The first reported injuries suffered in a self-driving car occurred earlier this month. A Google Lexus was driving itself toward an intersection in Mountain View during rush hour. The self-driving Lexus stopped at an intersection. The light was green, but …
A four year old girl filed a lawsuit against Nissan, blaming the design of its floor mats for her mother’s death. The suspect, a 65 year old man driving a 2012 Nissan Versa, ran into five people on Sonoma Boulevard …
A San Francisco Superior Court jury ruled last month that a Yellow Cab driver was an “ostensible employee” of Yellow Cab, making the company liable for a car crash caused by the cab driver. The jury awarded $8 million to …
The driving records of California’s self-driving cars have recently been made public, and they are not impressive. The cars have been on public roads in California since September 2014 – the first month that the state issued permits for companies …
Takata Corp. recently announced a recall of almost 34 million vehicles due to faulty air bags. The company had initially recalled 17 million vehicles because of air bag problems, but finally bowed to pressure from regulators to recall more vehicles. …
An angry Uber driver intentionally ran into a man riding a bicycle at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco earlier this month on a busy Sunday afternoon. The attack occurred after the bicyclist rode up to the Uber vehicle and began …
When most people think of crashes involving tractor trailers, they think of the injuries and deaths of the people in passenger vehicles that are hit by trucks. However, hundreds of truckers are killed every year in accidents. Among the 2.6 …
A new study from the University of Michigan claims that putting technology that prevents drunk drivers from starting a vehicle into every car and truck in the U.S. could save 59,000 lives and $343 million over 15 years. The study …
Federal regulators from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently announced that over two million Honda, Toyota, and Chrysler vehicles have been recalled a second time for a problem with their air bags. The vehicles have previously been recalled for …
Even though certain models of Jeeps were recalled 18 months ago for defective gas tanks, drivers are still being killed in accidents involving the defective vehicles, many of which have not been repaired. The recalled vehicles are 2002-2007 Jeep Libertys …
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