Aug 02 Watch 10:41 How would Trump’s fuel standard rules affect Americans? The Trump administration called on Thursday for rolling back the Obama-era fuel standards to make cars get better gas mileage and emit less pollution. Judy Woodruff gets reaction from Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, who plans to join the legal… Continue watching
Apr 02 Watch 3:07 EPA is rolling back fuel standards. What do automakers want? By PBS News Hour The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that the previous administration's rules on auto fuel economy go too far. Under the Obama-era standards, gas mileage would have doubled in new vehicles by 2025. Judy Woodruff learns more from Amy Harder of… Continue watching
Mar 30 Analysis: Why the EPA’s shift on auto efficiency rules will give China the upper hand By Greg Dotson, The Conversation Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is expected to announce a plan to relax existing tailpipe standards that apply through 2025, which may yield a competitive advantage to other nations. Continue reading
Dec 30 Watch 4:31 Why young Russians enjoy racing with faulty, Cold War-era cars By PBS News Hour, Nick Schifrin On the streets of Moscow, young Russians are participating in a highly symbolic race: they’re scooping up Ladas, an old-school emblem of the Cold War era, and racing them against fancier sports cars. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Nick Schifrin talks… Continue watching
Dec 19 Watch 3:51 This female-operated auto shop puts women in the driver’s seat of their own repairs By Julia Griffin In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, Patrice Banks used to get uncomfortable taking her car to the mechanic. But following a successful career as an engineer, she decided to revolutionize the industry with her own take on the… Continue watching
Oct 07 Traffic deaths spiked in 2016, including pedestrians killed By Joan Lowy, Associated Press Traffic fatalities rose 5.6 percent last year, with the biggest spikes in pedestrian and motorcyclist deaths, the government said Friday. Continue reading
Apr 30 More states adopt ‘click it or ticket’ laws, but do they work? By Jenni Bergal, Stateline Nearly three dozen states allow police to stop a car and ticket motorists simply for not wearing a seat belt. But foes say the laws are too intrusive and can lead to… Continue reading
Jul 28 Traffic deaths rise when cities remove red-light cameras, study says By Joan Lowy, Associated Press Red-light cameras are widely hated, but a new study says getting rid of them can have fatal consequences. Continue reading
May 28 How will driverless cars make life-or-death decisions? By Kamala Kelkar In a future when cars no longer need humans to drive, decisions about who might live or die in a crash are already being made — by the so-called “moral codes” preprogrammed into a car's neurology. Continue reading
May 27 Automakers recall 12 million cars over Takata airbags By Eugene Mason Automakers are recalling 12 million vehicles over faulty Takata airbags, the latest addition to what is already the largest-ever auto recall in the U.S. Continue reading