By TOM KRISHER
Consumers looking for a used vehicle aren’t shying away from GM models — even though more than 20 million GM cars and trucks have been recalled this year.
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sneezing causes fatal car crash
By Justin Moyer
On Sunday, a 79-year-old woman in Australia died after rolling her Hyundai Elantra, and her sister says a sneeze was to blame.
Dutch plan for self-driving trucks
A plan to allow self-driving trucks to deliver goods in the Netherlands could accelerate the introduction of driverless cars onto public roads.
Pancontinental says first oil discovered offshore Kenya
Australia-based Pancontinental Oil and Gas NL says it has verified that its recently completed Sunbird-1 well off the southern Kenyan coast has intersected an oil column—the first such discovered off the East African coast.
Europe’s automakers face new CO2 emissions headache
European automakers, already battered by the region’s economic downturn, face a fresh financial headache if the European Union implements, as planned, a new way of testing CO2 emissions from cars starting in 2017.
The EU wants to replace the New European Drive Cycle (NEDC) test, which measures CO2 emissions and fuel economy of new vehicles, by a more accurate United Nations-sponsored test cycle called the World Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP).
