The U.S. Department of Transportation recently designated 10 “proving grounds” to encourage safe testing of automated vehicle technologies. “The designated...
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State and federal inspectors found four critical defects and 42 non-critical ones in the latest round of oil train and...
Washington is suing the contractor building the $3.1 billion tunnel replacement project for Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct. In a statement...
A government report shows that traffic deaths in New Mexico have increased about 20 percent this year. According to preliminary...
A former Alaska state employee and his supposed masseuse are accused of worker’s compensation fraud. Scott A. Groom and Laurayne...
Two U.S. senators from Montana are urging federal safety regulators to wrap up a yearlong study into whether oil spills...

Devices that record crash-related data would be required in all new cars and light trucks under a U.S. Department of...
Nearly 3,000 cars, trucks and buses that can “talk” began traveling the streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan today as part...
U.S. auto safety regulators on Thursday announced a proposal that would require brake override systems on all new passenger cars...

The Obama administration wants automakers to put limits on vehicle technologies that permit texting and cellphone calling when a car...