WASHINGTON — U.S. auto safety regulators on Monday closed a six-year-old investigation into 1.47 million Ford Explorer SUVs over reports of exhaust odors in vehicle compartments and exposure to carbon monoxide without seeking a recall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it had conducted an in-depth investigation first opened in July 2016 that
WASHINGTON — U.S. auto safety regulators said Friday they have opened a formal safety probe into the autonomous driving system in vehicles produced by General Motors’ robotaxi unit Cruise LLC. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it has received notices of incidents in which self-driving Cruise vehicles “may engage in inappropriately hard braking
Traffic fatalities on U.S. roads declined in the second quarter, halting an almost two-year rise even as Americans are driving more. Some 10,590 people died in car crashes from April through June, down 4.9% from the same period in 2021, according to estimates released Monday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Fatalities had been increasing since
Labor Day doesn’t have the same wild party reputation as, say, the Fourth of July or Memorial Day. The long weekend at the beginning of September is like the last lap bell for the season, representing the end of summer and being fashionably attired in white clothes. However, it seems there’s quite the rip tide
The scene of a fatal accident involving a Tesla and a motorcycle on July 24, 2022 near Draper, Utah. The Tesla driver said he was using Autopilot. (Utah Department of Public Safety via AP) DETROIT — Two crashes involving Teslas apparently running on Autopilot are drawing scrutiny from federal regulators and point to a potential
WASHINGTON — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a special investigation into a recent crash of a Cruise vehicle in California that resulted in minor injuries, the agency said on Thursday. The auto safety agency did not identify the specific crash, but a Cruise vehicle operating in driverless autonomous mode was involved in
WASHINGTON — The head of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday the agency plans a new push to convince Americans to stop speeding, hoping to reduce traffic deaths which have risen sharply in recent years. “We have a new speed campaign that’s going to be kicking off in a couple of weeks,”
