has a video showing Kid Rock, Mary J Blige, Maroon 5 at a GM party in Detroit.
  • Toby Keith helped introduce the 2009 Ford F150.
  • A lot of blogs and news outlets are discussing the Fisker Karma, a "plug-in hybrid luxury Grand Touring four-door four-seater expected to go into production in the fall of 2009, with a price around $80,000 US."
  • Jalopnik tried to find the most fetching selection of spokesmodels.
  • MyRideTV has a video of the 2008 Dodge Viper SRT.
  • Car Scoop looks at what's new in the 2008 Ford Five hundred.
  • Toyota and Ford show off their plug-in hybrids.
  • Car and Caboodle has a good link roundup that includes links to Motherproof's coverage as well as Autotopia's post about the Lincoln MKT.
  • Jalopnik takes a close look ath the 2008 Mazda Furai.
  • 14UNews reports on the 2009 Ford Glass Roof Mustang.
  • Popular Mechanics has an article about the 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart.
  • The Wall Street Journal's auto show tracker blog created an interactive look at the cool concepts fromt the show.
  • Other resources include Portfolio, Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, New York Times, Wikipedia and the Official Website.
  • Photo galleries: CNET, Autospies, MSN

    Posted on January 19, 2008
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