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Owning a Car Gets Expensive Due to High Insurance Costs
Nowadays, having car is a necessity. However, recent reports show that buying a unit is more expensive than it seems particularly due to insurance costs. Insurance costs vary from state to state.
By Dabbie Davis
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Self Driving Car Safety Concerns Arise Like Fears of Hacking, Driver Data Protection
As popular as they seem, autonomous vehicles are not getting any special acknowledgement from the government. Officials are making their move following recent accidents involving self-driving cars.
By Dabbie Davis
Takata, auto execs face Senate over deadly air bag scandal
Executives from Japan's Takata Corp (7312.T) and two automakers faced tough scrutiny from U.S. senators on Thursday over the risk of millions of potentially defective air bags that can rupture upon deployment, shooting metal shards into cars.
By ERIC BEECH AND BEN KLAYMAN
Volkswagen China growth slows to 10 percent due to capacity limits
Volkswagen AG's (VOWG_p.DE) growth in China is expected to slow to around 10 percent this year from 16 percent in 2013 due to a conservative strategy that has limited its production capacity, the head of its Chinese operations said on Tuesday.
By SAMUEL SHEN AND MATTHEW MILLER
As China's luxury car wave ebbs, foreign firms seek domestic foothold
Daimler AG (DAIGn.DE) will give its new luxury baby, the Mercedes-Maybach limousine, a glitzy world debut at this week's Guangzhou autoshow, even as analysts warn the end is nigh for China's 10-year high-end car sales boom.
By Samuel Shen and Kazunori Takada
What is a recall? Carmakers confuse U.S. drivers in deadly air bag saga
In recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of U.S. Toyota drivers have received a stern warning by first-class mail: Immediately drive to your dealer to replace a flawed air bag, and in the meantime don't let anyone sit on the passenger side.
By BARBARA LISTON, JULIA EDWARDS AND PATRICK RUCKER
Takata shares open down 1 percent after news of criminal probe
Shares of Takata Corp opened down 1 percent on Friday after the Japanese auto parts maker said it was the subject of a U.S. criminal investigation over defective air bags that have been linked to five deaths.
By Chang-Ran Kim; Editing by Chris Gallagher
Takata refutes report of secret airbag tests: NYT
Auto parts maker Takata Corp (7312.T) offered a "substantive rebuttal" to accusations by two former employees that the company carried out tests on airbags in 2004 in Michigan and found signs of defects but did not report the results to federal regulators, the New York Times reported.
By Supriya Kurane in Bangalore; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier
