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Articles on Auto Defects:
History of Auto Defect Litigation -- In 1916, Donald MacPherson was driving his Buick Roundabout when the wooden spokes on one of his wheels crumbled. Donald's car collapsed ...
Car Seat Back Testing Gets an F -- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) standards for car seat backs have not changed since 1967!
Tire Defects -- The Ford/Firestone tire recall of August 2000 can be documented as the time when the problem of defective tires reached a tipping point ...
Defective Seat Belts -- Various defective vehicle designs have been improved upon through court decisions. Unfortunately ...
Roof Crush -- Many auto defects have been corrected, albeit slowly, through decades of injuries and lawsuits. Luckily ...
The Dangers of Defective Car Seatbacks Exposed -- Over the past decade, the media has widely covered instances of fuel system, airbag and seatbelt defects, but there is another dangerous defect that has not reached the public's attention ...
The Slow Development of Air Bags as a Safety Standard -- A 19-year-old college student from New Hampshire was killed in an vehicle accident ...
Electronic Stability Control Created to Increase Safety of Rollover-Prone Vehicles -- As more and more people bought and drove SUVs, it became very clear that the SUV design was unstable and caused rollover accidents ...
Car Seats Among Most Widespread of Auto Defects -- Until only recently, the NHTSA regulations regarding vehicle seats and seat backs have been incredibly lax ...
Current Auto Product Defects
Toyota Sudden Unintended Acceleration -- Since 1999, there have been at least 2,262 reports by Toyota and Lexus owners of sudden unintended acceleration in their vehicle under a variety of circumstances. Now known as SUA amongst the National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA), courts, Safety Research & Strategies and media sources, instances of sudden unintended acceleration has resulted in 815 crashes, 341 injuries and 19 deaths where SUA potentially played a role ...
Toyota Recalls Almost 4 Million Vehicles For Floor Mat Entrapment -- Toyota Motor Corp. will recall almost 4 million of its vehicles sold in the country, after concerns were raised that floor mats could cause gas pedals to become stuck, leading to uncontrollable acceleration ...
Consumer Complaints About Sudden Unintended Acceleration (SUA) in Toyotas -- The number of injuries resulting from Toyota sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) incidents, organized by vehicle model, reported from 1999 to January of 2010 are as follows ...
Sudden Unintended Acceleration Claims Lives -- In 2009, California Highway Patrol officer, Mark Saylor, and his wife, daughter and brother-in-law died in a car accident. Mark was driving a 2009 Lexus ES 350 -- loaned from Bob Baker Lexus of El Cajon, CA -- at the end of Highway 125 when the vehicle did not respond to pressure he placed on the break. The Lexus collided with a Ford Explorer and continued accelerating through a T intersection until it struck an embankment, tumbled into a riverbed and burst into flames ...
Toyota Sudden Unintended Acceleration Problem is Reminiscent of Ford Explorer Defects -- In 2009, California Highway Patrol officer, Mark Saylor, and his wife, daughter and brother-in-law died in a car accident. Mark was driving a 2009 Lexus ES 350 -- loaned from Bob Baker Lexus of El Cajon, CA -- at the end of Highway 125 when the vehicle did not respond to pressure he placed on the break. The Lexus collided with a Ford Explorer and continued accelerating through a T intersection until it struck an embankment, tumbled into a riverbed and burst into flames ...
Toyota Lexus Hybrid Fuel Leaks -- Toyota has issued yet another recall. This time it involves their Lexus brand line of cars. The Lexus 2010-model HS 250h luxury hybrid sedans are being recalled due to fuel leaks in rear-end collisions. While no known injuries or fatalities have been reported due to the leaks, the cars recently failed random testing conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and have been deemed unsafe to drive ...
Hyundai Recalls Defective Cars -- Auto defects have run rampant this year with numerous top manufacturers recalling their vehicles, and it seems Hyundai has reluctantly joined the 2010 recall club. Hyundai, a major auto manufacturer based out of South Korea, has recently recalled their Sonata sedans due to a steering-related product defect. The implications of the auto defect are disastrous. NHTSA Spurs Mass Auto Defect Recal
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