Porsche 911 owners with full bucket seats may want to drive extra carefully for the next month, as an issue with the seat-mounted airbag could cause it to deploy in accidents where it is not needed, ...

Jaguar engineers are using four ultrasonic sensors to determine the position of front seat passengers. Such occupant classification is used to determine if it is best to deactivate airbag deployment ...

General Motors may have cleaned up its act surrounding safety and recalls in the present, and laid strong foundations for the future, but sometimes the past can, and will, creep back. In this case, it ...

No, the passenger-side airbag is supposed to be disabled when the seat is unoccupied or holding a briefcase or something similar. In fact, the airbag may not deploy even if a small adult is sitting in ...

Material sciences, advanced safety technology, and a natural disaster all play a part in Honda’s latest recall, which affects a whopping 750,144 vehicles. Those factors all led to a manufacturing ...

Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors Co., testified at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing last month about safety issues with GM cars. (Pete Marovich/Bloomberg) Here's an ...

The ASIC, as part of an occupant detection system, prevents airbag injuries to infants by suppressing deployment of the passenger airbag if a child seat is present. Current passenger air-bag shutoff ...

Tesla is developing a way to classify drivers and passengers based on their weight in order to program safer airbag deployment in its vehicles, according to a new patent application. Earlier this week ...

More than 140,000 2018–2021 Volkswagen Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport SUVs are being recalled because the front passenger airbag may not work. On vehicles with a passenger occupant detection system ...

Nissan and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have issued a recall for 989,701 vehicles in the US due to an issue with their passenger-side airbag systems. Affected Nissan models ...

A recall issued by the Volkswagen Group of America for over 143,000 sport utility vehicles (SUVs) is underway, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced Tuesday. The ...