The rapid advance of self-driving or autonomous cars reached an important milestone last month. For the first time, Google officials have publicly acknowledged that one of its autonomous vehicles was at least partly to blame for causing a wreck. The incident between a Google self-driving Lexus RX450h and a municipal bus illustrates how our state

The massive recall of 28 million defective Takata airbags has taken on new urgency with the tragic death of 17-year-old Huma Hanif last week. Hanif bled to death when the airbag in her 2002 Honda Civic deployed improperly sending shrapnel into her neck following a minor rear-end collision on a suburban Houston road. In an

The recently enacted Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act provides incremental improvements in the way U.S. motorists are notified about vehicle and tire safety defects, but the legislation stops far short of the kind of fixes necessary to adequately inform consumers of the dangers they face on the road. Thanks to tire industry lobby, the

Disturbing reports continue to surface regarding defective Takata airbags found in more than 20 million U.S. autos and blamed for at least 10 traffic deaths. Some of the latest developments include disclosures that Takata’s own engineers altered data discarded evidence of safety problems as much as 16 years before the safety concerns and injury reports