When 17-year old Huma Hanif accidentally rear-ended the car in front of her in Fort Bend County, Texas earlier this year, she should have been able to walk away from it. There should have been an exchange of records and information and she should have been able to carry on with her day, ever so slightly worse for the wear.
Instead, she’d become the 10th person in America believed to die ...
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A car’s tires, according to the old adage, are “where the rubber meets the road.” However, another component of the vehicle is equally as important for passenger safety, and scrutiny from two U.S. senators is showing that the component is not nearly as secure as most are led to believe.
It’s your car seat – the very thing responsible for supporting your body within the confines of your vehicle. And ...
continue reading...It started out large enough to be noticed, but not so large that it could be considered unmanageable. What it became, however, was not only the largest recall in the history of the automotive industry, but the largest product recall in consumer history.
The first mention of the Takata airbag recall on this blog happened in a short post in August of 2014. Ten million vehicles; mostly Hondas, were recalled ...
continue reading...It’s every driver’s worst nightmare: those microseconds when your brain has done the math and you know you’re about to have a bad collision.
From the moment of first impact, the computers in modern cars are doing math of their own. Calculating the force of the impact against other environmental factors, the car is asking itself millions of times per second if things are bad enough to deploy its airbags.
As consumers, ...
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Bloomberg reports that General Motors Co. has agreed to pay $900 million to the U.S. Justice Department over an ignition switch flaw linked to the deaths of at least 124 people.
Evidence suggests that GM was aware of the potentially fatal ignition switch defect as early as 2003, when it was reported by a Pontiac owner and demonstrated to officials. The flaw leaves ...
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Recent news reports show that although Chrysler recalled 2.7 million Jeeps in 2013, only a fraction of the faulty vehicles have been fixed, and Jeep fuel tank lawsuits continue to move forward for injuries and deaths caused by improper fuel tank placement.
In June 2013, the American auto manufacturer, Chrysler, agreed to recall 2.7 million Jeep Grand Cherokee and Jeep Liberty units after numerous incidents involving fuel tank fires. ...
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