Regulators Raid Toyota Offices Over Safety Scandal, Sending Stock Down June 4, 2024 By Nicholas Takahashi Toyota Motor Corp. and other carmakers embroiled in a fresh certification scandal halted shipments of a handful of models and...
Japan Auto Safety Scandal Widens; Toyota Halts Shipments of Some Vehicles June 3, 2024 By Daniel Leussink A safety test scandal at Japanese automakers widened on Monday, with Toyota Motor and Mazda both halting shipments of some...
Tesla to Recall 125,227 Vehicles Over Faulty Seat Belt Warning System May 31, 2024 Tesla is recalling 125,227 vehicles in the U.S. due to a malfunction in its seat belt warning system that can...
Safety Probe Into Waymo Self-Driving Vehicles Finds More Incidents May 28, 2024 By David Shepardson The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it has learned of nine additional incidents that raise concerns about the...
Alphabet’s Waymo Probed by US After Autonomous Car Incidents May 14, 2024 By Keith Laing The top US auto-safety regulator opened an investigation into Waymo, the autonomous-vehicle subsidiary of subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., after 22...
US to Require New Cars to Have Emergency Braking Systems by 2029 April 30, 2024 By David Shepardson Nearly all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the United States will be required to have automatic emergency braking...
Tesla Settles Case Over Fatal Autopilot Crash of Apple Engineer April 9, 2024 By Abhirup Roy and Aditya Soni Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a 2018 car crash that killed an Apple engineer after his Model X, operating...
Nationwide Survey Finds Distracted Driving Still an Issue April 4, 2024 A survey of passenger car and commercial drivers finds that distracted driving is still a significant safety issue, according to...
Ferrari Sued for Failing to Fix ‘Life-Threatening’ Brake Defect March 19, 2024 By Robert Burnson Ferrari NV was accused in a US lawsuit of failing to fix a “dangerous safety defect” with the brakes in...
Tesla, Rivals Get Low Marks for Automated-Driving Technology March 13, 2024 By Joseph White Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self Driving technology and nine other assisted-driving systems marketed by major automakers received “poor” ratings from...