Few insurers cut rates for new electronic safety devices
After hearing good things about the latest in crash-prevention technologies, you decided to add automatic emergency braking to your new car.
Study illuminates big performance gap for vehicle headlights
There may be a reason why people have trouble seeing while driving at night, and it’s not their eyesight. A new rating of the headlights of more than 30 midsized car models gave only one model a grade of “good.”
Millennials are finally arriving in the car market
Millennials were once a source of panic in the auto industry. Dubbed the “go nowhere” generation, they weren’t getting driver’s licenses, never mind buying cars. Headlines declared it was “The End of Car Culture.”
NHTSA investigating Honda for incomplete reports
Federal regulators are investigating whether Honda Motor Co. failed to report deaths and injuries that occurred in its vehicles.
U.S. official: Auto safety agency under review
Transportation officials are reviewing the “safety culture” of the federal agency that oversees auto recalls.
U.S. agency warns car owners to get air bags fixed
The U.S. government issued an urgent plea to more than 4.7 million people to get the air bags in their cars fixed, amid concern that a defect in the devices can possibly kill or injure the driver or passengers.
Google to build prototype of truly driverless car
Google plans to build and launch onto city streets a small fleet of subcompact cars that could operate without a person at the wheel.
Drivers beware: Your air bag may not deploy
Here’s an unsettling fact about cars equipped with air bags: They don’t always deploy when drivers — or regulators — expect them to.
Tesla charging station to bring electric cars to Wyoming
In the least populated county in the least populated state, old Ford and Chevy pickup trucks roam — and rule — the roads.
Sticker shock: Cubans aghast at car prices
Cubans are eagerly flocking to Havana car dealerships as a new law takes effect eliminating a special permit requirement that has greatly restricted vehicle ownership in the country. To their dismay on Friday, the first day the law was in force, they found sharply hiked prices, some of them light years beyond all but the most well-heeled islanders.
