You begin pedaling, but instead of the motor responding immediately, nothing happens for a moment. Then the pedal assist ...

When an e-bike suddenly stops working, cuts out under load, or powers on but will not move, it is easy to assume the worst.

The US Department of Transportation has proposed removing the federal requirement for manual brake pedals in vehicles designed to operate exclusively through automated driving systems. The change ...

If a self-driving car is going to stop, it may need to stop itself. US vehicle safety regulators are proposing to let robotaxi designers get rid of brake pedals, calling regulatory requirements for ...

The US Department of Transportation is moving to scrap requirements for brake pedals in driverless vehicles, a step that could clear the way for companies including Waymo and Tesla Inc. to put more ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced the start of rulemaking for new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), which notably would change some rules for ...

Absent a clutch, a vehicle needs only two pedals to move and stop—but federal rulemaking initiated last week could soon eliminate one of those pedals entirely for vehicles operated by fully automated ...

The Trump administration just took a major step towards eliminating brake pedal requirements for autonomous vehicles. On Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed on Thursday to end a government requirement for manual brake pedals in self-driving vehicles, a move that would make it easier to deploy ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation on June 25 proposed removing brake pedal requirements for fully driverless vehicles through updates to federal safety standards. The change could accelerate ...

U.S. regulators are preparing to remove a longstanding requirement that vehicles have brake pedals if they are designed to operate entirely without a human driver, a move that could make it easier for ...

The Trump administration’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has proposed new changes to federal vehicle regulations that would allow companies to skip including brake pedals in “vehicles designed to ...