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		<title>Michelin Rapped for &#8220;Bad Faith Conduct&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge in Atlanta has ordered to Michelin North American to pay attorneys’ fees and established that a Uniroyal Laredo Tire was “defective and unreasonably dangerous” as a sanction for nearly two years of discovery abuse. “In sum, Michelin’s bad faith conduct caused serious prejudice to the integrity of the legal process and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Toyota Has a Whisker Across its Bumper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you’ve shelled out big bucks for a message, the dissenters have to be squashed – and fast. Yesterday, Toyota public relations rapid response team tried to bring the Toyota Unintended Acceleration (UA) problem back into its multi-million-dollar corral at the There’s Nothing to See Here, Folks Ranch. Mike Michels, Vice President for External Communications [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2012/01/26/why-toyota-has-a-whisker-across-its-bumper/</link>
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		<title>NHTSA: No Evidence Prius Unintended Acceleration Linked to Known Causes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has acknowledged what it has emphatically denied so far: Not all instances of Toyota Unintended Acceleration are linked to sticky pedals, floor mats or driver error. The UAs in a 2003 Prius witnessed by ODI engineers last May were not linked to “known causes.” True, the agency response (see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2012/01/25/nhtsa-no-evidence-prius-unintended-acceleration-linked-to-known-causes/</link>
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		<title>Government Officials Video Electronic Unintended Acceleration in Toyota:  NHTSA Hides Information, SRS Sues Agency for Records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In mid-May, two engineers from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation witnessed a 2003 Prius, owned by a high-ranking government official, accelerate on its own several times while on a test drive with the owner, without interference from the floor mat, without a stuck accelerator pedal or the driver’s foot on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2012/01/24/govt-officials-video/</link>
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		<title>Nine Recalls, Ten Investigations and Toyota Unintended Acceleration Continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of our ongoing investigation into Unintended Acceleration in Toyota vehicles, Safety Research &#38; Strategies has identified 330 UA complaints reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for incidents that occurred in 2011. These complaints range from consumers who experienced multiple instances of UA to events that resulted in a crash. Below, we’ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2012/01/23/nine-recalls-ten-investigations-and-toyota-unintended-acceleration-continues/</link>
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		<title>NAS Report on Vehicle Electronics and UA: More Weak Tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Academies of Science released today its long-awaited review of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Toyota Unintended Acceleration investigations, its regulatory policies and the agency’s next steps in dealing with electronic defects. The 16-member panel of volunteers, from a multitude of related disciplines, met 15 times over about 18 months, and were, at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2012/01/18/nas-report-on-vehicle-electronics-and-ua-more-weak-tea/</link>
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		<title>Keep Your Head in a Tornado</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over more than three days in late April, the South, the Midwest and the Northeast saw the largest outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded in the U.S. – 359 tornadoes cut a swath of destruction, killing 362 people and causing billions of dollars in damage. Dubbed the “Super Outbreak of 2011,” the string of violent storms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2012/01/13/keep-your-head-in-a-tornado/</link>
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		<title>When Occupant Detection Sensors Don&#8217;t Make Sense?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 17, 2011, Hyundai settled, for an undisclosed sum, in a crash that wouldn’t and shouldn’t have caused a fatality but for a defective occupant seat sensor – a problem that may be more common – across many manufacturers – and more potentially deadly than realized. On January 3, 2010, Donna Lynn Hopkins was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2012/01/10/when-occupant-detection-sensors-dont-make-sense/</link>
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		<title>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to My Car…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has Paula Poundstone been reading our memos to NHTSA about the serious safety problems created by keyless ignition systems? This weekend, the comedienne broke into a spontaneous and funny rant about them during her weekly gig with the NPR news quiz show “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” “You know what my car has that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2011/12/20/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-my-car%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Safety Research &amp; Strategies Takes DOT and NHTSA Transparency Battle to Court;  Sues for Toyota Investigation Documents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. – Safety Research &#38; Strategies, a Massachusetts safety research firm that advocates for consumers on safety matters, sued the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today over the release of Toyota Unintended Acceleration investigation documents. The civil action, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Civil Action No. 11-2165), alleges that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2011/12/07/safety-research-sues-for-toyota-investigation-documents/</link>
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