From the December 2008 issue of AutoEMC News:

SAE International and AEM Sign Standards Development Agreement
The SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) International and the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOU) to further the development of standards for the off-highway industry.
AR Release Automotive Transient Generator SystemPossibly not since they had their fall-out […]

Bosch recently opened its largest Asia-Pacific automotive winter test center in Yakeshi, Inner Mongolia. At the center, Bosch will perform cold-weather testing of vehicle safety systems for customers in China and the Asia-Pacific region.
Yakeshi, 1,100 km north of Beijing, is an ideal location for winter test facilities, as winter there lasts five months, from November […]

The Kentucky Post reports that:
A four-month-long investigation by the Scripps station in Kansas City has uncovered government videos, photos, and thousands of pages of reports detailing human corpses being used like impact test dummies in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration funded tests.

Here are two good links from the Electronics Testing & Measurement Bulletin, an e-mail newsletter I receive:

Environmental Stress Screening 101: Free Tutorial
Spectrum Analyzers 101: A Glossary of Testing Terms

The LXI Consortium (LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation) announced today that it has approved and released Revision 1.3 of the LXI Standard.
Revision 1.3 of the LXI Standard allows a manufacturer of Class C compliant instruments to customize their offerings by adding selected features from Class B or Class A categories. Users benefit from an expanding selection […]