Regulation & Safety
On May 8, an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi was struck by an electric scooter while turning at low speed at a San Francisco intersection, the company said last week.
The panel found President Donald Trump had wrongfully invoked an emergency law to justify reciprocal global tariffs, which don't include automotive imports.
NHTSA said a software error in several Ford vehicles may cause the rearview camera image to delay, freeze, or not display.
Toyota is recalling 443,444 Tundra pickups in U.S. because of failing reverse lamps.
The decision to repeal waivers for the state automobile programs is a win for automakers and dealerships, who had lobbied heavily against the rules.
The Senate plans to vote this week to bar California’s landmark plan to end the sale of gasoline-only vehicles by 2035 that has been adopted by 11 other states.
The prior administration had “illegally used CAFE standards as a backdoor electric vehicle mandate — driving the price of cars up,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement.
Two U.S. recalls emerged from Google’s self-driving vehicle affiliate Waymo and legacy automaker Ford. Guess which one got more news coverage?
The goals of CARB’s ACC II regulations — 35 percent zero-emission vehicle penetration in model year 2026, 43 percent a year later and so on until 100 percent in 2035 — can’t be reached.
The recall covers 2022-24 Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs.
