Volkswagen AG, which reported death and injury claims at the lowest rate of any major automaker in the U.S. in the last decade, agreed to an independent audit of its compliance with a law requiring timely reporting of those claims. …
Despite record auto recalls and rising highway deaths, Congress is ignoring changes sought by safety advocates and proposing giveaways to the auto and trucking industries that the Obama administration and others say could make matters worse. A House Energy and …
Two months after receiving a record $105 million fine for lapses in U.S. auto safety recalls, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV faces new problems over lax safety reports that could lead to additional financial penalties for the Italian-U.S. automaker. Federal regulators …
New research suggests a notable decline in bicyclist deaths in the last several decades, however, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on bike auto collision-related deaths between 1975 and 2012, “though bicycles account for only about …
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV is buying back some defective vehicles, giving $1,000 credits and handing out $100 gift cards to get more owners to come in for repairs after U.S. regulators said the company delayed previous safety efforts. In unveiling …
U.S. safety regulators have rejected an electrical engineer’s request to investigate low-speed unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus cars. The petition was the latest in a string of claims that Toyota vehicles can accelerate on their own dating to 2009. …
Takata Corp., whose exploding airbag modules have been tied to eight fatalities and the largest-ever U.S. automotive recall, is planning an extensive advertising campaign to urge consumers to get the defect fixed. The outreach efforts for a series of massive …
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV waited 18 months to tell federal safety regulators about a security flaw in radios being installed in more than a million vehicles that hackers exploited last month to seize control of a Jeep. The automaker says …
Of the 23 Fiat Chrysler recalls that U.S. regulators investigated, three were so dangerous that the government invoked its most potent power: requiring the company to buy back the vehicles. Owners of hundreds of thousands of pickups and SUVs will …
Nearly 16,000 preventable crashes occur each year due to pedal error – when a driver mistakes the gas pedal for the brake pedal causing sudden vehicle acceleration. Pedal error crashes can cause injury to vehicle occupants, surrounding motorists, pedestrians and …