For the second time this week, Investigators from Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have found nothing wrong with a Prius the driver blamed for suddenly accelerating.

Here’s something we haven’t heard yet: Could radiation from space be linked to Toyota’s sudden-acceleration issues? It sounds like science fiction, but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is taking it seriously. Befor...

Tales of runaway cars have a long history. The first sudden acceleration study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was done in 1978 and the agency had conducted more than 100 investigations involving 20 manuf...

Edmunds.com CEO Jeremy Anwyl argues in a Washington Post OpEd that the U.S. Transportation Department and its National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should lead in coordinating an effort to get to the bottom of the industry ...

The well-publicized runaway 2008 Toyota Prius and its driver that hit the news last week have come under intense scrutiny. Later today, both the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Toyota will announce they could not ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that overall traffic fatalities  at the end of 2009 reached the lowest level since 1954, declining for the 15th consecutive quarter. The projected data puts the hig...

Hybrid, Government/Legal, Recalls, Hatchback, Toyota A joint investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Toyota into the highly publicized incident last week of a runaway 2008 Toyota Prius n...

Confirming the congressional memo we shared yesterday questioning the story of runaway Prius driver Jim Sikes, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) officials say "...

It seems the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking for more power to regulate the automotive industry. The head of the agency said to a U.S. House panel yesterday that NHTSA needs to regulate “in a way that allow...

Former National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief and longtime auto-safety advocate Joan Claybrook called for a doubling of the agency's investigational budget in order to equip NHTSA to more effectively police an increas...

A House panel plans to investigate the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's oversight of auto industry ...

Recent incidents with 2004-2009 model year Toyota Prius hybrids have shed new light into the recall process of nearly 6 million Toyota and Lexus cars in the U.S. Police investigators, Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety A...

Toyota has alerted dealers in 30 additional states that it is conducting a “Special Service Campaign” over the same 2000-2003 Tundra rust issue that caused the automaker and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to issue a ...

While Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are investigating the car and the incident, the real problem for Toyota is that this incident raises new questions about the company.

Mitsubishi has issued a recall for 56,113 Endeavor vehicles from the 2004 model year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. These include vehicles originally sold or currently registered in Connecticut, De...

Mitsubishi has issued a recall of 2,307 Galant vehicles from the 2010 model year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminstration. The recall is due to insufficient plating on the automatic transmission oil cooler pip...

Earlier this week, a handful of complaints — the number is now up to around 60 — were filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about cars already repaired under the two major Toyota recalls. This brought up a...

TORRANCE, Calif., March 4, 2010 – Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., has received verifiable information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) about some vehicles whose owners have reported...

Reader traffic on AutoObserver soared this past week with Toyota stories being the most read. An Edmunds.com analysis of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) data bases that illustrated Toyota's lead in uni...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the US has received more than 60 complaints about unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles after they have been serviced as a part of their recalls. The NHTSA’s David ...