LOS ANGELES — The nation’s top auto-safety regulator is ill-equipped to detect problems with high-tech electronics commonplace in today’s cars, a new government study concludes. Calling such ...

LOS ANGELES — More than 100 Teslas have been involved in accidents because they accelerated unintentionally, according to a complaint filed with federal safety regulators. The complaint, filed on ...

Toyota is desperate to convince a congressional committee that dangerous bouts of uncontrolled acceleration in its cars are the result of mechanical problems, not computer glitches. That's because a ...

Reporting from Washington — Toyota has received nearly 38,000 calls and reports from customers about sudden acceleration problems in its vehicles, many of them flooding in to the automaker after it ...

You're sitting in physics class, working on a traditional problem involving forces and acceleration, when you start to wonder where these terms even came from. Were they just dreamed up to bring ...