Here’s something we haven’t heard yet: Could radiation from space be linked to Toyota’s sudden-acceleration issues? It sounds like science fiction, but the National Highway Traffic Safety ...

Volkswagen's emissions-control scandal is starting to look like a combination of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and one of the world's biggest product-liability cases. Based on VW's stock ...

14 Jun 2011, 13:18 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu // Toyota won't face the first trial in federal court over sudden-acceleration problems in its vehicles until February 2013, according to a judge ruling late ...

So-called "sudden acceleration" has floated around the automotive world since it burst onto the scene in 1986. Now the Toyota Prius has become the latest vehicle in which the syndrome is alleged. But ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said yesterday that, after a long period of skepticism, it would take a "fresh look" at the possibility that America's epidemic of dangerous ...

LOS ANGELES — The nation’s top auto-safety regulator is ill-equipped to detect problems with high-tech electronics commonplace in today’s cars, a new government study concludes. Calling such ...

Federal regulators in 2007 asked Toyota Motor Corp. to consider installing software to prevent sudden acceleration in its vehicles after receiving complaints that vehicles could race out of control, ...

Incidents such as this have occurred in almost every make and model vehicle. Driver error is most often blamed for accidents. But the co-author of a book on the ...

Tesla is the subject of a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that its Model X and Model S vehicles are prone to sudden, unintended acceleration (SUA). A number of owners are claiming that their ...