According to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, by paying the $16.4 million fine, Toyota Motor Corp. has accepted responsibility for violating a law that requires automakers to report safety defects to federal regulators within five days of their discovery.  Although Toyota has denied in statements that it broke the law, LaHood says that agreeing to [...]

In the wake of the Toyota scandal involving the company’s delayed recall of thousands of defective vehicles, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is considering requiring black boxes in all vehicles sold in the U.S. “Black boxes”—also called electronic data recorders, or “EDRs”—record a few seconds of a vehicle’s operations before and after a [...]