LOS ANGELES — Women are more likely than men to mistake the gas pedal for the brakes, according to federal safety regulators. But before all those male drivers out there smugly stereotyping women as ...

YOKOSUKA, Japan – A new safety feature being developed by Nissan Motor Co. causes a car’s gas pedal to lift by itself to alert the driver of a possible collision. The new technology, shown to ...

With the continued increase of elderly drivers involved in motor-vehicle accidents, the chief director of the Japanese ...

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Accidents in which drivers mistakenly hit the gas instead of the brake tend to involve older female drivers in parking lots, a new government study has found. One of the study's most ...

Technology can do a lot to improve fuel economy, but in the real world, changes in driving technique can also pay off with fuel savings. This latest fuel-saving measure uses the former to encourage ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A driver who dropped the car off at the mechanic after claiming the pedal kept getting stuck got quite the surprise when ...