NHTSA News
U.S. Agency Considers Expanding Ford Mustang EV Recall
U.S. auto safety regulators said on Monday that they are investigating whether Ford Motor's 2022 recall of nearly 49,000 Ford Mustang Mach-E electric vehicles adequately addressed concerns and ...
Full-Size Pickups Have Highest Theft Rate: NICB
Vehicle thefts rose 7 percent last year, according to newly released analysis by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). The majority of the thefts were of full-size pickups, which made up more ...
U.S. House Panel Considers Reviving Self-Driving Car Regulation
U.S. lawmakers will look to jump start long-stalled legislation on the safe and regulated adoption of self-driving cars at a congressional hearing on July 26. The panel will consider separate draft ...
New US Special Probe Opened to Investigate Fatal Tesla Crash
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday it is opening a new special crash investigation into a fatal accident in California involving a 2018 Tesla Model 3 where advanced ...
Some 2003 Ram Pickup Owners Urged Not to Drive Them After Another Airbag Inflator Death
Stellantis and the U.S. government are urging the owners of some 2003 Dodge Ram pickups to stop driving them after a passenger was killed by an exploding Takata airbag inflator. The company says ...
Despite More Miles Driven, Traffic Fatalities Dropped in Q1 2023
An estimated 9,330 people died in traffic crashes in the first three months of 2023, down 3.3 percent compared to the 9,645 estimated fatalities during the same time in 2022, according to the ...
Updated Responses From Tesla Sought in Autopilot Probe
U.S. auto safety regulators said on Thursday they are seeking updated responses and current data for an ongoing probe into 830,000 Tesla vehicles and the automaker's advanced driver assistance system ...
Airbag Maker Can’t Promise Inflators Won’t Explode, Hurl Shrapnel
A company that makes airbag inflators that have exploded in eight incidents involving two deaths and seven injuries argued Tuesday that it can't say for sure whether its inflators might cause further ...