Traffic accident deaths in the U.S. continue to rise, even while deaths related to distracted driving decline. Pedestrian and motorcyclist...
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) News
When the U.S. government finally got around to regulating auto safety in 1967, it insisted that every car have seat...
A new lawsuit accuses the U.S. government of being too slow to implement rules requiring that rear seat vehicle passengers...

Three weeks ago, I was walking home on a dark, snowy night in Concord, Massachusetts. The next thing I knew,...

The U.S. government on Monday finalized long-delayed rules that will require “quiet cars” like electric vehicles and hybrids to emit...

Self-driving cars are getting closer by the day, but they won’t be coming from hacking phenomenon George Hotz. Hotz, the...

The Obama administration’s proposed guidelines for self-driving cars, to be formally unveiled Tuesday, include 15 benchmarks automakers will need to...
For years, U.S. investigators have been calling for more automation on motor vehicles, such as sensors that slam on the...

Tesla Motors alerted regulators to a fatality in one of its electric cars in partial self-driving Autopilot mode nine days...
Takata Corp. has been ordered to replace as many as 40 million additional air bags linked to deadly malfunctions, more...