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Report: Senate committee passes overhaul of auto safety laws, includes hefty recall fines

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Filed under: Government/Legal , Recalls , Safety Congress is gearing up for a comprehensive overhaul of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , implementing some significant safety measures for automobiles along the way. The campaign, encouraged by safety advocates for over a year now, has gained significant ground as the Senate Commerce Committee endorsed a series of measures which it will seek to incorporate into a highway reauthorization bill due for approval early in the new year. According to The Detroit News , measures approved by the committee include significantly stiffer fines for automakers delaying necessary recalls. Currently the maximum fine that can be imposed in such instances is $17.35 million, but the new regulations would up that to a whopping $250 million

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Video: Red Bull and David Coulthard off-road Austin’s Circuit of the Americas, again

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Filed under: Motorsports , Etc. , Videos , Celebrities If you don’t think David Coulthard has the coolest job on the planet, that’s just because you haven’t seen this video yet. As you may recall , the Formula One driver and Red Bull recently headed down to Austin to display their excitement over the sport’s return to American soil.

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Report: Red Bull bringing F1 to Austin a bit early [w/video]

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Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Racing If you live in downtown Austin, Texas, don’t plan on sleeping in next Saturday morning. First of all, you won’t want to miss this, and secondly, even if you did, something tells us the wail of an F1 car running past the capitol building will keep you from snoozing anyway. Though completion of the new Circuit of the Americas is still a good year away, Formula One is coming to Austin this weekend when Red Bull brings one of its famous road show events to the state capital city. The event is reportedly slated to feature veteran driver and team ambassador David Coulthard driving one of the team’s demo cars up Congress Avenue between 15th Street and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Report: Obama now among foreign motorists who owe £50M in unpaid London congestion charges

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Filed under: Government/Legal According to The Daily Mail , the city of London has slapped President Barack Obama with a

Report: Mulally urges Capitol Hill to adopt national fuel standard

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Filed under: Government/Legal , Ford Will there be one fuel standard to rule them all? Ford CEO Alan Mulally certainly hopes so, and he’s letting Washington know. As manufacturers spend time and money pushing to reach established Corporate Average Fuel Economy goals, some states are looking to set their own rules. That could prove to be a tricky – and hugely expensive – proposition for the automakers

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Report: WSJ looks at who the auto bailouts really left behind

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Filed under: Government/Legal , Recalls , Safety , Chrysler , GM According to The Wall Street Journal , Chrysler’s post-bailout restructuring allowed it to effectively erase any responsibility for car accident victims. Two years after the $12.5-billion auto industry bailouts , families like the one Vicki Denton left behind are stuck between a rock and a hard place. The WSJ reports that Ms. Denton was killed in a head-on collision in which the airbag in her 1998 Dodge Caravan failed to deploy.

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