The NHTSA Investigates Can-Am Fire Reports
11 Aug 2014, 15:33 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It looks like there is something wrong with certain Can-Am Spyder models, as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is said to investigate reports of new fires. This has happened...
Rider Ignores the Stop Sign, Lives to Regret This Bitterly
11 Aug 2014, 14:36 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Stop signs are usually put in place for an extremely good reason, and I guess you’ll all agree that making it home without being crashed into is such a reason. Problem is that some motorists o...
Reckless High-Speed Overtaking Doesn't End Well
10 Aug 2014, 08:48 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Riding a motorcycle is definitely not the safest thing one can do, since there’s virtually no barrier between the rider and the multiple obstacles which may cross his or her road, even on a ca...
Hyundai to Pay $17.35 Million Over Delayed Reporting of Hyundai Genesis Brake Fault
8 Aug 2014, 15:02 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After a rigorous investigation conduced by the NHTSA, Hyundai has been fined $17.35 million, the maximum penalty for a related series of violations until October 1st, 2013, when the fine was increas...
140k Owners of Recalled GM Vehicles Can't Be Contacted by the Automaker
8 Aug 2014, 12:32 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / As if the 30 million sub-standard vehicles weren't enough of a handful for General Motors, the company has recently told the NHTSA a very worrying thing: close to 140,000 owners of cars called ...
Watch and Learn: Eyes on the Road Lest You Crash Like a Moron
5 Aug 2014, 13:54 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Not paying enough attention to the road is one of the shortest ways to crash, even when it comes to the most experienced riders in the least dangerous situations. While I couldn’t tell how goo...
Fiat 500 Recalled in Australia Over Wiring Mess-Up
4 Aug 2014, 17:05 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In the United States, recalls are announced by an agency called the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In the Land Down Under, the equivalent to that is the ACCC, which has informed tha...
Ultra-Scary High-Speed Crash, Rider Survives with a Broken Leg
4 Aug 2014, 14:50 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / I’m not even sure that when writing anything about this video, “lane splitting” should be mentioned. In my books, this has nothing to do with splitting lanes or filtering ahead thr...
Senator Proposes Life Sentence for Execs that Delay Auto Recalls Resulting in Deaths
4 Aug 2014, 14:20 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Claire McCaskill. Automotive bigwigs should tremble with fear when they hear this Senator's name 'cause she's the lady that recently introduced the Motor Vehicle and Highway Safety En...
New Bus Rollover Standard Proposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation
4 Aug 2014, 11:33 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In an attempt to harmonize European bus safety standards with the ones applied in the United States, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is currently cooking up new rules that will im...
GM Milford Proving Ground Celebrates Its 90th Anniversary
1 Aug 2014, 15:49 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / When General Motors acquired the 2,300 acres of land in Michigan for the Milford Proving Ground back in 1923, nobody understood the importance of the industry's first dedicated automobile testi...
GM Targeted Yet Again By Collective Lawsuit
1 Aug 2014, 11:47 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After 60 recalls and almost 30 million faulty vehicles, General Motors finds itself at the firing end of a barrel of a gun, with numerous victims intending lawsuits for accidents linked to sub-stan...
Watch and Learn: Yellow Lines Don't Forgive BMW S1000RR
30 Jul 2014, 14:40 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / If anything, there’s one thing all riders can be 100% sure: the yellow lines seldom forgive anyone. This is the lesson a BMW S1000RR rider learned the hard way, during an outing on a twisty ro...
IIHS Tests Show Mazda5 Is Unsafe in a Crash
30 Jul 2014, 14:05 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The American Insurance Institute of Highway Safety recently conducted crash tests on several smaller cars at their Arlington center in Vancouver, reporting mixed results. After being subjected to th...
2014 Fiat 500L Fails IIHS Crash Test
30 Jul 2014, 12:24 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Fiat 500L promised to bring all the fun of a regular 500 with the practicality of a bigger car. Is sounded like the perfect formula, but since it went on sale last year, several chinks have been...
IIHS Top Safety Pick+ Awarded to 2014 Chevrolet Volt
30 Jul 2014, 11:39 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / That + is what makes the difference between a really safe car and an average one based on the IIHS' crash test procedures. Fitted with the available Forward Collision Alert system, the 2014 Che...
Attempt to Run the Red Light Turns into Dumb, Funny Crash
29 Jul 2014, 14:38 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Running the red light is one thing we unfortunately get to see quite often, especially in dash cam videos from regions of the world where road discipline is… not that strong, to avoid using h...
Fair Weather, Straight Road, Most Bizarre Bike Crash Out of the Blue
28 Jul 2014, 15:10 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The video below serves as the perfect proof that when people who cannot ride in a group are involved, anything can happen anywhere, anyhow, anyway. Now, the fact that these folks are riding choppers...
Honda Fireblade Crashing Hard into Dacia Logan MCV
25 Jul 2014, 14:23 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Sometimes all it takes for a nasty crash to occur is a small mistake from a road user and a dash of bad luck, but when two people meet on the same road in disregard of basic safety recommendations, ...
California Highway Patrol Takes Down Lane-Splitting Guidelines from Own Website
24 Jul 2014, 12:56 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It looks like lane splitting is still a tad controversial in California, as the local Highway Patrol was forced to drop the specific guidelines from its own website after a citizen filed a complaint...