In March, a self-driving Uber vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian who was walking her bicycle across the street in a Phoenix suburb. An operator sitting in the driver’s seat failed to take control of the vehicle to avoid the collision. Video footage of the accident shows the operator may have been distracted in the...
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is taking the unusual step of forcing a manufacturer to recall a product. Britax, a worldwide manufacturer of children’s products, is being sued by the CPSC over its three-wheeled jogging strollers. According to the CPSC, it has received more than 200 complaints involving the product since 2012. Complaints...
More than 60 million vehicles in the US are under recall for safety defects. Statistics published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) show that 37 million of these recalls are for defective Takata airbags. These airbags can explode with deadly force, even during minor collisions. If your vehicle has an unfixed recall, then...
As we approach the holiday season, people are going to start looking around for gifts to buy their loved ones (if you haven’t already started – you might want to get on it!). As you do, you should be aware of product recalls as well as unsafe products that have the potential to turn the...
In July, nearly 400 Ford Explorers were pulled from the Austin Police Department. This happened due to a purported design defect in the vehicles, which lead to carbon monoxide leaks that were harming police officers. The problem became apparent earlier this year after a slew of police officers suffered injuries due to carbon monoxide. In...
It’s getting difficult to keep up with these Ford Explorer carbon monoxide poisoning stories. Over the course of the last few months, several police officers throughout the country have suffered exposure to elevated levels of the toxic gas. Many of those officers live right here in Austin. On Wednesday, July 9, another two officers received...
The saga of the defective Ford Explorers continues. Between July 7 and July 8 of this year, five more incidents of leaking carbon monoxide in police Explorers were reported. On July 7, a carbon monoxide monitor inside two APD officers’ car started going off intermittently. Both officers continued their work. The monitor went off seven...
Several police officers throughout the country have been harmed and even killed due to a silent, but deadly defect in their Ford Explorers. An officer in Newport Beach crashed his vehicle into a tree. Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Garner and Community Service Officer Raschel Johnson died when Garner’s SUV sped off the road in...
Gross! When they said the salad is organic, the purchaser was not expecting this! Apparently this kind of salad is sold in southeastern U.S. Wal-Marts. We’re not sure if that extends to Austin. If you have one of these salads, you should probably throw it out, just in case.
Samsung Electronics Co has been under fire this year for the much anticipated release of the Galaxy Note 7 cell phone, which apparently came with an unexpected but explosive feature. There were more than 92 reports of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 explosions as of last month. Of those, there were 25 reports of burns...
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