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Almost 60.000 Toyota Avalon and Camry sedans from the 2016 model were recalled by Toyota Motor Sales, USA. Almost all of them were sold in the U.S., only about 1,500 were sold in Canada and Mexico. Toyota Corp. says that these cars have a system that activates or deactivates the front passenger air bags depending on the weight of the passenger. In some of the affected vehicles the system was improperly calibrated, so the front passenger air bags and knee air bags may not deploy.The company affirmed that it's still unclear how many times the condition has occurred or whether it has bee...
Tesla Motors announced it faces a shortage of U.S. tax credits for the Model 3, its first mass-market electric vehicle. It was said that, in the first week of orders, 325,000 people had placed refundable $1,000 deposits on the Model 3, a sedan starting at $35,000 with a range of 215 miles and up.As the company has struggled in the past to deliver products on time, some say that the announced crisis is an apparent one, seeing in this announcement a clever production strategy to squeeze more money out of the program for its buyers. Because of a limit on the number of Tesla cu...
Toyota has issued two recall campaigns, one for the 2016 Sienna and a second affecting the latest Rav4, Lexus ES 350 and RX 350. Toyota has discovered a problem, Brake Actuator assembly unit is defective on these models made for the US market. Thus, it has announced a recall affecting 4,170 examples of the 2016 RAV4, just 90 units of the 2016 Lexus RX 350, and 12,400 units of the 2016 ES 350.To fix the problem, Toyota will check out all the affected vehicles, and if the part number corresponds to the batch of bad ones, they will replace it. All known owners of the affected Toyota vehicles will...
Fiat Chrsyler Automobiles (FCA) recently announced the recall of 14,700 model year 2015-2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango SUVs because of the problems related to power steering and braking.In January 2016, a supplier had a machine failure that caused parts of be incorrectly manufactured. FCA opened an internal investigation after the supplier notified the automaker about a left front caliper that failed during a test. Additional tests showed the caliper housing falls below specification on torque fatigue and pressure fatigue tests.A cracked caliper can cause the risk of a collision or...
The modern auto industry races toward a driverless future and the companies developing autonomous cars are rushing the technology to market. But robotics and human interaction experts urgie automakers and regulators to pump the brakes.The main problem is that the production autonomous cars are brought to the market with limited technology demonstrations rather than rigorous testing in extreme operating conditions. Some 275 million miles of fatality-free autonomous car testing is needed to ensure the safe operation of these vehicles on public roads. The m...
