Most electronic systems that take on some driving tasks for humans don’t adequately make sure drivers are paying attention, and they don’t issue strong enough warnings to make drivers behave.

Ford is recalling nearly 383,000 SUVs in the U.S. because the touch screens may not display a camera image when backing up.

Most small SUVs flunked the latest frontal crash tests done by the insurance industry, but oddly enough, they’re just as safe as they were before.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Consumer Reports on Thursday published their annual list of the safest affordable vehicles for teenage drivers for 2022.

Two organizations that influence many Americans’ automobile buying decisions will begin rating vehicles on how well they track behavior of motorists who use partially automated driver-assist systems.

Two key groups that offer automobile safety ratings have yanked their top endorsements from some Tesla vehicles because the company has stopped using radar on its safety systems.

DETROIT – It’s been two years since a drunk driver took the lives of a Metro Detroit family. All five in the vehicle, Issam Abbas, 42, Rima Abbas, 38, Ali Abbas, 14, Isabella Abbas, 13, and Giselle Abbas, 7, died. “The beautiful, young Abbas family was stolen from us by a drunk driver who never should have been behind the wheel of a car. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released a study in July 2020 which found that more than 9,400 drunk driving deaths could be prevented each year when drunk driving prevention technology is made standard on every new car. Also see: Fund established in honor of Dearborn family killed in drunk driving crashLegislation Introduced Calling for Drunk Driving Safety & Technology Standards

DETROIT Safety features such as automatic emergency braking and forward collision warnings could prevent more than 40% of crashes in which semis rear-end other vehicles, a new study has found. This is an important countermeasure to that.Trucks with collision warning systems reduced rear crashes by 44%, while automatic emergency braking cut rear crashes by 41%, the study found. For automatic emergency braking, the figure was 12%. In October of 2015, NHTSA began the regulatory process to evaluate forward collision warning and automatic braking for heavy trucks. Some just warn the driver of hazards, while more sophisticated emergency braking systems will actually brake the truck.

The group says that while autonomous vehicles eventually will identify hazards and react faster than humans, and they wont become distracted or drive drunk, stopping the rest of the crashes will be a lot harder. We're still going to see some issues even if autonomous vehicles might react more quickly than humans do. Autonomous vehicles need to not only perceive the world around them perfectly, they need to respond to what's around them as well, she said. Just how many crashes are prevented depends a lot on how autonomous vehicles are programmed, Cicchino said. Even fewer crashes will be prevented while self-driving vehicles are mixed with human driven cars, she said.

CNN image(CNN) - The Tesla Model 3 earned the coveted Top Safety Pick Award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Institute also announced that the Hyundai Nexo had become the first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle to earn the award. The Institute also rates cars for headlight performance and for the amount and type of safety technology each model offers. The Institute tested the Tesla Model S, Tesla's larger, more expensive sedan, in 2017. NHTSA objected to that claim, saying that crash test results can only be compared to vehicles of similar size and weight.