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Heavy Vehicles will be banned on highways – Chinese New Year 2018 (Road Ban)
February 3, 2018@12:38 pm / By 2msia

This is to inform that heavy vehicles will be banned form ALL roads for 4 days during the Chinese New Year (CNY) festival in 2018. The ban will take effect on February 14-15 and February 24-25, 2018. The road ban is applicable to all roads in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. The ban is part

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Ten car companies sued over risk of carbon monoxide poisoning due to keyless ignition systems
August 28, 2015@1:33 pm / By bluefire6

BMW, MINI, Mercedes-Benz, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Acura, Hyundai, Kia, Nissan, Infiniti, Toyota, Lexus, Volkswagen and Bentley are all being sued by consumers in the US who claim that the 10 carmakers concealed the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning in more than five million vehicles equipped with keyless ignition systems. The risks, the

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Mum caught breastfeeding baby while driving tells cop ‘he screams out of control when he’s hungry’
August 27, 2015@10:33 pm / By bluefire6

A mum caught breastfeeding a baby while driving on a busy road told a police officer she did it to stop her child’s “out of control” screaming. The woman was stopped by a traffic officer following reports of a small child in the driver’s seat of a car on a highway just outside Seattle in

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All it takes is RM120 to unlock cars with Rolljam
August 10, 2015@5:38 pm / By bluefire6

As reported on Tech Insider, a hacker named Samy Kamkar recently made a US$30 (RM120) device called Rolljam which can unlock cars by exploiting a weakness in keyless entry. According to the publication, Kamkar also built a device recently which is able to hack into GM’s OnStar system wirelessly (OnStar/GM has reportedly resolved the issue).

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Why Carbon-Ceramic Brake Disks For High Performance Cars?
July 30, 2015@11:29 pm / By Msian

High performance car typically have the carbon ceramic composite brake disc rather than regular cast iron brake disks. That kind of high powerful engine and performance car required light weight material and body as well as the dynamic body shape. If the typical cast iron brake disks fit on the high performance wheel it will wear out

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Texting and selfies causing more fatal auto accidents
July 15, 2015@12:00 pm / By bluefire6

The number of fatal accidents involving drivers preoccupied with using their mobile phones whilst driving is on the rise, according to research carried out by the Road Transport Department (JPJ). Kedah JPJ director Nik Ahmad Syazwan Nik Azman said that research showed that a large number of fatal accidents cases were due to texting while

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Over-inflated tires are a bad idea
July 15, 2015@10:44 am / By bluefire6

There has been much bunk posted on the Internet about how easy it is to save fuel by over-inflating the tires on a vehicle. The people never mention the downside: driver safety. I have canvassed all the major tire companies and not one was willing to recommend deviating from what the vehicle manufacturer’s placard recommends.

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What Is Air Brake System?
June 28, 2015@8:52 am / By Msian

Air brake is a compressed air brake system. It mostly apply on heavy load vehicle such as heavy load truck, buses and trailer as well as railway train for more safety braking system. Air brake system was develop adn invented by George Westinghouse who was an American entrepreneur and engineer. How Was The Air Brake Work? It Using the

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10 things you need to do after a car accident
June 19, 2015@12:03 pm / By bluefire6

Over million car accidents occur each year in the world. Fortunately, most of them involve only property damage – damage to the vehicle as opposed to the occupants. But one in three accidents involve personal injury to the driver or passengers and out of that number, two out of every ten accidents lead to fatal

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Common injuries for car accidents
June 19, 2015@11:42 am / By bluefire6

Car accidents can cause many different injuries, to virtually any part of your body, depending on the circumstances of the crash and the severity of the impact. Brain and Head Injuries One of the most common and debilitating injuries suffered by drivers and passengers is an acquired brain injury caused by the head being hit

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