Due to the ongoing NHTSA investigation and several lawsuits involving Toyota, the automaker's in-car "black box" data is coming into the spotlight. However, the Associated Press has conducted an ...

Popularly known as "black boxes," event data recorders (EDRs) have helped investigators solve the mysteries of airplane crashes for decades. Now they've become standard in almost every new car sold.

If you’ve ever been in a car crash, you know a lot can happen in seconds. State and local police accident re-construction teams scour every detail. Now, the ...

Now, automakers charge more money for special editions that have black plastic wheel arches, black plastic bumpers, and black plastic door trim because it makes the car look more rugged ...

In 2022, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed requiring cars that do have black boxes to store 20 seconds of pre-crash data, an increase from the previous ...