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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 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety lead a study of the U.S. cars headlights to check their conformity to the official standards. According to the results of this study headlights on a third of U.S. midsize car models do a poor job, and only one, the Toyota Prius V, performed well enough with an optional upgrade to earn a good rating from the IIHS.Better headlights could reduce U.S. accident deaths and improve safety. Within the ratings of vehicle headlights, the insurance group tested midsize cars to see how well they illuminate the road and whether they create excessive glare for...
Many of the autonomous driving enthusiasts are racing to bring self-driving cars to market. However there are no less engineering scientists who speak about the risks and the immaturity of the self-driving technologies at the moment. This is Missy Cummings' opinion, an engineering professor and human-factors expert at Duke University who argued self-driving cars are "absolutely not ready for widespread deployment." As a professor, Cummings is leading a National Science Foundation-funded study of how pedestrians interact with self-driving cars. As on...
Nearly all U.S. vehicles will be equiped with automatic emergency braking systems by September 2022. Major automakers plan to announce they have agreed on this decision. Adding the technology could prevent thousands of crashes a year. The final agreement on this decision includes automakers representing more than 99 percent of U.S. light vehicle sales. Among those joining the deal are Toyota Motor Corp., General Motors, Ford Motor Co., Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Honda Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG .Automatic emergency braking includes systems designed to prevent cra...
