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Number of motor vehicle fatalities down slightly in 2018

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In this June 14, 2018, file photo, Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at a news conference in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

NTSB: Autopilot was in use before Tesla hit semitrailer

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FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2013, file photo the new 2015 Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck is on display at the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles. U.S. highway safety regulators are investigating whether General Motors went far enough when it recalled about 3,000 small pickup trucks in 2016. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into whether GM should recall about 115,000 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon pickups from the 2015 model year. The agency says it has received 50 complaints about failures from owners of trucks that weren’t included in the 2016 recall. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

US agency probes whether GM pickup recall went far enough

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US agency scraps proposal to prevent unintended acceleration

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US probes inadvertent side air bag deployment on Mazda SUVs

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This undated combination of photos shows clockwise from top left the logos for Toyota, Honda, Kia, Fiat Chrysler, Mitsubishi and Hyundai. U.S. auto safety regulators have expanded an investigation into malfunctioning air bag controls to include 12.3 million vehicles because the bags may not inflate in a crash. Vehicles made by Toyota, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, Mitsubishi and Fiat Chrysler from the 2010 through 2019 model years are included in the probe, which was revealed Tuesday, April 23, 2019, in documents posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (AP Photos)

U.S. expands probe into air bag failures to 12.3M vehicles

By Tom Krisher - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2017 file photo, the 2017 Nissan Rogue Sport is on display at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The nonprofit Center for Auto Safety filed a petition, Friday, April 12, 2019 with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to investigate automatic emergency braking on some Nissan Rogue SUVs, alleging the safety feature makes the vehicles brake when there’s no emergency. The group says about 675,000 Rogues from 2017 and 2018 should be recalled. Nissan says it has taken “field actions” to tell customers of a software update that improves performance of the automated braking system. The government says it will evaluate the petition. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Group asks gov’t to probe Nissan automatic emergency braking

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FILE- This Oct. 4, 2012, file photo shows a Hyundai Sonata at a Hyundai car dealership in Des Plaines, Ill. The U.S. government’s highway safety agency said Monday, April 1, 2019, that it has decided to open two new investigations into fires involving Hyundai and Kia vehicles. The investigations cover non-crash fires in almost 3 million vehicles from the affiliated Korean automakers. The probes cover the 2011 through 2014 Hyundai Sonata and Santa Fe, the 2011 through 2014 Kia Optima and Sorento, and the 2010 through 2015 Kia Soul. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

US safety agency opens probes into Hyundai and Kia fires

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

In this June 14, 2018, file photo, Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at a news conference in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Second federal agency to probe fatal Florida Tesla crash

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Hyundai, Kia recall more than 500K vehicles as fire risk spreads

By Tom Krisher - Associated Press

FILE- This July 14, 2015, file photo shows the ARC Automotive manufacturing plant in Knoxville, Tenn. Nearly four years ago, the U.S. government’s highway safety agency began investigating air bag inflators made by ARC Automotive of Tennessee when two people were hit by flying shrapnel after crashes. A public records posted by the agency show little progress on the probe, which began in July of 2015 and remains unresolved. (Adam Lau/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP, File)

Driver hurt by air bag shrapnel as investigation drags on

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

FILE - This June 25, 2017, file photo shows TK Holdings Inc. headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich. More than three years after the government took over management of recalls involving dangerous Takata air bag inflators, one third of the recalled inflators still have not been replaced. That's according to an annual report on the recalls issued Friday, Dec. 21, 2018 by the government and a court-appointed recall monitor. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Report says 16.7M faulty Takata air bags still on US roads

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

US probes Ford pickup tailgates opening unexpectedly

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Safety group wants Hyundai and Kia to recall 2.9M vehicles

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

FILE- In this March 13, 2015, file photo, a worker inspects a new 2015 aluminum-alloy body Ford F-150 truck at the company's Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Mo. Under pressure from U.S. safety regulators, Ford is recalling about 2 million F-150 pickups in North America because the seat belts can cause fires. The recall covers certain trucks from the 2015 through 2018 model years. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Ford recalls 2M pickup trucks; seat belts can cause fires

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

Kia recalls over 500K vehicles; air bags may not inflate

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Kia recalls 106,000 Sedona minivans for sliding-door problem

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FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2015, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., introduces the Model X car at the company's headquarters in Fremont, Calif. For years, Tesla has boasted that its cars and SUVs are safer than other vehicles on the roads, and Musk doubled down on the claims in a series of tweets this week. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

AP FACT CHECK: Tesla safety claims aren’t quite right

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

This Friday, May 11, 2018, file photo released by the South Jordan Police Department shows a traffic collision involving a Tesla Model S sedan with a Fire Department mechanic truck stopped at a red light in South Jordan, Utah. The driver of a Tesla electric car that hit a Utah fire department vehicle over the weekend says the car's semi-autonomous Autopilot mode was engaged at the time of the crash. (South Jordan Police Department via AP, File)

Car data: Utah Tesla driver had hands off wheel before crash

By JULIAN HATTEM - Associated Press

Feds widen safety probes of Ford, VW and Nissan vehicles

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