Topic: Automotive Safety

A message to Toyota

Administration takes a welcome, tough stand against the automaker Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has taken a high-profile stance in pushing automaker Toyota to fix problems with sticking accelerators. He said the companyÕs American subsidiary had been Òa little safety deaf,Ó adding that things changed after the National Highway Traffic ...
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Nissan Frontier Leads the Pack in Pickup Truck Rollover Tests

IIHS tests find shortcomings in safetyA test of five small 2010 model pickup trucks for rollover protection - the first ever by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) -- has yielded some disappointing results. The IIHS reports that the Nissan Frontier, also sold as the Suzuki Equator, is the only one ...
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Toyota Road to Recalls

Toyota Road to Recalls
This undated handout photo provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows an example of an unsecured driver-side floor mat trapping the accelerator pedal in a 2007 Lexus ES350. President Barack Obama's administration was without a federal highway safety chief for most of its first year and ...
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Feds Investigate Toyota Prius Brakes

Focus shifts to electrical systems Toyota, already reeling from several massive recalls, has a new problem. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says it has opened a formal investigation of the 2010 Toyota Prius. The goal is to learn whether the 37,000 vehicles suffer momentary loss of braking ...
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