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USDOT launches online tracking tool for data on automated driving systems on-road testing

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Currently, the tool has data on on-road testing activities in 17 cities across the country, including Austin, Columbus (Ohio), Dallas, Denver, Jacksonville, Orlando, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Ten companies and nine States have already signed on as participants in the voluntary web pilot.

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Junkyard Find: 2004 Mitsubishi Diamante LS

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Today's Junkyard Find is one of the very last Diamantes sold here, now residing in a Denver car graveyard. There was a time when Mitsubishi dealers in North America offered just about every kind of car and light truck for sale. When the second-generation Diamante appeared here as a 1997 model, all production took place in Australia.

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EPA proposes air pollution standards for oil and gas drilling operations; focus on capture of escaping natural gas

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This significant reduction would largely be accomplished by capturing natural gas that currently escapes to the air and making that gas available for sale through technologies and processes already in use by several companies and required in some states. Details on the hearings will be announced soon.

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Ford begins production of 2012 Focus Electric at Michigan Assembly, C-MAX models on deck

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The 19 launch markets also include Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Ford will also be introducing the C-MAX Hybrid and the C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid—also to be built at Michigan Assembly— for sale in the second half of next year.

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Junkyard Find: 1959 Renault Dauphine

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I discovered a Mexican-market '06 Peugeot 407 in a Denver boneyard, earlier this year, and thought years would pass before the next time I'd hear the ghosts of André Citroën , Louis Renault , and Armand Peugeot singing La Marseillaise over a car graveyard. The Gordini is parked a couple of rows away, next to a Saab 95.