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The U.S. government and private auto-safety raters made evident this week how tougher standards are moving beyond crash tests that just measure passenger protection. Now, they're evaluating systems that can avoid accidents altogether.The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said Thursday that 48 vehicles earned its highest rating of "Top Safety Cars." Toyota, Honda and Subaru are the winners, with 23 combined. Volkswagen and its luxury brand, Audi, had seven winners. Volvo, Hyundai and Mazda each had multiple winners. The Chrysler 200 was the only domestic car to earn the ...
US auto safety regulators fined Fiat Chrysler Automobiles $70 million for failing to report key safety data to regulators on death and injury claims linked to their vehicles.The penalty is an amendment to an earlier $105 million fine on Fiat Chrysler over its poor handling of auto recalls, taking the total in the enforcement case to $175 million, said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.Fiat Chrysler acknowledged earlier this fall that it failed to provide early warning data to regulators over a period of several years. That data - which includes deaths, injuries, warranty ...
Takata Corp. handled their air bag crisis is the very reason why they lost one of their biggest investors, Sawakami Asset Management. He was one of the automotive supplier, 12th largest shareholder, but the firm lost faith in Takata after the management refused to explain what was happening during the crisis. “We could not help feeling the management is not trustworthy,” fund manager Takahiro Kusakari said in an interview from his office in Tokyo. “We felt Takata had a ‘we are needed and our products are needed, so the business will come back and the situation won&...
The Quebec government is ready to spend more than $420 million in 2020 just to promote and to sell hundred thousand units of electric and hybrid vehicles annually. “Transportation electrification represents a way for Quebec to set itself apart by promoting important values such as respect for the environment, collaboration and knowledge as well as the desire to enhance the public’s prosperity and well-being,” the province’s Ministry of Transport says in Propelling Quebec Forward with Electricity, a document that lays out the program.As they already planned the char...
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles misinformed US auto safety controllers about recall announcements to the owners of Fiat cars.A transportation secretary is engaged to monitor the recall of millions of Fiat Chrysler vehicles. Takata's air bag inflators can burst up into the passenger compartment. Such air bags led to eight deaths and they had to recall tens of millions of cars, including 4 million made by Fiat Chrysler.Gordon Trowbridge, a spokesman for NHTSA, said Slater, head of Transportation Department, had disclosed his representation of Takata, but the safety administration and Fiat Chr...
