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Vehicle Schematics for First Responders via Electronic QR Codes
How a QR Code Could Save Your Life
BY DAMON LAVRINC
Wired.com
05.28.133:44 PM
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Consumer Advocacy Group Calls for a Recall of 5 Million Jeep Grand Cherokees – 5/23/13
The Center for Auto Safety is asking top officials at the Chrysler Group and its parent company, Fiat, to recall about five million vehicles. The nonprofit consumer advocacy group said, “Children are dying in Jeeps in rear-impact fires.”
In a letter to John Elkann on Wednesday, Fiat’s chairman, the center cited the deaths of three children since 2006 in fires that occurred when the Jeeps in which they were riding were struck from the rear.
Guide Revisions Provoke Uproar – 4/5/13
Proposed changes to the used-car Buyers Guide required by the Federal Trade Commission have been criticized by consumer groups and the attorneys general of 22 states, who say the revisions would be a setback in consumer protection.
The critics are urging the F.T.C. not to adopt the changes — the first since 1995 — which they say could result in consumers’ being misled about their legal rights or not learning the full history of a car damaged in a flood or a crash.
Police, Patriot Guard help crash victims in Indiana – 1/24/12
VALPARAISO, Ind.
Air Bag Recall Spreads to BMW; G.M. Recalls Some eAssist Models
The widespread air bag recall affecting about 3.3 million Japanese vehicles last month has apparently spread to BMW as well. BMW says it will recall about 42,000 of its 2002-3 3 Series models because a passenger side air bag defect could send shards of metal into the passenger compartment.
Crusade to corral fire-prone Jeeps drags on – 5/8/13
By James R. Hood
ConsumerAffairs.com
Limo alterations can create weaknesses – 5/7/13
(05-07) 08:11 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Investigators are likely to find that a fuel leak, an electrical short or the ignition of something flammable in the cabin or trunk caused a limousine blaze that killed five women on the San Mateo Bridge, experts on vehicle fires said Monday.
Authorities looking into Saturday’s fire revealed little Monday, but said the 1999 Lincoln Town Car with nine women aboard had not been in a crash before flames spread from its rear. They said road debris did not appear to be a factor.