News in category: On The Road

With more travelers taking to motorcycles than in previous years, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds that antilock brakes save lives.

General Motors will install a brake override system in all newly manufactured vehicles, even though the auto maker has not had a problem with unintended acceleration like Toyota.

Toyota is facing a $16.4 million civil fine for withholding information about the sticky pedal problem from U.S. regulators for four months, while it continued selling cars.

The FAA is encouraging airline pilots on antidepression medication to come forward instead of keeping their drug use a secret. They will be given a special medical certificate to fly as long as they are not experiencing side effects.

The death toll from runaway accelerating Toyotas is now at 102, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

The Celebrity Mercury returns to port one day early because of another outbreak of norovirus, the third outbreak on the same ship.

Toyota and the Department of Transportation engineers have been unable to replicate the conditions that caused a Prius to runaway on a San Diego freeway last Monday. Now the focus is on the Prius' owner.

Another runaway Toyota, this time a Camry, is reported by a Florida couple that led to a crash. They are suing Toyota and the dealership which had allegedly "fixed" the vehicle.

Two studies released this week find an increasing number of spinal injuries and amputations among young people who ride an all-terrain vehicle.

An out-of-control Prius was racing at 94 mph when a CHP officer on loudspeaker helped the driver get control of the vehicle. No one was hurt. The Prius was part of a recall last November.

When Rhonda Smith spoke to lawmakers last week about her Toyota that nearly took her life in October 2006, many didn't believe her story. Now she answers her critics with assurances there was nothing in it for her to testify. She just wants dangerous Toyotas off the road.

Two women in the United Kingdom refuse a full body scan and are barred from boarding a plane. Monday expect upward of 490 full body scans to be found in U.S. airports to be deployed on a random basis.

Massive waves hit a cruise ship in the Mediterranean north of Barcelona at the end of a 12-day cruise. Two people lost their lives when windows smashed and furniture went flying.

Toyota repeated assertions of last week's public airing - that electronics do not play a part in sudden acceleration. One VP even went so far as to suggest that driver error might be causing the uncontrolled acceleration crashes that has led to a massive recall worldwide of Toyotas.

The Toyota defense may be used to reopen the case of a runaway Toyota Camry that resulted in the deaths of three people and an eight year prison term for the driver, convicted of vehicular manslaughter.