Drunk-Driver Detectors for Cars Mandated in Infrastructure Bill August 3, 2021 By Keith Laing and Lillianna Byington New cars will be required to have technology to detect drunk drivers and a system to keep children from being...
US Regulators to More Closely Monitor Advanced Driver Safety Systems June 30, 2021 By Ben Klayman DETROIT — U.S. regulators on Tuesday said they would keep a closer eye on the automotive industry as it rolls...
U.S. to Seek Automated Braking Requirement for Heavy Trucks June 14, 2021 By Tom Krisher DETROIT (AP) — In a reversal from Trump administration policies, U.S. auto safety regulators say they will move to require...
Self-Driving Car Bill Reintroduced in House Minus Biggest Backer September 24, 2020 By Keith Laing Legislation that would allow carmakers to sell as many as 100,000 self-driving vehicles per year in the U.S. is being...
U.S. Will Not Require Automakers to Recall 56M Takata Air Bag Inflators May 8, 2020 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON — U.S. auto safety regulators will not require automakers to recall 56 million additional Takata air bag inflators, the...
Highway Safety Administration Proposes Revising Auto Safety Rules to Speed Self-Driving Cars March 18, 2020 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Tuesday it was proposing sweeping changes to U.S. safety requirements...
How Plaintiff Lawyers Help Corporate America Keep its Secrets November 7, 2019 By Jaimi Dowdell and Benjamin Lesser Paula Lawlor was sifting through piles of internal General Motors Co documents in a hotel room outside of Los Angeles...
U.S. Probes Nissan’s Top Model Over Sudden Unintended Braking September 12, 2019 By Ryan Beene The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating Nissan Motor Co.’s top-selling model after hundreds of drivers complained a...
Clarence M. Ditlow III, Auto Safety Advocate, Dies November 14, 2016 Clarence M. Ditlow III, the executive director of the Center for Auto Safety whose work over four decades forced the...
Safety Advocate Wants Government to Reopen Jeep Fire Investigation February 22, 2016 By TOM KRISHER An auto safety advocate is calling on the government to reopen an investigation of rear-crash fires in older Jeep SUVs...