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AUTOS' NEWS * WORLDWIDE - Fuel-Efficient Cars Dominate Auto Shows From Tokyo to Detroit
Stricter emissions standards in Europe, US, Japan highlight fuel needs at Tokyo show
USA -Automotive Digest -31 Oct 2007: -- But auto industry has not yet moved in unison toward reaching standards. Research ongoing for hybrids, fuel-cell, diesel technology at major automakers... Daimler, pioneer in fuel-cell, may be ready to launch technology on market soon... Daimler may have lease fuel-cell B-Class car in 2010, Honda FCX could launch 2008 Hybrids, diesels, fuel-cell driven cars dot auto shows as governments crack down... Europe hit hardest, emissions reductions may not be enough; ban on cars may come... A variety of technologies being tested, but automaker strategies not yet in place... Tokyo show highlights Toyota Hi-CT plug-in hybrid, Nissan Pivo2 electric concepts... Daimler CEO says electric cars emit too much CO2, looks to fuel-cell efficiency...
* Alcohol Interlocks Still Too Intrusive for General Driving Population
USA -Automotive Digest -31 Oct 2007: -- Alcohol interlock systems could save 1000s of lives each year... If technological, privacy impediments can be overcome... Most current interlocks require driver to blow into unit when starting, driving car... Saab, Volvo, Nissan, Toyota developing less intrusive systems... NHTSA administrator, Nicole Nason, says agency financing interlock research. But acknowledges that "we are years and years away from this technology"... IIHS estimates 9K lives/year could be saved, if drivers w/ blood alcohol of 0.08 stopped from driving... NHTSA: 40% of traffic deaths alcohol related, over 17,500 deaths in 2006 involving alcohol... MADD pushing to get courts to require interlocks for 1st offenders... ACLU, industry groups concerned about impact on sober drivers, triggering false alarms... NHTSA says won't recommend general use on new vehicles until technology more reliable...
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