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...Monday, Toyota released preliminary findings related to its investigation into the case of James Sikes, the driver of a 2008 Prius who said his car ran away from him on a San Diego area freeway, an incident recorded in a 22-min. 911 call as well as by dramatic pictures...
...Mike Michels, Toyota's vice president of communications, said the vehicle was examined by Toyota's engineers, who downloaded data from the vehicle, inspected it carefully and drove it through a series of tests. "There are strong indications that the driver's account of the event is inconsistent with the findings of the preliminary analysis," Michels said. (See more about the Toyota recall hearings on Capitol Hill...
...injection of fuel, the firing of spark plugs, even the operation of the catalyst limiting the engine's pollution. The same software also controls electronic stability by modulating the vehicle's throttle to help keep the car under control on slippery surfaces without any kind of input from the driver. Motorists aren't even aware that the software adjusts the throttle 10 times per second...
...expected to turn what is now the equivalent of a country road into an eight-lane superhighway for Internet data traffic, including 3-D video, university lectures and feature films such as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and The Twilight Saga: New Moon. "Video is the big driver behind all this," says analyst Akshay Sharma of technology-research company Gartner Inc., noting that voice and texting will soon be overtaken by richer multimedia content and applications. (See TIME's tech buyer's guide...
...quality and reliability, creating what many residents of Tehran liken to a war zone. Some older residents even compare the night and the anxiety it brings to the eight-year-long war with Iraq when Saddam Hussein's air force intermittently and indiscriminately bombed Tehran. Says a Tehran taxi driver in his 60s: "People used to enjoy themselves on this day. This is supposed to be a family tradition, but it's not safe for women and children out here. This is a very dangerous night." (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...