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LoJack reports 90 percent recovery rate

LoJack reports 90 percent recovery rate
LoJack Corp., the Westwood company that specializes in finding and recovering a wide range of mobile assets including motor vehicles and construction equipment, said today that it posted a 90 percent success rate for recovering 11,382 LoJack-equipped stolen vehicles in 2009. Citing FBI data for 2008,...
February 23rd, 2010 | Auto Insurance, Safety & Security | Read More

Snowstorm, multi-car pileup hit Plains

A strong snowstorm that cut visibility nearly to zero in some places as it rolled across the Plains on Saturday caused numerous vehicle pileups and forced authorities to close portions of several major highways. Dozens of vehicles were involved in a pileup on Interstate 29 in western Missouri,...
December 22nd, 2007 | Safety & Security | Read More

Reducing blind zones in big cars among bill's aims

The government would be required to examine a number of auto safety problems such as backovers and other deadly accidents involving children under a bill approved by a House committee today. The House Energy and Commerce Committee, on a voice vote, passed a bill that would require federal...
December 20th, 2007 | Safety & Security | Read More

EU wants safer brake systems in cars to reduce pedestrian deaths

The European Commission on Monday proposed that all new cars be fitted with an advanced braking system that can detect an emergency and shrink reaction times for slowing the vehicle. The proposal to install Brake Assist Systems in vehicles beginning in 2009 is part of a set of measures intended...
October 16th, 2007 | Safety & Security | Read More

German Chancellor Merkel backs EU automakers on CO2 issue

German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed her nation's automakers Thursday in a European debate over how to reduce greenhouse emissions as she opened the world's largest motor show in Frankfurt. "The automobile industry has my support" for its position that different categories of...
September 13th, 2007 | Safety & Security | Read More

U.S., China reach auto safety agreement

The government on Wednesday signed an agreement with China that will improve information sharing on auto safety following last summer's recall of thousands of defective Chinese-made tires. The "memorandum of understanding" signed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
September 13th, 2007 | Safety & Security | Read More

Side air bag rule in works

Federal officials next month will finally unveil one of the last major auto safety regulations in the works -- a requirement that automakers install side air bags by the early part of the next decade. A government Web site said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulation...
August 27th, 2007 | Safety & Security | Read More

7 dead as Mississippi River bridge falls

At least seven people were killed when an interstate bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed Wednesday evening, in what the governor called a "catastrophe of historic proportions." The accident occurred shortly after 6 p.m. (7 p.m. ET) when dozens of cars were on the bridge. Witnesses...
August 1st, 2007 | Safety & Security | Read More

Next-generation Vauxhalls will talk to each other

Vauxhall's new Calibra will have the very latest technology which is set to make the company's models some of the safest in the world. The firm has come up with an incredible safety system which should drastically reduce the chance of a road traffic accident. Called Vehicle-to-Vehicle...
July 14th, 2007 | Safety & Security | Read More

Chinese tires recalled

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has ordered a recall of 450,000 light truck tires that could have an increased risk of tread separation. No recall is actually taking place yet, however, because the company that imported the tires claims, in documents filed with NHTSA,...
June 27th, 2007 | Safety & Security | Read More
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