An Australian state is attempting to persuade people to put down their smartphones while driving by rolling out cameras to prosecute distracted motorists. New South Wales Roads Minister Andrew Constance said Monday that Australia's most populous state is the first...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An estimated 36,760 people died in motor vehicle crashes last year, about a 1% decrease from the year before, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Early Estimates of Motor Vehicle Fatalities in 2018. See the...

The European Union is moving to require cars and trucks to have technology that would deter speeding as well as data recorders to document the circumstances of accidents. Those are among the safety features included in a provisional agreement announced...

New Volvos built within the next five years may include cameras pointed at the driver to spot drunk or distracted driving and potentially stop the car, the automaker announced Wednesday in Sweden. Volvo safety engineers said it may be automakers...

Volvo Cars says it will limit the top speed of its new cars at 112 mph in all markets as of next year because "too many people get seriously injured or even killed because of excessive speeding. " CEO Hakan...

Forty countries led by Japan and the European Union — but not the U. S. or China — have agreed to require new cars and light commercial vehicles to be equipped with automated braking systems starting next year, a U...