Repair Rights: New NHTSA guidelines promote balance between security and third-party access
Toronto, Ontario — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has new guidelines promoting the need to balance the needs of cybersecurity and third-party access, in light of the right to repair movement and multiple cases of vehicles being stolen or compromised due to inadequate security systems. Effectively an update of its 2016 predecessor, “Cybersecurity Best […]
Look, No Eyes: Ford and GM petition NHTSA for non-transparent glass in autonomous vehicles
Toronto, Ontario – Ford and General Motors are seeking to deploy experimental autonomous vehicles (AVs) on American roads in the next two years. These vehicles could potentially lack the usual manual controls present in consumer cars, omitting windshield wipers, rear-view mirrors and, in one case, transparent windshield glass. A petition by the two OEMs aims […]
Mood Lighting: Subaru recalls 190,000 2016-2019 Imprezas for poor headlight performance
Toronto, Ontario — Subaru specialists beware, a recall has been launched in the U.S. to replace the headlights in nearly 190,000 Subaru Impreza vehicles, from the model years of 2016 to 2019, due to poor performance. This recall follows years of investigating on the part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), who first […]
Safer and Sounder: Newer car designs reduce collision female fatalities to 2.5 percent, says NHTSA study
Toronto, Ontario – A new NHTSA report suggests that improvements in vehicle safety standards and safety equipment has reduced the disparity between female and male fatalities during collisions from 18.3 percent to 6.3 percent, comparing model years 1960-2009 to 2010-2020. Notably, vehicles with model years 2015-2020 had the lowest difference at 2.9 percent. According to […]
Sinking Feeling: NHTSA recalls 17 years of Ferraris for hydraulic leakage
Toronto, Ontario – A brake failure has been identified in Ferrari vehicles built since 2005, leading to over 23,000 Ferraris being recalled by the NHTSA. “These vehicles are equipped with a braking system that could potentially leak brake fluid, which may lead to partial or total loss of braking capability,” details the NHTSA recall. “Upon […]
EV/AV Report: July 25, 2022
Toronto, Ontario — In this week’s electric and autonomous vehicles report, Tesla hits a self-driving milestone after settling in a German lawsuit, Ford and Baidu unveil autonomous cars without steering wheels and a Deloitte report suggests that tomorrow’s cars are vulnerable to hacking attacks – who knew? Clocked In Tesla celebrates 35 million miles driven […]
Market Dominance: 81 percent of ADAS crashes are from Teslas, says NHTSA investigation
Toronto, Ontario – A recent fatal collision involving a Tesla vehicle and a motorcyclist has invigorated ongoing investigations by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, with Teslas now representing 81 percent of all ADAS-related collisions in the United States. According to Bloomberg, this is the 18th fatal crash in an ongoing NHTSA investigation in ADAS […]
Middle Ground: NHTSA limiting but not standardizing EV warning noises
Toronto, Ontario — The NHTSA is nixing a proposal allowing drivers to choose the warning sounds emitted by their electric vehicles (EVs), in a compromise between consumer choice and pedestrian safety concerns. This comes after negotiations between the NHTSA and automotive companies, who both agree that some kind of artificial noise output for electrified vehicles […]
Precious Cargo: NHTSA expands child seat testing to include side impact ‘t-bone’ test
Washington, D.C. — The U.S.’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration granted final approval on Monday to a set of updates to testing requirements for child safety seats which introduced a 48 km/h side impact “t-bone” test to the list of requirements. “Side-impact collisions cause serious injuries and deaths in young children each year,” said NHTSA […]
Daunting Data: Tesla makes up for nearly 70 percent of U.S. ADAS-related crashes, NHTSA says
Toronto, Ontario — The first-ever mandated release of advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) crash data took place on Wednesday, revealing that 273 crashes involving ADAS have been linked to Tesla since July of 2021—more than any other automaker. More than 500 total crash reports from automakers and tech companies were submitted to the National Highway Traffic […]
