The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is encouraging manufacturers to improve their seat belt reminders, saying the increased belt use that would result could save as many as 1,500 lives a year. For repairers, [...]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating LG Energy Solution’s high voltage lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles following several recalls by Mercedes-Benz, General Motors, Hyundai, Stellantis, and Volkswagen over the past two [...]
The latest edition of Ford’s On Target magazine has arrived on digital newsstands, offering an in-depth look at some of the key exterior components of the new Maverick hybrid pickup, and exploring its new job [...]
A PartsTrader email sent out to members on April 4 states General Motors let dealers know last week that “the claim reimbursement process for the ‘Bump the Competition’ program for PartsTrader will be converted to [...]
General Motors and Honda have agreed to co-develop a series of electric vehicles (EVs), beginning with a focus on affordable compact crossovers, the companies have announced. Production is expected to begin in 2027. In a [...]
Stellantis announced earlier this week it piloted a new connected car driver and pedestrian safety concept in Blacksburg, Virginia on a Jeep Wrangler 4xe plug-in hybrid. The pilot was part of the 5G Automotive Association [...]
A Toyota subsidiary said it is developing autonomous vehicle technology that learns from data gathered by low-cost cameras, rather than more expensive lidar units, Reuters has reported. Woven Planet told Reuters it is able to [...]
Most drivers are misinformed about what their car insurance covers, with many believing that they have insurance that isn’t actually available, a nationwide survey conducted for Forbes Advisor has found. As a result, “drivers may [...]
Mitchell International has released a new photo-based estimating service that SVP Repair Sales/APD Solutions Jack Rozint told Repairer Driven News is an improvement on TruckEst and will replace it. Mitchell Cloud Estimating TruckMax, available in [...]
A bill approved Tuesday by the Pennsylvania Senate Law and Justice Committee would bring collision repair shops in on identifying hit-and-run drivers. The creation of an alert system is an idea of the family of [...]
