Stories about: safety

Honda Expands Takata Airbag Recall Campaign

8 Dec 2014, 18:59 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Safety recalls have been a big problem for automakers this year, especially in the United States. General Motors may be in the limelight for its 80-strong recall tally this year, but Japanese brands...

Watch the 2015 Volvo XC90 Crash Into a Ditch

7 Dec 2014, 08:03 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / With the second-generation, the XC90 got a whole lot more premium and techy than ever before. Being a Swede, the mid-size sport utility vehicle is very safe, which is only natural if you consider th...

Grand Theft Auto V Getting Banned in Australia Because of Feminism Makes Me Angry

5 Dec 2014, 18:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Grand Theft Auto was controversial from its very first incarnation and countries like Britain, Germany, France and Brazil banned it for its gratuitous violence. Fast forward to December 2014 and thi...

2015 Ford Mustang Recalled, 2014 Ford Transit Connect Van and GT Supercar As Well

4 Dec 2014, 14:49 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Oh my! While we were laughing at GM’s 79th recall campaign this year, the Blue Oval just announced two new operations, as well as an expansion of the shady Takata airbags recall. Let’s s...

Ram Pickup Truck Recalled, 149,150 Older Examples Affected

4 Dec 2014, 09:05 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Chrysler Group recently announced it’s recalling heaps of pickup trucks. According to the American manufacturer, the voluntary call back covers 149,150, all of them located in the United S...

GM Announces 79th Recall Campaign This Year, 316,356 Vehicles Affected

3 Dec 2014, 14:39 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / St Nicholas Day and Christmas may be just around the corner, yet the General Motors recall saga hasn’t come to an end yet. The 79th call back campaign this year covers a lot of older-model SUV...

Land Rover Discovery Sport Gets Tested by Euro NCAP, Bestowed With 5 Stars

3 Dec 2014, 13:47 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Underpinned by the LR-MS platform, the all-new compact sport utility vehicle from Land Rover is what the Freelander / LR2 should’ve been from the beginning. Before the first model of the Disco...

Distracted Driving Could Be Solved Using a Signal Jammer

3 Dec 2014, 13:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Car crashes have multiplied since about 20 years ago and that’s not only because there are more vehicles on the roads, but also because of technology. Sounds odd but it’s true and we sho...

Dacia Logan MCV Awarded 3 Stars by the Euro NCAP Over Poor Protection

3 Dec 2014, 11:26 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Unveiled at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, the station wagon version of the Logan is like any other Dacia model around - cheap, plasticky and spacious, with a 12-year-old B0 platform and second generat...

Euro NCAP Crash Tested the 2015 Ford Mondeo Wagon, Awards it 5 Stars

3 Dec 2014, 10:46 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / With European deliveries of the Mk V Ford Mondeo just around the corner, the peeps from Euro NCAP decided to butcher a few units of the model in order to find out how safe it is in various crash sce...

Lexus NX Is Worthy of 5 Euro NCAP Stars Video]

3 Dec 2014, 09:56 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / All those sharp folds, creases and tough looking surfaces could turn you into thinking the new Lexus NX compact crossover is a deathtrap, just like the boxy cars of the past. Well, you’re forg...

Formula 1 Inspired Wheelchair Adds Style to Functionality

27 Nov 2014, 17:02 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Every other wheeled vehicle out there is evolving these days, yet someone must have forgotten about the wheelchair, which still looks like a dull medical accessory. This British kickstarter company ...

Toyota Camry Saves Life of Man Falling 11 Stories

27 Nov 2014, 15:32 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota has some of the safest vehicles out there on the market and is constantly upgrading its active and passive systems to make sure passengers and pedestrians will survive when something bad happ...

Uber App Found to Collect User Data Without Permission

27 Nov 2014, 15:06 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Uber managed to create quite some stir in many countries, infuriating taxi drivers with some of their cheaper car sharing alternatives coming from unlicensed drivers and all that. It seems there&rsq...

Toyota Vehicle-Infrastructure System Available in 2015

27 Nov 2014, 10:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Driving a car appears to be a very complicated thing these days with so much traffic and pedestrians roaming around. Reason why cars are getting more complex and will handle more of the driver&rsquo...

Lexus Safety System Gets Upgraded for 2015

26 Nov 2014, 12:17 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As Toyota is rolling in some new technology next year, most of it will also reach its Lexus luxury division. There’s no word of the new LED Array AHS going for the big L (although we’re ...

Toyota Introducing Next-Generation LED Array Headlights in 2015

26 Nov 2014, 10:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Nearly 70 percent of accidents involving pedestrians happen at night, in poor visibility, when drivers fail to notice people near the road or even on the road. Many automakers have started to come u...

NHTSA Ends Investigation Into Hundreds of Thousands of Ford and GM Vehicles