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DETROIT — The U.S. government’s road safety agency says it has received allegations that defective Goodyear motor home tires caused crashes that killed or injured 95 people during the past two decades. The allegations were revealed in an information-seeking letter dated Tuesday that was sent to Goodyear by the National …

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. received failure claims over a tire that was installed on thousands of RVs and is linked to at least nine deaths, dozens of injuries, and hundreds of crashes as early as 1996, the first year it was manufactured and installed on motorhomes, according to court documents obtained …

A woman walking her bike across an Arizona street was hit and killed by a driverless car last week. The car was supposed to be equipped with the latest in self-driving technology and a supervising safety driver as a backup if something went wrong. As a result, Uber and other companies have …

In October 2003, Billy Wayne Woods and his family packed into a luxury $181,000 motorhome for a fun getaway to Florida. Call it a textbook American vacation: Their destination was Disney World, and with his wife, Shirley, his son and daughter-in law and two grandchildren in tow, Woods’ trip would …

The deadly collision between an Uber autonomous vehicle and a pedestrian near Phoenix is bringing calls for tougher self-driving regulations, but advocates for a hands-off approach say big changes aren’t needed. Police in Tempe, Arizona, say the female pedestrian walked in front of the Uber SUV in the dark of …

Driverless cars need to pass an acceptable set of standardized tests before they hit the road, said Mary Cummings, a professor in the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering and director of Humans and Autonomy Laboratory and Duke Robotics. “You would never go to an airport and fly in an airplane with …

Center for Auto Safety Executive Director Jason Levine discusses a fatal driverless Uber crash on NBC Nightly News. 

Click here to watch the full clip from CNN. 

The Remington Walden lawsuit award of $40 million will stand as the Georgia Supreme Court ruled 9-0 against Fiat Chrysler’s motion to overturn the judgment. Four-year-old Remington burned to death in 2012 while riding in a booster seat in the back of a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee that was stopped …

People riding in self-driving cars that crash could find themselves unable to hold the manufacturer accountable if legislation currently pending on Capitol Hill is passed, consumer advocates warn. They caution that the legislation under consideration in the Senate benefits big tech and car companies at the expense of average Americans. …