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The Volkswagen emissions saga continues here in the Golden State. A second settlement has been reached in federal court between California, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Justice, and Volkswagen. In 2013, a team from West Virginia University discovered that Volkswagen had installed software in some of its vehicles that cheated emissions […]

If you own a Honda Odyssey, you should be aware of an important safety recall involving the second-row seat. Over 634,000 minivans are affected by this issue, which Honda has known about for years but only recently reported to federal regulators. The second-row seat slides forward to allow easier access to the third-row seat. However, […]

When no obvious reason can be attributed to a car crash, investigators are likely to chalk it up to driver error. That sometimes makes it harder to demonstrate that another cause was really at work. A lot of the accidents that were actually caused by the GM ignition switch were initially blamed on driver error. […]

Brooke Melton was like any other car owner on the road. She had some car troubles every so often, but she stayed safe while driving and never drove distracted. Unfortunately, her safe driving couldn’t avoid a fatal problem with her 2005 Chevy Cobalt. Three days after the first time her car stalled while driving, it […]

With Donald Trump as the country’s new president and a Republican-majority Congress, major changes are anticipated in many federal agencies. One likely target is a relative newcomer on the scene, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB was created early in President Obama’s administration in response to the 2008 crisis in the financial and […]