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Supersize Electric Cars Are Pushing Road Safety to the Limit
American roads looked different when the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety built its car-smashing crash test system in the early…
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Tesla’s 2023 Recall of Full Self-Driving Targets a ‘Fundamental’ Flaw
Tesla told the agency this week that customers had filed warranty claims matching the situations highlighted by NHTSA on at…
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Robot Cars Are Causing 911 False Alarms in San Francisco
For some residents of San Francisco, the robotic future of driving is just a tap away. Ride-hailing services from GM subsidiary Cruise…
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A Damning US Report Lays Bare Amazon’s Worker Injury Crisis
Amazon was hit with an unusually forceful safety citation by federal investigators in the US today. The findings appear to back…
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San Francisco’s Killer Police Robots Threaten the City’s Most Vulnerable
One effect of AB 481 is to add local oversight to hardware like the kind obtained through a US Department…
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No One Knows How Safe New Driver-Assistance Systems Really Are
This week, a US Department of Transportation report detailed the crashes that advanced driver-assistance systems have been involved in over…
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Apple Embraces the Ever-Expanding Dashboard Touchscreen
In Daniel McGehee’s informed opinion, it’s simply too late to put the genie back in the bottle. People drive an…
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Cars
Hyundai Will Invest $50 Million in Michigan Safety Center As Part of Recall Settlement
Because of problems with some engines in 1.6 million Hyundai and Kia vehicles from a decade or so ago, NHTSA…
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The Feds Plan to Reduce Roadway Deaths—With Smarter Road Design
Statistics help tell stories, and one often touted by technologists and engineers and police officers and even the federal government…
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Cars
IIHS Will Add Safety Scores for Self-Driving Car Systems
There are no self-driving cars available to own today, but that isn’t stopping automakers from hyping that these Level 2+…
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