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by John Jones system that will come to your rescue in an emergency. NISSAN has a vehicle to suit First the forward collision alert everybody’s needs close to home and warning alerts you when a vehicle about as far away as you can get in is too close. If you do not respond its X-Trail — a big, family-friendly, the intelligent emergency braking comfortable and economical unit system will come to your rescue as good for any situation. the brakes activate themselves. With seven seats, it is a people One feature that seems to have mover that is easily able to take the been made for Gisborne drivers is family and a couple of extras to any the rear cross-traffic alert system. destination. This means that when you are With the back seats down it backing out of the tight parking becomes a five-seat SUV perfectly spaces we have here, you are covered geared to the great majority of the for an approaching vehicle you may driving you will be doing. not be able to see above the vehicles X-Trails are available in 2WD parked parallel to you. and AWD and are powered by The STL is big on comfort with a mighty 2.5-litre petrol engine goodies like leather heated seats and putting out a whopping 126 kW of all the standards like cruise control, power. climate control, push-button start But thanks to its continuously and high quality auto. variable transmission it is able to But there is something extra for offer fuel economy of 8.1 litres per passengers in the X-Trail. 100km. The seating is theatre seating, In other words a big fella but not which means rear seat passengers a thirsty one. can see over the front seat ones The 2WD STL model featured which greatly improves the driving sits on 19-inch alloys with a design experience and also is known to help that really makes a statement. prevent car sickness. Technology is the friend of the There is an extra perk for those STL. in the back. The second row seats The all-round camera does exactly slide back and recline making for a what it says it will . . . lets you comfortable ride. have a 360-degree view around the Close to home and in town, or vehicle. out in the back country, the X-Trail Then there is the two-stage is your ticket for a great drive. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2020 3 US eases safety regulations on low-speed autonomous vehicles FOR the first time, the US Government’s human operator, if needed. highway safety agency has approved a The approval is the first sign that company’s request to deploy a self-driving NHTSA is moving from abstract vehicle that doesn’t meet federal safety statements and voluntary standards standards that apply to cars and trucks governing autonomous vehicles to actual driven by humans. regulation, said Bryant Walker Smith, a The National Highway Traffic Safety University of South Carolina law professor Administration granted temporary approval who studies vehicle automation. for Silicon Valley robotics company Nuro It’s a signal the agency, which has stated to run low-speed autonomous delivery publicly it doesn’t want to stand in the way vehicles designed so they can’t carry of the new technology, is likely to approve humans. more vehicles, he said. Nuro’s vehicles won’t be required to have “This is the first time the agency said ‘yes side and rear-view mirrors and other safety we approve this vehicle that does not meet provisions. Also not on the safety feature traditional driver-oriented standards’. list will be windshield wipers, steering “That’s a big step because it makes it Graveyard of vehicles below wheels or brake pedals. much more concrete, more real for the The vehicles were previously subject to agency and really for the public.” federal standards for low-speed vehicles Under the temporary approval, Nuro will SkyCity’s convention centre that travel under 25 miles per hour (just have to make real-time safety reports to the over 40kmh). Those didn’t need steering agency. AFTER nearly 130 days, around 180 getting closer to getting removed,” wheels or brake pedals and didn’t have to Nuro will also have to hold regular vehicles remain trapped beneath the fire- Stephens said, referring to the closed B4 have human back-up drivers. meetings with the agency and reach out to damaged NZ International Convention basement level beneath the $703m centre, Nuro’s battery-powered vehicles can be the community in areas where the vehicles Centre in Auckland, according to the head shut since the fire broke out on October monitored and controlled remotely by a will travel. of the business which owns the property. 22. The vehicle graveyard is yet to be Millions of litres of water flooded the disturbed after the disastrous inner city fire basement, submerging the vehicles up left the many vehicles trapped in a damp to their windows last year as firefighters and dark dungeon, although the water has fought the blaze above. been drained. Stephens said safety was a priority in “They’re write-offs, mouldy,” said removing the vehicles which might emerge Graeme Stephens, SkyCity Entertainment from their watery graves in the next few Group chief executive of the programme of weeks. works yet to begin to recover the vehicles. Asked about the condition of the He was discussing the company’s vehicles, he said: “It’s academic Owners December 31 half-year result and have been paid out.” explaining how his company soon expected Ward Demolition is expected to begin a detailed programme of works from head the huge job on the site between Nelson contractor Fletcher Construction. St, Hobson St, Wellesley St and Victoria “They’re still down there but they’re St. 30214-16 ENTERPRISE MOTOR GROUP 323 Gladstone Road • Ph 867 8368 • a/h Steven Shields • 027 483 9666 4 THE GISBORNE HERALD In the boot of a ’38 Ford Coupe

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Fax 06 868 1910 • [email protected] drivers enjoyed them. 30656-05 Ph 06 868 1938 • Mob 027 451 7003 Fax 06 868 1910 • [email protected] TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2020 5 Uninsured McLaren F1 wrecked LONG before Elon Musk was sending admitted that he “didn’t really know how electric cars around the Nurburgring, and to drive”, but that didn’t stop him from even before he was sending astronauts into planting the accelerator and attempting orbit, he was a software developer who was to change lanes. Thanks to the lack of doing pretty well for himself. traction control in the British-built beast. Well for himself is actually an The 6.1-litre V12 spun the rear wheels understatement, considering that at just 28 with ease, and the F1 was thrust head-first years old, he sold his first company ‘Zip2’ into an embankment before spinning “like to the now-extinct Compaq for around a discus” through the air. $500 million, of which Musk pocketed When it finally crashed back down to $34 million. earth, the windscreen, body, and suspension Like any other petrol head would do in system was destroyed. Thanks to the 1999, Elon took that profit straight to his ground-breaking carbon fibre monocoque, local McLaren dealership, and bought a the passenger compartment and BMW- Supercars come with challenges brand new McLaren F1. When new, these built power plant were unscathed. OWNING a car comes with hidden 935 racer (heaps), a Porsche Carrera GT ($2 road rockets retailed for about $1.2 million. “It was a miracle neither of us were quirks both good and bad, but unless you’re million), and a McLaren 650S ($200K). Again, like a good petrol head, Elon used hurt,” Thiel said back in 2017. “I wasn’t driving a supercar, you probably won’t While they may all sit well over the six- build #67 as his daily driver around San wearing a seatbelt, which is not advisable. spend more than a few hundred dollars on figure mark, maintaining these cars costs Francisco and the Bay Area, clocking up Elon’s first comment was, ‘Wow, Peter, that maintenance each year. under $15,000 per year each, which grants an impressive 17K kilometres within his was really intense.’ And then it was: ‘You Supercar owner and YouTube Manny them the “cheap” title. On the other side of first year of ownership. know, I had read all these stories about Khoshbin has managed to build quite a the garage is the “expensive” segment, which Unfortunately, good things don’t last people who made money and bought following on the internet from his incredible includes his uber-rare stuff. Khoshbin notes forever, and Musk soon learned what sports cars and crashed them. But I knew car collection, and showing both the good that his three Bugattis are the most expensive happens when 467kW at the rear wheels it would never happen to me, so I didn’t and bad aspects of it all. Previously, we’ve in terms of maintenance, with $102,000 goes wrong. get any insurance.’ And then we hitchhiked seen Khoshbin go into detail about the costs being spent each year. The Hermes edition While driving to a meeting about PayPal the rest of the way to the meeting.” On top around owning his incredibly rare Bugatti Pagani Huayra is in the same incredibly-rare with investor Peter Thiel in one of the of all this, Musk’s McLaren wasn’t insured. Veyron, but in this video, the mogul decides boat, and costs around $12,000 each service. passenger seats, Musk was asked to show This remains a mystery as it wasn’t like to cover off the costs of his whole, multi- This is quite cheap considering the $6.5 what the F1 could do, and uttered the he couldn’t afford the insurance, and was million dollar collection. While Khoshbin million or so that the car retailed for. famous last words of “watch this”. pretty dumb thing for an extremely smart is a true petrol head at heart, he explains Interestingly, Khoshbin’s McLaren Senna In an interview in 2012, Elon openly man to do. during the video that he sees every car in his and P1 are arguably the two coolest cars in collection as an investment, and working out his garage, only rack up around $3000 in which ones to buy and sell is a full-time job. maintenance costs each year, making them In terms of outright cost, the “cheap” part sound like a bargain among the others. of his garage starts with the $160K Tesla On top of this, the garage space, insurance Model X that avoids standard maintenance and security also factor into the bottom line, costs. This includes a few Mercedes-Benz making supercar collecting quite a serious SLR McLarens ($800K each), a Porsche gig. Concerns raised about Tesla Autopilot before fatal crash AN Apple engineer who died when his hearing on the crash, today. At that time, Tesla Model X hit a concrete barrier on a it will determine a cause and make safety RED HOT Silicon Valley freeway had complained before recommendations. his death that the SUV’s Autopilot system NTSB staff members have already would malfunction in the area where the recommended California transportation crash happened. officials move faster to repair highway safety The complaints were detailed in a trove barriers damaged by vehicles. of documents released last week by the A report from the agency says California SALE! US National Transportation Safety Board, officials failed to fix the barrier that was which is investigating the March, 2018 damaged in a crash 11 days before Huang Get $3000 of genuine and approved crash that killed engineer Walter Huang. was killed. 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The 31-year-old driver survived the Huang died at a hospital from his injuries. crash and was treated for relatively minor RRP $53,990 “Walter said the car would veer toward the injuries, the NTSB said. with no accessories barrier in the mornings when he went to Huang’s 2017 Tesla Model X was work,” the Huang family’s attorney wrote in travelling at 114 kmh when it crashed a response to NTSB questions. against the same attenuator, which the Now $39,990 +ORC Huang also described Autopilot’s NTSB determined had been damaged and with free accessories malfunctioning to his brother, the attorney repaired more frequently than any other left- *Applies to P63 inferno red utes only. wrote, in addition to talking with a friend exit in Caltrans’ District 4, which includes all who owns a Model X. Huang, a software of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7 Options available: engineer, discussed with the friend how a million people. patch to the Autopilot software affected its In the three years before the Tesla crash, performance and made the Model X veer, the device was struck at least five times, the lawyer’s response said. including one crash that resulted in fatalities. Sometime prior to the crash, Huang The NTSB also released documents from Custom Mats Weathershields Roll Top Lid Soft Tonneau DefenderBonnet Protector Hard Lid took his Tesla to a service centre to fix a another fatal Tesla crash, that happened on “navigation error,” the attorney’s response March 1, 2019 in Delray Beach, Florida. said. But Tesla could not duplicate the In that incident, driver Jeremy Banner problem and it was not repaired. The turned on the Autopilot function of his Huang family is suing Tesla and California’s Model 3 sedan 10 seconds before the crash, Department of Transportation for allegedly then took his hands off the steering wheel, failing to maintain the highway. NTSB documents said. Deck liner Seat Covers Sports Bar Polished TowSports Bar Bar Black Autopilot is a partially automated system The car then drove underneath a tractor- Snorkel designed to keep a vehicle in its lane and trailer that was crossing in front of it, keep a safe distance from vehicles in front sheering off the car’s roof and killing Banner. Watts Motors Ltd of it. It also can change lanes with driver It was eerily similar to another Florida 132 Childers Road, Gisborne approval. Tesla says Autopilot is intended crash in 2016 in which a Tesla on Autopilot Phone 867 4749 - Brian 021 222 0292 or Lance 021 222 4199 for driver assistance and that drivers must be went beneath a semi trailer. The NTSB said www.wattsmotors.co.nz 10yea r / 160,000km Powertrain Warranty (whichev er come ready to intervene at all times. in a preliminary report that it still hasn’t rst) (non transferable). 5 yea r / 130,000km NewVe hicle Warranty (whichev ercomes rst) (non transferable). The full NTSB board is going to hold a determined the cause of the crash. — AP 30815-05 6 THE GISBORNE HERALD Evans wins WRC Rally in style WELSHMAN Elfyn Evans and then lost another on the leaderboard saw Ogier move has taken only two rallies to final day. However full points ahead of Rovanpera by a mere deliver a victory for the Toyota were awarded. 0.5secs to hold third place. Gazoo World Rally Team. With the rally reduced to a Two runs through the 21km Evans won a weather- sprint distance, Evans grabbed Likenas stage had been planned shortened WRC Rally Sweden the lead on opening stage and for Sunday but to preserve the last weekend, leading from start- completed the first day loop road conditions it was only run to-finish in his Toyota Yaris of four stages with an 8.5secs once as the bonus points Power WRC and powering to a share advantage over Estonia’s world Stage. Evans took a cautious of the championship lead in the champion Ott Tanak (Hyundai) approach as rain fell on the process. It was Evans’ second while Finnish teenager Kalle patchy ice and he was only sixth WRC victory and the Welsh Rovanpera moved into third fastest while Rovanpera stormed driver delivered it in convincing place ahead of his Toyota team- to the fastest time ahead of style. mate Sebastien Ogier (France). Neuville. With unseasonal warm Saturday repeated the same Evans won by 12.7secs from weather limiting the amount of four stages and Evans was fastest Tanak while Rovanpera was roads suitable for the studded on three of them to double his 20.2secs behind the rally winner winter tyres, the rally itinerary lead over Tanak to 17.2secs. The and 3.4secs ahead of fourth was reduced to only 10 stages only significant change on the placed Ogier. NZ GP victory seals TRS crown AFTER a disciplined five-week campaign, Brazil’s a really good car in qualifying this morning, but it was Igor Fraga has snatched the 2020 Castrol Toyota my mistake that I didn’t put it on pole — that was down Racing Series (TRS) title from Kiwi Liam Lawson after to me. Well done to Igor, he’s driven well all season. FIA winning the 65th New Zealand Grand Prix at Manfeild and F3 is a really cool opportunity for me ahead for this Circuit Chris Amon. year and I’m excited about that, but this one hurts.” Heading into the race, Fraga was just two points The finale was set up perfectly by a fascinating race behind Lawson in the standings. And with the pairing two earlier in the day. The win went to series rookie starting the series finale from pole (Fraga) and third Tijmen van der Helm, who headed Colapinto, Petr (Lawson), a winner-takes-all scenario was on the cards. Ptacek, Fraga and Lawson. Lawson had held the The New Zealander made a range of sharp moves in advantage after the race the day before, but only by four the opening laps to get to second, but he was unable to points, and the race two result had cut that down to just hang with Fraga’s pace in the race — eventually fading two points. back to third behind 2020 Rookie of the Year Franco The opening laps of the Grand Prix were underlined Colapinto. by some scintillating driving from Lawson. With his “I’m speechless. After finishing the race I just can’t fellow row-two rival Colapinto making a poor start, believe it,” said an emotional Fraga. “I would like to Lawson was able to challenge the leading pair off the thank everyone who has supported me, obviously my start — filing behind Collet in third. parents. It’s been a long way to get here. I have had the He then spent the next few laps threatening Collet support of many people. I’m just so thankful to all of everywhere before spending almost half a lap side-by- them.” side with the Brazilian before finally getting by at turn “I tried everything,” said a dejected Lawson. “We had one. Kiwi impresses racing world at first IndyCar test KIWI Scott McLaughlin has defied The test follows confirmation earlier in expectation at his first major NTT IndyCar the year that McLaughlin would make his Series test, ending the day a stellar third IndyCar debut at the Indianapolis Grand behind Will Power and Alexander Rossi. Prix in May. The event was said to be a one Power clocked a 1:46.7603 at the Circuit off, although teammate Will Power seemed of the Americas track, with McLaughlin to hint otherwise. five tenths behind but heading a field of 27 “I was impressed. For a guy that hasn’t cars — comprising of the category’s elite. spent a stack of time in open-wheel cars, Josef Newgarden, Colton Herta, Simon it was brilliant,” Power told Wide World Pagenaud, and Oliver Askew filled the of Sports. “Clearly Scott is very good. You top seven, with fellow Kiwi Scott Dixon see that in the Supercars. I’ve always said if winding up eighth ahead of Alex Palau and you’re a really good driver, you can adapt to Pato O’Ward. different categories. He’s picked this up real “It’s fast, it’s got so much grip,” quick. McLaughlin said. “It’s hard on your neck “I reckon the transition from Supercars and body. I’ve been training really hard to to IndyCar is just perfect for him. An get ready for it. I’m really happy with the IndyCar is a purpose-built racecar where car so far. I felt really comfortable and my everything is just better. The brakes, the seat position is really good. That’s ideal grip, the downforce. Everything does what because I’m not going to have many times it’s supposed to. in the car before the Indianapolis Grand “The first time out with the whole field Prix. there, to finish P3, that’s brilliant. He’s driver for quite a few years, because his the fact that the Circuit of the Americas is “I’ve done some (simulator) work with going to be very strong over here. I’m not approach is so professional. He doesn’t do one of the few American tracks that he’s the team. That’s been really helpful getting sure what the long term plan is, apart from anything stupid, his feedback was good and raced on previously — having competed used to the track, knowing some traits of doing the Indy Grand Prix, but it wouldn’t he knows what he wants from the car. He there in the one and only American the car, but once you get in it is so different. surprise me if he did more than that this acts like a veteran driver. He’s had a lot of Supercars event in 2013. Still, that pace I’m really happy with how we are going. I’ve year. years in a top level series, his approach is is a lofty early achievement in a car very had half a day but I’ve had plenty of new “He’s not really a rookie, and you notice great.” different from his Shell V-Power Ford tyres and we’ve been having a crack.” that. You can tell he’s been a professional In McLaughlin’s favour for the test was Mustang Supercar. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2020 7 ‘Honk more, wait more’ GETTING stuck in rush-hour traffic is and utilises a microphone to track noise a stressful experience anywhere, but getting levels. If it exceeds 85 decibels, the red tooted at from the car behind you the light resets for another 90 seconds. second the light turns green can be more Despite the huge displays, the drivers than enough to push a driver over the edge. that feature in the video don’t seem to be As well as being extremely infuriating, paying much attention to the system, and it’s an annoyance for anyone else at the continue tooting. This results in a wait intersection, so the Mumbai Police Force time worse than the actual tooting. installed preventative measures that are While Mumbai ranks number one as the both ingenious and kind of annoying. world’s most densely populated city, it only In a promo-esque video that was rates as the tenth noisiest city. Guangzhou uploaded to YouTube just last week, the in China takes the top spot, so there’s force shows off the system which was potential for this system to make its way dubbed the ‘Punishing Signal’ that was around the world. installed at a particularly busy Mumbai Hopefully it doesn’t get too successful, intersection. as it almost looks more infuriating than It features a huge screen that displays the the actual tooting that it’s attempting to words, “HONK MORE, WAIT MORE” prevent. Common driving distractions

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