Drugged Driving Increases as Drunk Driving Declines February 9, 2015 The nation’s decades-long campaign to combat drunk driving continues to make our roads safer, but use of marijuana and prescription...
NHTSA Will Add Automatic Braking to Consumer Star Rating System January 26, 2015 By Jeff Plungis U.S. regulators will add automatic braking to a list of technologies considered as beneficial to safety in its influential star-rating...
Safety Agency Investigates Stalling Problem in Ford Trucks January 20, 2015 Federal regulators are investigating whether Ford Motor Co. should expand a 2013 safety recall of diesel trucks. The previous recall...
Safety Agency Closes Mercedes Fuel Leak Probe December 24, 2014 U.S. safety officials have ended their nearly three-year investigation into more than 280,000 Mercedes-Benz E-Class cars, after they found that...
Traffic Deaths Fell 3% Nationwide in 2013 December 23, 2014 The number of traffic deaths nationwide dropped just over 3 percent last year, and the rate of deaths per 100...
Takata Takes Out Newspaper Ads in Reaction to Airbag Crisis December 19, 2014 By Craig Trudell and Masatsugu Horie Takata Corp., the embattled air-bag maker, stepped up its response to a global auto safety crisis by distributing an open...
Senate Approves Rosekind as New Auto Safety Chief December 18, 2014 By JOAN LOWY The Senate on Tuesday confirmed a new administrator to lead the government’s auto safety agency, which faces complaints that regulators...
New Cellphone App Tells You How Many Drinks is too Many December 16, 2014 A new federally funded cellphone app allows people who may have had one too many to get an idea just...
Mazda Expands Airbag Recall to Nationwide December 12, 2014 By YURI KAGEYAMA Mazda is expanding its U.S. recall for Takata airbags that may explode to the entire country, following Japanese rival Honda...
Honda Could be Fined $35M for Underreporting U.S. Claims November 26, 2014 By Jeff Plungis and Jeff Green Honda Motor Co. said it failed to report more than 1,700 claims of injury or death involving its cars to...