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Toyota Fined $16.4 Million for Gas Pedal Defect
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has fined Toyota $16.4 million for failing to promptly notify car owners of a defect that caused some vehicles to accelerate uncontrollably, The Washington Post reports. By law, automakers must notify NHTSA within five days of identifying a safety defect. Toyota issued its recall for "sticky pedals" in 2.3 million vehicles in January, but it knew of the flaw in September, according to company documents. "We now have proof that Toyota failed to live up to its legal obligations," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement ...
Are Today's Cars Too Smart for Their Own Good?
By David Knowles - AOL News(March 4) -- Today's cars are technical wonders largely controlled by complex computer systems. But as Toyota struggles to identify the cause of the sudden acceleration problems that are believed to have contributed to the deaths of dozens of people, some are wondering whether all that technology is really such a good thing. This week, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood addressed a Senate Commerce Committee hearing trying to determine how the government can do a better job identifying safety risks in cars. "We're looking at the possibility of recommending the brake override system in all ...
Amid Toyota Crisis, LaHood Rolls Along
By Russell Berman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 3) -- Ray LaHood was jabbing the air with his finger, insisting to a roomful of lawmakers that, as Toyota recalled more and more flawed cars from the U.S. market, his department wasn't asleep at the switch. "We haven't been sitting around on our hands," the U.S. transportation secretary told Congress. "When people complain, we investigate." Alex Wong, Getty Images U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood waits for the beginning of a Senate hearing on the Toyota recalls Tuesday in Washington, D.C. To hear LaHood's words and the intensity in his voice, it would be easy to ...
Administration Considers Federal Ban on Texting While Driving
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyTransportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he would support legislation to withhold federal funds from states that permit cellphone texting while driving. LaHood said he would like to see laws that punish states that allow the practice and also reward those that ban it, The Wall Street Journal reported. Congress is considering bills that would do both. Providing both penalties and incentives has been effective in getting states to put in place drunken-driving laws, LaHood told the paper. LaHood has said he favors a national ban on texting while driving but said he needed to study how to ...
Oval Office Order: No Driving While Intexticated
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyHey, you, with the government license plate and one eye on the road and one eye on your cellphone screen, it's time to hang up and drive -- by order of the president. On Thursday, President Barack Obama signed an executive order aimed at the 3 million civilian employees of the federal government and its contractors stating that any employee driving a government vehicle or using a government cellphone should not text while driving. The order blames texting while driving -- henceforth to be referred to as a DWIt, or driving-while-intexticated -- for everything from distracting drivers to ...
Clunkers Program Ends Monday Night
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyClunker junkers need to get busy. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Thursday that the popular cash for clunkers program will end at 8 p.m. Monday. LaHood said that the government is working toward "an orderly wind down" of the program after its success surprised even its biggest boosters.Consumers blew through the $1 billion set aside for the rebate program so quickly that Congress moved weeks ago to add an additional $2 billion to extend it through its original November deadline. But nearly 500,000 cars and trucks later, the cash for clunkers is poised to end. ...
White House to Bring 'Cash for Clunkers' to a Close
By David Knowles - Politics DailyA look at the numbers shows that "Cash for Clunkers" has been an incredible hit with car buyers and automakers. More than 435,000 new cars have been sold. Ford notched its first monthly sales increase in more than two years. GM sold 70,000 more vehicles in August than it had originally projected, and 1,350 workers were reinstated at its plants to help build new cars to fill a sudden inventory shortfall. At its August peak, the program helped move 30,000 cars each day in the U.S. But, alas, all good (and costly) things must come to an end. ...
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