Toyota say they are expecting their global auto sales in 2009 to top the targeted 6.5m units thanks to national incentive schemes boosting markets.
VW will pay €3.9bn to take a bigger than planned 49.9% stake in Porsche as a first step to a full merger with Porsche by 2011.
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Russia’s AvtoVAZ, the maker of Lada cars, is on the brink of bankruptcy, Sergei Stepashin, the head of State Audit Chamber told Reuters on Wednesday.
Man, the world’s third-largest heavy truck manufacturer, has received clearance from Chinese authorities to form a partnership with Sinotruk, China’s market leader for such vehicles.
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– Extremely large numbers of pedestrians are killed in collisions with vehicles because of darkness.(2,300 fatalities in USA, 150,000 worldwide)
– The risk of having a road accident at night is 3-7 times higher than in the daytime
– Night-Time Accidents are more severe in terms of critical injuries
– In Germany the number of accidents at night declined more strongly in the last decade compared to daytime
Improved Night-time Road Safety depends on:
– Light source development
– Headlamp development
– Vehicle system development
International prizes for innovation in driver assistance systems are organised by EQUIP AUTO, with the help of European technical journal and the international press.
Three physicists from China, the US and Canada have picked up this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics. The prize has been shared between Charles Kao from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Willard Boyle and George Smith,
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