Highway Transportation Bill Rounds Out Safety Provisions for Auto, Freight November 9, 2015 A sweeping transportation bill approved by the House on Thursday would put a new emphasis on freight corridors when designating...
Takata Fined $70M in Airbag Recall Case November 5, 2015 By TOM KRISHER U.S. auto safety regulators fined Takata Corp. of Japan $70 million for lapses in the way it handled recalls of...
NHTSA Finds Unreported Volkswagen Deaths, Injuries November 2, 2015 By Jeff Green, Margaret Cronin Fisk and Jeff Plungis Volkswagen AG failed to report at least one death and three injuries involving its vehicles to a U.S. regulator’s database...
Volkswagen Agrees to Audit of Injury, Death Claims October 26, 2015 By Jeff Green, Margaret Cronin Fisk and Jeff Plungis Volkswagen AG, which reported death and injury claims at the lowest rate of any major automaker in the U.S. in...
Federal Bill Offers Giveaways to Auto, Trucking Industries October 22, 2015 By JOAN LOWY Despite record auto recalls and rising highway deaths, Congress is ignoring changes sought by safety advocates and proposing giveaways to...
Fiat Chrysler Fails to Report Some Death and Injury Claims Despite Record $105M Fine October 1, 2015 Two months after receiving a record $105 million fine for lapses in U.S. auto safety recalls, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV...
Adjustments in Already Available Auto Technology Could Reduce Frequency of Auto Bike Collisions September 3, 2015 By Denise Johnson New research suggests a notable decline in bicyclist deaths in the last several decades, however, according to a Centers for...
Buy Backs, Gift Cards and Credits Offered by Fiat Chrysler September 2, 2015 By Jeff Plungis Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV is buying back some defective vehicles, giving $1,000 credits and handing out $100 gift cards to...
Auto Safety Agency Declines to Probe Toyota’s Unintended Acceleration August 25, 2015 U.S. safety regulators have rejected an electrical engineer’s request to investigate low-speed unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus cars. The...
Takata Plans Ad Campaign to Alert Drivers of Recalled Airbag Risk August 12, 2015 By Jeff Plungis Takata Corp., whose exploding airbag modules have been tied to eight fatalities and the largest-ever U.S. automotive recall, is planning...