Here are some practical tips from the NHTSA as we celebrate Tire Safety Month. As Americans take to the roads for summer travel and vacations, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is reminding everybody during National Tire Safety Month to check their tires to make sure they're ready to roll.
The NHTSA issues a cease and desist letter to the makers of Autopilot Buddy marketed as 'Tesla autopilot nag reduction device' that disables some safety features of Tesla vehicles.
The US Environmental Protection Agency asked Mistubishi Motors to provide more tests and information regarding its fuel test scandal. The said issue has brought the market value of the Japanese automaker at record low.
The artificial intelligence in a self-driving car can be treated as a human driver from the legal perspecrive, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ruled in a decision that could set an important precedent for Google's own self-driving car.
The U.S. goverenment is on full support to car manufacturers to develop their own prototypes of self-driving vehicles. It has allocated funds to aid in the said technology.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCHA.MI) (FCAU.N) has agreed to pay $70 million in fines to resolve a U.S. investigation that it failed to disclose vehicle crash death and injury reports, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
U.S. auto safety regulators on Monday invited outside companies and individuals to apply for the job of independent monitor for the massive recall of Takata Corp air bag inflators.
The top U.S. auto safety regulator on Tuesday imposed a relatively modest $70-million fine on air-bag supplier Takata Corp (7312.T) and ordered it to stop making inflators that use ammonium nitrate.
U.S. regulators said on Monday they could expand their investigation into Takata Corp (7312.T) air bag inflators beyond 11 automakers, as questions arose about whether vehicle design played a role in the devices posing a deadly risk to the public.
Two months after receiving a record $105 million fine for lapses in U.S. auto safety recalls, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCHA.MI) faces new problems over lax safety reports that could lead to additional financial penalties for the Italian-U.S. automaker.
The U.S. auto safety watchdog, toughening its stance against manufacturer defects, announced on Sunday a record $105 million in fines against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCHA.MI) over lapses in safety recalls involving millions of vehicles.
A U.S. safety regulator on Wednesday ordered Takata Corp (7312.T) to preserve all air-bag inflators removed through a recall process as evidence for both a federal investigation and private litigation cases.
U.S. regulators on Friday slapped Takata Corp with a $14,000 per-day fine for failing to fully cooperate with a probe of its faulty air bags and revealed that a fraction of the 17 million cars recalled because of the problems have been repaired.
The number of U.S. drivers under the influence of alcohol is steadily dropping, but the use of illegal drugs by drivers is on the rise, new data from a U.S. Transportation Department survey showed on Friday.
U.S. safety regulators have closed investigations into about 500,000 Ford Motor Co (F.N) and about 100,000 General Motors Co (GM.N) vehicles without calling for recalls, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday.
Honda Motor Co (7267.T) failed to notify U.S. safety regulators of 1,729 claims of injuries and deaths related to accidents in its vehicles since 2003, the automaker acknowledged on Monday.
An executive from Japan's Takata Corp (7312.T) told U.S. senators on Thursday that the supplier is urgently trying to ramp up replacement parts for millions of vehicles equipped with potentially deadly air bags, but said it may not be able to move quickly enough.
Takata Corp (7312.T) faces a long battle to gauge the fallout from a fast-moving air bag crisis as recalls mount up, adding to the costs for the loss-making Japanese auto parts maker.
Ford Motor Co F.N. said on Sunday night it was cooperating with U.S. safety regulators investigating a report the driver of a 2007 Ford Mustang was injured in August by a metal fragment from the car’s air bag.
