This past week at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Toyota’s Lexus luxury brand gave the public its first look at Toyota’s advanced active safety research vehicle (AASRV). According to Toyota officials, the AASRV is designed to test and demonstrate a variety of automated vehicle safety technologies that Toyota could use in production…
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General Motors (GM) has recently issued a recall for nearly 69,000 of its vehicles due to the risk of the vehicles unexpectedly rolling away. This recall applies to almost 55,000 vehicles in the United States and another 14,000 in Mexico, Canada, and other parts of the globe. Included in the recall are the 2013 models…
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A worker at a West Texas oilfield was catastrophically injured when he was struck by a tanker. During the process of loading the tanker onto a trailer, the tanker rolled, striking Thomas Stewart and causing a serious head injury in the workplace accident. Thrity-eight-year old Stewart lived in Smithville but had, perhaps temporarily, relocated to…
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According to the Washington Post, Transocean, the driller whose floating Deepwater Horizon rig blew up in 2010, has agreed to settle civil and criminal claims with the federal government for $1.4 billion. The Deepwater Horizon exploded, burned and sank in April 2010. Eleven men were killed as a result. The Macondo well was owned by…
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According to an article published by Reuters, Hyundai Motor Company is recalling about 13,500 of its 2012 Veloster models. United States safety regulators have reported that the Veloster’s sunroof may shatter while the car is moving. As per the Nation Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the “panoramic” sunroof may have been weakened during assembly, which…
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Anywhere from three to thirty-three percent of fatal motor vehicle accidents that happen each year are connected to drowsy drivers. And, according to the results of a study completed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), drivers in Texas are more likely than drivers in any other state to fall asleep while driving….
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On Wednesday night when the House of Representatives passed the ‘fiscal cliff’ deal, they failed to vote on billions of dollars in aid for Hurricane Sandy victims. Superstorm Sandy killed at least 113 people in the United States and left millions of people without power after running up the East Coast in late October. The…
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According to the Associated Press, General Motors is recalling over 145,000 pickups trucks because the hoods can unexpectedly fly open and block the driver’s vision. The recall affects Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon midsize trucks from the 2010 through 2012 model years. The majority of the trucks were sold in North America. The United States…
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