Items tagged with NHTSA
Watch out, your Ram truck might be trying to make a brake [sic] for it! The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is re-investigating over 1.18 million Dodge Ram pickups that might experience rollaways no thanks to a defect in...
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Another day, another recall, and this time it involves Honda (which also dabbles in reusable rockets, by the way). The automaker is working with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to alert over 259,000 drivers of a...
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A Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard that's taking effect in 2029 requiring auto manufacturers to meet stronger emergency braking system requirements, is being challenged by the Alliance of Automotive Innovation (AAI). The rule expects...
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The first reported driver fatality tied to a Tesla Cybertruck occurred on Monday in the Baytown area of Houston, Texas. Upon veering off the road and crashing into a culvert, the truck burst into flames, trapping and killing the driver. Texas...
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Tesla does a lot of things right, but when it comes to safety and recalls, the much-envied automaker also leads the pack. We're sure it's not a statistic it revels in, but the fact is, it's only June and so far Tesla tops the charts with more...
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As a culmination to a multi-year National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigation, EV manufacturer Tesla is recalling over two million of its Autopilot-equipped vehicles sold in the US. This large-scale summons is meant to...
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Tesla is yet again under investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stemming from a dozen customer reports concerning steering issues on select cars.
According to a recent NHTSA filing, a probe has been...
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Autonomous autos are coming to the masses, eventually, but right now only a handful of states and cities allow the testing of autonomous cars on public roads. To accelerate the rollout of driverless cars, more testing needs to be performed and...
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It's clearer than ever that our future is going to include a lot of automation, and that even includes our passenger cars, trucks, and mass transit. Companies like Google, Tesla, and NVIDIA have been working hard to develop technologies that...
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Finally. That's all that can be really said about Apple admitting to the world that it's working on autonomous driving technologies. The company has been infamously, and perhaps infuriatingly mum on the fact that it's been working on such tech...
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Leaving the home is about to become more dangerous than it already is. That's because the holiday shopping season is about to be kick into full swing, that means a combination of inattentive pedestrians looking down at their smartphones and...
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One of the benefits of an electric vehicle and many hybrids is that they reduce noise pollution compared to their gas guzzling brethren. On the surface, that sounds like a good thing, until you get plowed into by one because you didn't hear it...
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We have some rather tragic news to report in the world of autonomous driving. Via a blog posting on its site, Tesla Motors reported that the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a preliminary investigation...
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By this point, everyone and their dog knows that driving while pecking away on a smartphone dramatically increases the chance of accidents, yet many remain defiant, and sometimes even proud about their foolish deeds. Apparently, the National...
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Alanis Morissette famously sang about there being rain on your wedding day and ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife. She also belted out many other examples of irony, though if she's in need of a new verse, she may want to consider...
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It seems as though the U.S. Government is continually having to save us from ourselves with regards to the vehicles we drive. Over the years, we’ve seen mandates with regards to antilock braking systems (ABS), airbags, stability control systems...
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Expanding a recall dating back to 2008, Japanese automobile airbag manufacturer Takata Corp is doubling the number of recalls for its potentially lethal product in the U.S. from 16.6 million to approximately 34 million vehicles (about one in...
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In an effort to curb drunken driving, the state of Maryland has released an app that helps people decide whether they are sober enough to drive. ENDUI (pronounced “End DUI”) is free for Android and iOS platforms and was launched this week at...
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Airbag maker Takata Corp fessed up that there may be more defective air bags in the wild than previously thought. A defect in the driver-side air bag inflator has already been linked to at least four deaths and over a dozen injuries, along...
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