General Motors' self-driving subsidiary, Cruise, will pay a $1.5 million penalty to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) due to incomplete reporting about a 2022 pedestrian crash. The consent order requires Cruise to submit a corrective action plan and safety reports every 90 days for the next two years. The crash involved a pedestrian being struck and subsequently dragged by a Cruise robotaxi after a collision with a human-driven vehicle. NHTSA emphasizes the necessity for transparency and safety in automated driving systems.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has closed one of two investigations into General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicles after the company agreed to recall 1,194 units due to issues with unexpected hard braking. The probe, which began in December 2022, analyzed over 7,600 reports and resulted in ten crashes with four injuries. Following a software update, Cruise reported reduced incidents of hard braking, although a separate investigation into pedestrian-related incidents is ongoing.
Cruise, General Motors' self-driving unit, has announced a multi-year partnership with Uber to integrate its robotaxis into the ride-hailing platform by 2025. This partnership comes as Cruise prepares to reintroduce its autonomous vehicles following a safety incident last October that affected its operations. Despite previous setbacks, including losing permits in California, Cruise has resumed vehicle testing in cities like Phoenix and Dallas and is actively working with regulators to ensure safety and compliance.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed a rule to enhance pedestrian safety, particularly focusing on the design of SUVs and pickup trucks. The proposed regulations aim to minimize pedestrian head injuries by establishing testing protocols and performance requirements. Pedestrian deaths rose by 57% from 2013 to 2022, prompting this initiative, which is projected to save 67 lives annually. The rule is part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and incorporates the use of human-like dummies in testing. Automakers will have 60 days to comment on the proposal.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against General Motors (GM), alleging the company collected and sold drivers' data without consent from 1.8 million Texans. The suit claims GM misled consumers regarding the purpose of data collection through its OnStar system, which tracks driving habits and behaviors. GM purportedly sold this telematics data to insurers, impacting car insurance premiums and violating consumer privacy. The lawsuit seeks compensation for affected drivers and penalties for GM's practices.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is proposing new regulations to reduce pedestrian injuries caused by SUVs and pickup trucks, which are increasingly large. A new testing protocol will simulate head-to-hood impact, targeting vehicles weighing under 10,000 pounds. Pedestrian deaths rose 57% from 2013 to 2022, leading NHTSA to estimate that the rule could save 67 lives annually. The proposal follows a requirement under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and aims to align U.S. standards with global safety guidelines, allowing for public and automaker comment.
Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) are technologies that assist drivers with the safe operation of a vehicle. Through a human-machine interface, ADAS increase car and road safety. ADAS use automated technology, such as sensors and cameras, to detect nearby obstacles or driver errors, and respond accordingly. ADAS can enable various levels of autonomous driving. As most road crashes occur due to human error, ADAS are developed to automate, adapt, and enhance vehicle technology for safety and better driving. ADAS are proven to reduce road fatalities by minimizing human error. Safety features are designed to avoid crashes and collisions by offering technologies that alert the driver to problems, implementing safeguards, and taking control of the vehicle if necessary. ADAS may provide adaptive cruise control, assist in avoiding collisions, alert drivers to possible obstacles, warn of lane departure, assist in lane centering, incorporate satellite navigation, provide traffic warnings, provide navigational assistance through smartphones, automate lighting, or provide other features.According to a 2021 research report from Canalys, approximately 33 percent of new vehicles sold in the United States, Europe, Japan, and China had ADAS. The firm also predicted that fifty percent of all automobiles on the road by the year 2030 would be ADAS-enabled.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA NITS-ə) is an agency of the U.S. federal government, part of the Department of Transportation, focused on transportation safety in the United States.NHTSA is charged with writing and enforcing Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards as well as regulations for motor vehicle theft resistance and fuel economy, as part of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) system. FMVSS 209 was the first standard to become effective on March 1, 1967. NHTSA licenses vehicle manufacturers and importers, allows or blocks the import of vehicles and safety-regulated vehicle parts, administers the vehicle identification number (VIN) system, develops the anthropomorphic dummies used in U.S. safety testing as well as the test protocols themselves, and provides vehicle insurance cost information. The agency has asserted preemptive regulatory authority over greenhouse gas emissions, but this has been disputed by such state regulatory agencies as the California Air Resources Board.The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards are contained in the United States 49 CFR 571. Additional federal vehicle standards are contained elsewhere in the CFR. Another of NHTSA's activities is the collection of data about motor vehicle crashes, available in various data files maintained by the National Center for Statistics and Analysis, in particular the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), the Crash Investigation Sampling System (CISS, where technicians investigate a random sample of police crash reports), and others.
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - General Motors ( GM ) was ordered by a federal appeals court to face a class action claiming it violated laws of 26 U.S. states by knowingly selling several hundred thousand cars, trucks and SUVs with faulty transmissions. The 6th U.S.
U.S. auto safety regulators are considering a recall of nearly one million Dodge Journey SUVs after a woman died in a fire while trapped inside her vehicle in 2022. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating complaints regarding inoperative door locks and windows that hinder escape in emergencies. The inquiry, initially focused on the 2009 model, has been broadened to include models sold until 2020. Stellantis, the parent company, is cooperating with the investigation.
Texas has filed a lawsuit against General Motors (GM), alleging violations of consumer protection laws over misleading data collection practices. The lawsuit claims that GM did not inform new car owners that their driving data would be sold, leading to potential fines of $10,000 per vehicle sold in Texas since 2015. Attorney General Ken Paxton is also seeking additional penalties for violations affecting seniors. This action follows a recent $1.4 billion settlement Texas reached with Meta over privacy concerns.
U DETROIT -- U.S auto safety regulators have closed a five-year investigation into seat belt failures in some General Motors SUVs after the company issued extended warranty coverage. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents posted on its website Tuesday that warranty coverage issued in June of 2019 addressed the problem that caused the recall. In 2014, the company recalled more than 1.3 million midsize SUVs because a flexible steel cable that connects the seat belts to the front outside seats could fail over time and not hold people in a crash.
General Motors is recalling 21,469 2023-2024 Cadillac Lyriq all-wheel drive SUVs due to concerns that the antilock brake system may activate unexpectedly, which could increase the risk of a crash. The recall follows a preliminary investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) regarding over 3,000 vehicles that experienced loss of brake assist. GM plans to resolve the issue with an over-the-air update or through a dealer at no cost to owners, who will be notified by mail on September 23, 2024.
The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was enacted in the United States in 1966 to empower the federal government to set and administer new safety standards for motor vehicles and road traffic safety. The Act was the first mandatory federal safety standards for motor vehicles. The Act created the National Highway Safety Bureau (now National Highway Traffic Safety Administration). The Act was one of a number of initiatives by the government in response to increasing number of cars and associated fatalities and injuries on the road following a period when the number of people killed on the road had increased 6-fold and the number of vehicles was up 11-fold since 1925. The reduction of the rate of death attributable to motor-vehicle crashes in the United States represents the successful public health response to a great technologic advance of the 20th century—the motorization of the United States.
The 2009–11 Toyota vehicle recalls involved three separate but related recalls of automobiles by the Japanese manufacturer Toyota Motor Corporation, which occurred at the end of 2009 and the start of 2010. Toyota initiated the recalls, the first two with the assistance of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), after reports that several vehicles experienced unintended acceleration. The first recall, on November 2, 2009, was to correct a possible incursion of an incorrect or out-of-place front driver's side floor mat into the foot pedal well, which can cause pedal entrapment. The second recall, on January 21, 2010, was begun after some crashes were shown not to have been caused by floor mat incursion. This latter defect was identified as a possible mechanical sticking of the accelerator pedal causing unintended acceleration, referred to as Sticking Accelerator Pedal by Toyota. The original action was initiated by Toyota in their Defect Information Report, dated October 5, 2009, amended January 27, 2010. Following the floor mat and accelerator pedal recalls, Toyota also issued a separate recall for hybrid anti-lock brake software in February 2010.As of January 28, 2010, Toyota had announced recalls of approximately 5.2 million vehicles for the pedal entrapment/floor mat problem, and an additional 2.3 million vehicles for the accelerator pedal problem. Approximately 1.7 million vehicles are subject to both. Certain related Lexus models and the Pontiac Vibe (the latter being based on the Corolla) were also affected. The next day, Toyota widened the recall to include 1.8 million vehicles in Europe and 75,000 in China. By then, the worldwide total number of cars recalled by Toyota stood at 9 million. Sales of multiple recalled models were suspended for several weeks as a result of the accelerator pedal recall, with the vehicles awaiting replacement parts. As of January 2010, 21 deaths were alleged due to the pedal problem since 2000, but following the January 28 recall, additional NHTSA complaints brought the alleged total to 37. The number of alleged victims and reported problems sharply increased following the recall announcements, which were heavily covered by U.S. media, although the causes of individual reports were difficult to verify. Government officials, automotive experts, Toyota, and members of the general public contested the scope of the sudden acceleration issue and the veracity of victim and problem reports. Various parties attributed sudden unintended acceleration reports to mechanical, electric, and driver error causes. Some US owners that had their recalled vehicles repaired still reported accelerator pedal issues, leading to investigations and the finding of improper repairs. The recalls further led to additional NHTSA and Toyota investigations, along with multiple lawsuits.On February 8, 2011, the NHTSA, in collaboration with NASA, released its findings into the investigation on the Toyota drive-by-wire throttle system. After a 10-month search, NASA and NHTSA scientists found no electronic defect in Toyota vehicles. Driver error or pedal misapplication was found responsible for most of the incidents. The report ended by stating, "Our conclusion is Toyota's problems were mechanical, not electrical." This included sticking accelerator pedals, and pedals caught under floor mats.However, on October 24, 2013, a jury ruled against Toyota and found that unintended acceleration could have been caused due to deficiencies in the drive-by-wire throttle system or Electronic Throttle Control System (ETCS). Michael Barr of the Barr Group testified that NASA had not been able to complete its examination of Toyota's ETCS and that Toyota did not follow best practices for real time life-critical software, and that a single bit flip which can be caused by cosmic rays could cause unintended acceleration. As well, the run-time stack of the real-time operating system was not large enough and that it was possible for the stack to grow large enough to overwrite data that could cause unintended acceleration. As a result, Toyota has entered into settlement talks with its plaintiffs.
The US Department of Transportation has laid out a nationwide road safety plan [PDF] that will lead to cars communicating with each other. The agency is hoping that broadly deploying vehicle-to-everything (V2X) tech will boost its "commitment to pursue a comprehensive approach to reduce the number of roadway fatalities to zero." The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 40,990 people died in motor vehicle crashes last year. V2X enables vehicles to stay in touch with each other as well as pedestrians, cyclists, other road users and roadside infrastructure. It lets them share information such as their position and speed, as well as road conditions.
Fatalities that result from motor vehicle crashes are the second largest cause of accidental deaths in the United States.Motor vehicle fatalities in the United States are reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The NHTSA only reports deaths that occur on public roads, and does not include parking lots, driveways, and private roads. It also excludes indirect car-related fatalities. For more details, see Transportation safety in the United States.From the beginning of recorded statistics until the 1970s, total traffic deaths in the United States generally trended upwards, except during the Great Depression and World War II. From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year decreased 14.97% while the number of deaths per capita decreased by 35.46%. The 32,479 traffic fatalities in 2011 were the lowest in 62 years, since 1949. For 2016, the NHTSA reported 37,461 people killed in 34,436 fatal motor vehicle crashes, an average of 102 per day. In 2022, there were 42,795 total motor vehicle fatalities.
A Tesla Cybertruck crashed into a culvert in Texas, killing the driver in what appears to be the first fatality involving the vehicle. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating the incident, which occurred early Monday. The cause of the crash is unclear, but the Cybertruck was not using Autopilot as that feature is not yet available. The vehicle subsequently burst into flames, complicating identification efforts. This incident marks a serious concern as Tesla has issued multiple recalls for the Cybertruck since its release in November 2023.
Road traffic safety refers to the methods and measures used to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured. Typical road users include pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, vehicle passengers, and passengers of on-road public transport (mainly buses and trams).Best practices in modern road safety strategy: The basic strategy of a Safe System approach is to ensure that in the event of a crash, the impact energies remain below the threshold likely to produce either death or serious injury. This threshold will vary from crash scenario to crash scenario, depending upon the level of protection offered to the road users involved. For example, the chances of survival for an unprotected pedestrian hit by a vehicle diminish rapidly at speeds greater than 30 km/h, whereas for a properly restrained motor vehicle occupant the critical impact speed is 50 km/h (for side impact crashes) and 70 km/h (for head-on crashes).As sustainable solutions for classes of road safety have not been identified, particularly low-traffic rural and remote roads, a hierarchy of control should be applied, similar to classifications used to improve occupational safety and health. At the highest level is sustainable prevention of serious injury and death crashes, with sustainable requiring all key result areas to be considered. At the second level is real-time risk reduction, which involves providing users at severe risk with a specific warning to enable them to take mitigating action. The third level is about reducing the crash risk which involves applying the road-design standards and guidelines (such as from AASHTO), improving driver behavior and enforcement. It is important to note that drivers' traffic behaviors are significantly influenced by their perceptions and attitudes.Traffic safety has been studied as a science for more than 75 years.
General Motors Company (GM) is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The company is most known for owning and manufacturing four automobile brands, Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac and Buick. By sales, it was the largest automaker in the United States in 2022, and was the largest in the world for 77 years before losing the top spot to Toyota in 2008.General Motors operates manufacturing plants in eight countries. In addition to its four core brands, GM also holds interests in Chinese brands Baojun and Wuling via SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile. GM further owns the BrightDrop delivery vehicle manufacturer, a namesake defense vehicles division which produces military vehicles for the United States government and military, the vehicle safety, security, and information services provider OnStar, the auto parts company ACDelco, a namesake financial lending service, and majority ownership in the self-driving cars enterprise Cruise LLC.The company originated as a holding company for Buick established on September 16, 1908, by William C. Durant, the largest seller of horse-drawn vehicles at the time. The first half of the 20th century saw the company grow into an automotive behemoth through acquisitions; going into the second half, the company pursued innovation and new offerings to consumers as well as collaborations with NASA to develop the earliest electric vehicles. The current entity was established in 2009 after the General Motors Chapter 11 reorganization.As of 2024, General Motors ranks 25th by total revenue out of all American companies on the Fortune 500 and 50th on the Fortune Global 500. In 2023, the company was ranked 70th in the Forbes Global 2000. In 2021, GM announced its intent to end production of vehicles using internal combustion engines by 2035, as part of its plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040.
Ford and Mazda have issued do-not-drive warnings for over 457,000 vehicles with recalled Takata air bags. Ford's warning affects 374,290 vehicles from model years 2004-2012, including Lincoln and Mercury models, while Mazda's covers 82,893 vehicles from model years 2003-2015. The NHTSA advises owners not to drive these vehicles until repairs are made. A total of 27 fatalities and at least 400 injuries in the U.S. have been linked to defective Takata air bags to date.
The General Motors EV1 is an electric car produced and leased by General Motors from 1996 to 1999. It was the first purpose-designed electric vehicle of the modern era from a major automaker and the first GM car designed to be an electric vehicle from the outset.The decision to mass-produce an electric car came after GM received a favorable reception for its 1990 Impact electric concept car, upon which the design of the EV1 drew heavily. Inspired partly by the Impact's perceived potential for success, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in 1990 passed a mandate that made the production and sale of zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) a requirement for the seven major automakers selling cars in the United States to continue to market their vehicles in California.The EV1 was made available through limited lease-only agreements, initially to residents of the cities of Los Angeles, California, and Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. EV1 lessees were officially participants in a "real-world engineering evaluation" and market study into the feasibility of producing and marketing a commuter electric vehicle in select U.S. markets undertaken by GM's Advanced Technology Vehicles group. The cars were not available for purchase, and could be serviced only at designated Saturn dealerships. Within a year of the EV1's release, leasing programs were also launched in San Francisco and Sacramento, California, along with a limited program in the state of Georgia.While customer reaction to the EV1 was positive, GM believed that electric cars occupied an unprofitable niche of the automobile market, and ended up crushing most of the cars, regardless of protesting customers. Furthermore, an alliance of the major automakers litigated the CARB regulation in court, resulting in a slackening of the ZEV stipulation, permitting the companies to produce super-low-emissions vehicles, natural gas vehicles, and hybrid cars in place of pure electrics. The EV1 program was subsequently discontinued in 2002, and all cars on the road were taken back by the company, under the terms of the lease. Lessees were not given the option to purchase their cars from GM, which cited parts, service, and liability regulations. The majority of the EV1s taken back were crushed, with about 40 delivered to museums and educational institutes with their electric powertrains deactivated, under the agreement that the cars were not to be reactivated and driven on the road. The only intact EV1 was donated to the Smithsonian Institution. General Motors also allegedly gave models to research institutions with EV1s being found in the wild near universities often in states of disrepair.The EV1's discontinuation remains controversial, with electric car enthusiasts, environmental interest groups and former EV1 lessees accusing GM of self-sabotaging its electric car program to avoid potential losses in spare parts sales (sales forced by government regulations), while also blaming the oil industry for conspiring to keep electric cars off the road. During the discontinuation, film director Francis Ford Coppola hid his EV1 from General Motors and was ultimately able to keep it. As a result of GM taking the cars back as the leases ended and the subsequent destruction of the majority of EV1s, an intact and working EV1 is one of the rarest cars from the 1990s.
Tesla has issued a recall for approximately 1.8 million vehicles in the United States, primarily affecting 2021-2024 Model 3, Model S, Model X, and 2020-2024 Model Y cars. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) indicated that a software issue may prevent the detection of unlatched hoods, which could obstruct the driver’s view and increase the crash risk. This recall can be addressed with an over-the-air software update. Tesla's recall history includes a previous large recall affecting over 2 million vehicles.
The NHTSA has concluded its investigation into suspension failures affecting 75,000 Tesla vehicles, specifically the Model S (2015-2017) and Model X (2016-2017). It found 426 reports of defects known as 'whompy wheel', which arise from failing fore links. Although no recall will be issued, the NHTSA recommends Tesla expand its existing service bulletin to cover the vast majority of failures not addressed in a previous customer satisfaction campaign from 2017. The agency determined that affected vehicles could still be controlled despite the suspension failures.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) insists that over 50 million airbag inflators, produced by ARC Automotive and others, are dangerous and need recalling. These inflators, installed in about 49 million vehicles from 13 manufacturers, pose explosion risks causing shrapnel injuries. The NHTSA reports at least seven injuries and two fatalities related to inflator ruptures since 2009, with manufacturing issues identified as a likely cause. Despite some automakers contesting the recall, NHTSA maintains that all inflators are at some risk of failure upon deployment.
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