News Topic - Toyota

Hybrid Sales and Prices Climb in Lockstep with Gas Prices
Toyota slashes Prius incentives, jacks up price as demand jumps.
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North Carolina Education Lottery 200 starting lineup
ActiveReports Document @page{size: 8.5in 11in;margin-top:0.1in;margin-left:0.3in;margin-right:0.3in;margin-bottom:0.1in;} StartingLineUpbyRow Lowe'sMotorSpeedwayatCharlotte ProvidedbyNASCARStatistics-Fri,May16,2008@04:55PMEastern 124.845 Speed Time 01:36:36 05/19/06 Date Driver KyleBusch TrackRaceRecord: NorthCarolinaEducationLottery200 1 51 KyleBusch MiccosukeeResorts/NOSEnergyDrink 30.160 179.045 Row1: 2 33 RonHornaday CampingWorldChevrolet 30.525 176.904 3 2 JackSprague AmericanCommercialLinesChevrolet 30.560 176.702 Row2: 4 5 MikeSkinner ToyotaTundra/BannerSalesEventToyota 30.717 175.798 5 99 ErikDarnell NorthernTool+EquipmentFord 30.808 175.279 Row3: 6 6 ColinBraun# Con-wayFreightFord 30.811 175.262 7 8 ChadMcCumbee MalcolmsonConstructionChevrolet 30.907 174.718 Row4: 8 46 LandonCassill GoDaddy.comChevrolet 30.942 174.520 9 7 AndyLally# TRGMotorsports/AdobeRoadWinery 30.947 174.492 Row5: 10 13 ShelbyHoward ThorSportRacingChevrolet 30.998 174.205 11 15 MarcMitchell# HypreneErgonToyota 31.010 174.137 Row6: 12 09 TravisKvapil Zaxby'sFord 31.036 173.991 13 22 ScottSpeed# RedBullToyota 31.055 173.885 Row7: 14 23 JohnnyBenson ExideBatteriesToyota 31.090 173.689 15 14 RickCrawford PowerStrokeDieselbyInt'lFord 31.124 173.500 Row8: 16 17 TimothyPeters HayesIron&Metal/TahoeSmokelessDodge 31.151 173.349 17 4 StacyCompton CrownDodgeofFayettevilleDodge 31.171 173.238 Row9: 18 88 MattCrafton Menards/McGuire-NicholasWorkwear 31.195 173.105 19 11 DavidStarr PitCorporateTraining/Pit-Now.comToyota 31.287 172.596 Row10: 20 40 ChadChaffin CurtisKeyPlumbing/MaysMeatsChevrolet 31.312 172.458 21 30 ToddBodine LumberLiquidatorsToyota 31.314 172.447 Row11: 22 52 KenSchrader FederatedAutoPartsToyota 31.322 172.403 23 59 TedMusgrave TeamASE/HarrisTruckingToyota 31.437 171.772 Row12: 24 91 J.C.Stout Hart'sInsuranceAgencyChevrolet 31.444 171.734 25 60 TerryCook Wyler.comToyota 31.530 171.265 Row13: 26 07 JohnMickel DudmanGrp/ContacSvc/RSCappChevrolet 31.550 171.157 27 21 JonWood AirForceFord 31.575 171.021 Row14: 28 18 DennisSetzer TahoeSmokelessDodge 31.596 170.908 29 10 BrendanGaughan InternationalMAXXFORCEDieselFord 31.611 170.827 Row15: 30 20 ScottLagasse,Jr NicholsonGroupRealEstateFord 31.658 170.573 31 74 DerrikeCope Dodge 31.683 170.438 Row16: 32 9 JustinMarks# crocsToyota 31.697 170.363 33 08 JasonWhite GunBroker.comDodge 31.766 169.993 Row17: 34 71 DonnyLia# Nationrides.comChevrolet 31.805 169.785 OwnerPoints 35 16 BrianScott# AlbertsonsChevrolet Row18: 36 54 BrianSockwell SculleyBoatbuildersChevrolet 32.226 167.567 DidNotQualify: #73NickTucker;#28WayneEdwards. StartingLineup DNQs Manufacturer StartingLineup DNQs Manufacturer Chevrolet 13 1 Dodge 5 1 Ford 7 0 Toyota 11 0 Time Speed Team Driver Trk Pos
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Dead pedestrian identified as homeless man
Authorities today confirmed that Clarence Patterson was the pedestrian who was struck and killed Thursday night as he crossed Grand Bay-Wilmer Road in front of the TA Travel Center truck stop in west Mobile County. Bob Henley, 66, who said he conducts religious services on Sundays at the Travel Center, said Patterson is from Florida. The homeless man, believed to be in his mid-60s, was hit by a Toyota 4-Runner sport utility vehicle, according to an Alabama State Trooper at the scene. The accident happened about 9:30 p.m., according to witnesses and a Mobile County sheriff's deputy on the scene. The truck stop is at Exit 4 of Interstate 10, about four miles from the Alabama-Mississippi state line.
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Toyota sells one millionth Prius
Toyota's Prius started out a decade ago as a risky experiment in green technology. Today, it's the world's first mass-produced gas-electric hybrid vehicle to hit the one million mark in sales.
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Trulli top as rain hits Ricard
Toyota's Jarno Trulli was quickest as rain fell on the final day of F1's three-day group test at the Paul Ricard circuit in France.
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State Police look for victim's SUV in homicide
WATERTOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich (WOOD) - Michigan State Police in Clinton County are investigating a homicide.Police aren't saying how the victim died but they are looking for that person's 2005 Toyota Highlander.It's
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State police investigating Clinton Co. homicide
WATERTOWN TWP -- The Michigan State Police Lansing Post is investigating a homicide that occurred on Thursday in Watertown Township.Details about the incident have yet to be released, and the cause of death is not known at this time.According to investigators, police are searching for the victim's vehicle, a 2005 Toyota Highlander, dark blue in color, with a luggage rack on top, a trailer hitch and a smoke colored bug guard on the front bumper. The vehicle has a Michigan license plate number with the number BBC0671. Anyone in the area of the 7000 block of West Howe Road on Thursday is asked to contact the state police at 322-1909.Check LSJ.com for updates.Contact Ryan Loew at 377-1206 or rloew@lsj.com.
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Vickers' team wins Pit Crew Challenge
Mike Metcalf just missed out on the start of Appalachian State's run of three straight national championships in football.He was just the kind of hungry athlete Red Bull Racing wanted.Metcalf, a former fullback for the Mountaineers, was the catch-can man for driver Brian Vickers' athletic team that won Thursday's Sprint Pit Crew Challenge by edging Denny Hamlin's team in an all-Toyota final round.
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Pedestrian struck and killed
A pedestrian was struck and killed tonight as he crossed Grand Bay-Wilmer Road in front of the TA Travel Center truck stop in west Mobile County, authorities said.The man, estimated to be in his early- to mid-60s, was hit by a Toyota 4-Runner sports utility vehicle, according to an Alabama State Trooper at the scene.The accident happened about 9:30 p.m., according to witnesses and a Mobile County sheriff's deputy on the scene. The truck stop is located at Exit 4 of Interstate 10, about four miles from the Alabama-Mississippi state line.
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Happy Birthday, Lasers: Wired.com's Best Laser Stories
: Lasers are like your favorite uncle who can do no wrong. You know, the one who's always hip to the latest technology, does amazing magic tricks at all the family dinners, always photographs well, and has more than once saved baby Med-Tech from a burning house of boring. All the other technologies wish they were he, and Wired.com readers openly admit he's their favorite. So in celebration of one of our greatest news topics here at Wired.com, we've selected a compilation of the best recent laser appearances on our site. Thanks for the memories, Big L. (Have your own favorite laser news item? Let us know in the comments.)Left: Texans Build World's Most Powerful LaserScientists have switched on the world's most powerful laser, which for one-trillionth of a second is 2,000 times more powerful than all the power plants in the United States. The laser's output tops a petawatt, which is a quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) watts of power.(More in next slide)Photo: Courtesy Mikael Martinez and Texas Petawatt Project, led by Todd Ditmire: (Continued from previous slide)The power of a laser, its output in watts, is determined by the energy of the laser pulse, measured in joules, divided by its duration, measured in seconds (tiny fractions of a second in this case). So, to get high power, you can either turn up the energy or cram the same amount of energy into a shorter duration pulse -- or do both. The problem is that turning up the energy makes it more difficult to get short pulses.The solution to this problem requires an almost Rube Goldberg setup inside a 1,500-square-foot clean room. The most powerful laser in the world starts, poetically enough, with a "seed laser" that puts out a wimpy nanojoule of energy for a couple of hundred femtoseconds (that's 10-15 seconds). It must be run through a series of amplifiers, compressors and stretchers before it can recreate the conditions inside the sun for a trillionth of a second.Photo: Courtesy Mikael Martinez and Texas Petawatt Project, led by Todd Ditmire: Beamz Music System Lets You Compose a Symphony With the Power of Freaking LasersIf Dr. Evil of Austin Powers fame were more musically minded, he may have demanded something like the beamz -- a musical instrument with "fricking lasers" attached to it. This large USB peripheral includes six laser beams that, when broken, activate elements of 30 songs stored on your computer.: Laser-Etched QR Codes: Digital Graffiti For GadgetsForget stickers. Real geeks show their commitment with something more permanent: laser engraving. And Jason Fields takes your etching and raises you one QR code. Sure, it's too big for most little QR readers to handle, and the gray on gray isn't exactly contrasty, but Jason has squeezed in his "e-mail signature file, postal address, with links to my blog and twitter pages as well.": The Geekiest Van Conversion EverThis is the Tele Atlas map machine, a Toyota van tricked out with tens of thousands of dollars worth of cameras, laser range detectors and global-positioning hardware. The laser sensors on the back (the devices labeled SICK) are used to determine the height of overpasses and buildings to help delivery vehicles find the route with the most overhead clearance.Photo: Michael Calore/Wired.com: The Ultrashort Pulse Laser in ActionRaydiance, a startup company in Petaluma, California, has developed a laser it says can cleanly cut just about any material you can think of -- from human skin to glass -- without throwing off heat or damaging the surface.This glass slide is seconds away from being ablated by the Raydiance USP laser.Photo: Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com: Laser Death StarA new patent granted to Lockheed Martin seeks to combine multiple lasers into a single, higher-power beam, which would, in theory, help achieve the power output needed for laser weapons. The patent outlines a method to "combine multiple laser beams into a single coherent beam without requiring insertion of optical elements into the laser beam.": This Laser Trick's a Quantum LeapPh.D. student Elliot Fraval (left) and Dr. Jevon Longdel perform scientific measurements on light in the lab at Laser Physics Centre at Australian National University.Photo: Tim Wetherell: Navy Pushing Laser 'Holy Grail' to Weapons GradeFor decades, scientists have been slowly working on a laser that never runs out of shots -- and can be "tuned" to blast through the air, at just the right wavelength. For most of that time, all they could get was a laser at light-bulb strength. But researchers at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility finally managed in 2004 to assemble a "Free Electron Laser," or FEL, that could generate 10,000 watts of power.Now the Navy has started an effort to design and build a new FEL, 10 times as strong. That would bring the laser up to 100 kilowatts -- what's considered the minimum threshold for weapons grade. But it would also be just a steppingstone on the way to an energy weapon as powerful as any produced. If ray gun researchers can get the thing to work, that is.: Stupid Laser Tricks: Make Your Own Piece of Jesus-Miracle ToastThey can do everything from nuclear fusion to vaginal rejuvenation, so you know it's a mathematical certainty that lasers = awesome. Plus, your right to tinker with dirt-cheap lasers in your basement is all but guaranteed in the Constitution! With that in mind, here are a few of our favorite DIY laser hacks. (Disclaimer: If you are foolhardy enough to try any of these and end up maiming yourself or getting sucked into the Tron game grid, something else was probably going to remove you from the gene pool soon anyway.)Photo: Gene Lee: Laser-Guided Saw: Cool Tool or Novelty Toy?It might not cut as effectively as a lightsaber, or even a real laser cutter, but at least your lines will be (theoretically) straight.At $20, though, it's probably too cheap to actually do its job. If you've ever used a cheap saw you know that the blade will flex and buck, leaving your supposedly neat cut looking about as straight as Earring Magic Ken. And the laser doesn't even come with a battery. We say: Avoid. You'll get a better result with an old popsicle stick.: DIY Laser Lightshow for $80: Useless but AwesomeWhat's cooler than a green laser? A green laser that paints semirandom moving spirograph patterns on your wall. Toronto-based hardware hacker Artur Petrovskyy shows you how to make one of your own from about $80 in parts in a new how-to on Instructables.com: Laser show for poor man.Image: Instructables.com
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