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Honda Australia has paid a penalty of $18,780 after the competition watchdog, the ACCC, issued it with an infringement notice for an alleged breach of Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme (MVIS scheme) information sharing requirements.

Japanese carmaker Honda plans to strengthen its electric vehicle supply system and capability, with an eye to a future increase in North American EV demand, the company says.

The Federal Court has decided to impose penalties totalling $6 million on Honda Australia, accepting Honda engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct, and made false or misleading representations to customers of former authorised Honda Australia dealerships Brighton Automotive Holdings Pty Ltd (Astoria), Tynan Motors Pty Ltd (Tynan) and Buick Holdings Pty Ltd (Burswood).

Honda Motor Company plans to launch 30 electric vehicle models by 2030, with more than two million units being produced monthly, the company has announced.

Australian electric vehicle sales have picked up in 2021 compared to the previous year, with 8688 vehicles sold in the six months to June, compared to 6900 for the whole of calendar 2020.

Four-time Formula 1 champion Red Bull Racing has chosen Oracle as its cloud infrastructure partner.

About 155,000 vehicles with defective Takata airbags are still running on Australian roads, the Australian Completion and Consumer Commission has warned, adding that there are only six months left for the manufacturers to complete the recall of these automobiles.

The Australian operations of Japanese giant automobile firm Honda have been running smoothly, a spokesperson says, with no effect at this stage on its core functions following the cyber attack on its global IT network.

Despite a 52% rise in the sale of what are described as new energy vehicles (NEVs) in Europe in the final quarter of 2019, the number — 160,000 — means that NEVs only made up 4.4% of the 3.7 million cars that were sold in the quarter.

Nokia is providing an end-to-end 5G portfolio to telecom operator SoftBank, with the company becoming "first in the world" to have successfully completed tests demonstrating that non-standalone 5G technology can be used to commercially operate connected cars.

A security researcher has discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster containing 976 million records belonging to Honda North America, and accessible to anyone who has a Web browser.

About 78,000 vehicles are fitted with faulty Takata airbags which may deploy wrongly in an accident causing metal fragments to be ejected at high speed and inflict serious injuries or even kill the occupants, the ACCC has warned.

Australian car manufacturers have warned that 20,000 vehicles already under recall for faulty Takata airbags are now classified as “critical”, with the competition watchdog issuing an alert that the cars listed as critical should not be driven.

A total of 1.8 million faulty Takata airbags still have to be replaced in vehicles used in Australia, the consumer watchdog says, with the recall likely to run until 2020.

SAS has had machine learning algorithms for years: "the tools have always been there", but only recently have they become economically feasible for everyday use, director of product management for cloud and platform technologies Mike Frost has told iTWire.

Tollway operator EastLink has carried out a second demonstration of hands-free driving, this time with automated speed and steering controls.

Toyota does not appear to be issuing notices to its customers who have cars with defective Takata airbags – until the customers themselves contact the company.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned drivers of cars that have defective Takata airbags to have them replaced if possible before undertaking road trips in the holiday season.

Every year, consumer advocate CHOICE unveils the list of products, services and companies it has deemed as being worthy of a "Shonky Award", and this year's no different!

The WannaCry worm, which hit Windows computers last month, is still making news, with Honda Motor Company reporting that it had to shut down a plant in Sayama, northwest Tokyo, on Monday when it found the worm in its networks.