
High-tech features and advanced driver assistance systems are becoming more readily available, and they have the potential to reduce the rates of crashes, fatalities and injuries on the nation’s roadways.
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The safety compliance recall covers 605 2016 model-year vehicles that need the brake hydraulic control unit replaced.
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In the light-duty van market, safety has become a priority for fleet buyers and manufacturers.
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Enhanced transitional stability technology, available on the 2015 model-year Focus, can help deliver better handling in highly dynamic driving maneuvers.
Read More →Electronic stability control will become mandatory for all vehicles imported to New Zealand to increase safety on the country's roadways, a government official announced.
Read More →WASHINGTON – Electronic stability control technology (ESC) is saving an increasing number of lives each year, according to a three-year study released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The NHTSA study estimates that ESC saved 2,202 lives from 2008 to 2010 alone.
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA - The Highway Loss Data Institute found it typically takes an average of 30 years for an advanced safety feature introduced in luxury cars to become a feature on 95% of the vehicles on the road.
Read More →DEARBORN, MI - Ford safety engineers in the U.S. and Germany crash tested the new 2012 Ford Focus more than 12,000 times in real and virtual worlds to prove out new technologies designed to protect occupants in crashes, Ford Motor Co. said.
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA - The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has given Top Safety Pick awards to the 2011 Cadillac CTS and Infiniti M37/M56, after the vehicles performed exceptionally well in roof strength tests that assess how well vehicles would protect people in rollover crashes.
Read More →WASHINGTON - Antilock brake systems (ABS) have reduced the overall crash rates of passengers cars by 6 percent and light trucks by 8 percent, according to a new report released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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