In January 2026, Volkswagen issued an urgent and alarming directive to owners of more than 44,000 ID.4 electric SUVs: park your vehicle outside immediately after charging, and do not leave it charging indoors overnight. The reason was chilling — a series of battery fires, some occurring while the vehicles were parked and not even plugged in, had prompted one of the most serious EV safety recalls in recent memory. Volkswagen also warned owners to avoid fast charging entirely a

Americans tend to take for granted that someone is watching the automakers. When a dangerous part makes it into millions of vehicles, we assume a federal agency will find it, investigate it, and compel a recall before too many people get hurt. That assumption has always rested on the capacity of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the federal agency responsible for investigating vehicle defects, establishing safety standards, and forcing manufacturers to take

If you have been injured in a car accident, a slip and fall, or any other incident and filed an insurance claim recently, there is a growing chance that the offer you received was not evaluated by a human being. Across the insurance industry, carriers are deploying artificial intelligence systems to assess injury claims, calculate settlement values, and even generate the letters and emails you receive from adjusters. While insurers tout these tools as faster and more efficien

Right now, as you read this, paid signature gatherers are fanning out across California with clipboards, asking you to sign a petition for something called the "Protecting Automobile Accident Victims from Attorney Self-Dealing Act." The name sounds consumer-friendly. The reality is anything but. This ballot initiative, bankrolled by Uber to the tune of at least $12 million so far, would amend the California Constitution to cap what your attorney can earn representing you aft