As you accelerate down the road and use your gas pedal to throttle in the appropriate amount of energy, you expect a smooth implementation from your foot to the motor. The electronic throttle control ...

Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks each announced recalls that impact a total of nearly 1,900 trucks. In the affected units, the engine may not return to idle within two seconds if the accelerator pedal ...

General Motors faces a new lawsuit surrounding faulty accelerator sensors in the 2016-2018 Chevrolet Malibu. The litigation arose from plaintiff Katrina Hutchinson, who purchased a 2016 Chevrolet ...

The Problem: A defect in the car's accelerator sensor can cause the vehicle to go into a fail-safe mode when the pedal is pushed to the right while depressed. This could cause the engine to stall in ...

New information received by the NHTSA shows that sudden unintended acceleration events with Tesla EVs were real and not driver errors. The report explains in detail what caused the cars to accelerate ...

A few years ago, Toyota was in the news for a major safety issue with a number of their passenger vehicles. Seemingly at random, certain cars were accelerating without concern for driver input, ...