All the headlines from our General Motors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 20 2017 // General Motors Co. has agreed to pay $120 million to resolve claims from 49 U.S. states and the District of Columbia over faulty ignition switches, state attorneys general and the company said on Thursday.The largest U.S....
Oct 6 2017 // General Motors Co.’s self-driving unit, Cruise Automation, told California regulators its vehicles were involved in six crashes in the state in September, but said none of automated vehicles were responsible.The...
Sep 26 2017 // The technology that gives cars superpowers to see around corners and through walls won’t be on the first self-driving rides hitting the road in the next few years.Vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems, known as...
Aug 14 2017 // Plaintiffs suing General Motors Co. over faulty ignition switches and other alleged vehicle defects have reached a $1 billion settlement requiring the automaker to turn over that amount of stock, a lawyer for the...
Aug 11 2017 // Maven Gig has expanded to Los Angeles.The General Motors Co. service lets drivers rent cars by the week and use them for ridesharing and other services. Maven Gig began this spring in San Diego and San Francisco. It...
Jul 20 2017 // A federal jury in New York on Wednesday found General Motors was not to blame for a crash of an Arizona man who alleged that his accident was caused by an updated version of the carmaker’s ignition switch that did...
Jul 19 2017 // Anil Lewis was behind the wheel of his Ford Mustang convertible on a sunny Atlanta day in 1988, when he nearly hit a pedestrian who appeared in a crosswalk ahead of him, seemingly out of nowhere.It was then Lewis realized...
Jun 26 2017 // General Motors Co. has agreed to settle federal lawsuits by as many as 203 plaintiffs over defective ignition switches in its vehicles, a Friday court filing shows.Settlement terms are confidential, but the accord could...
Jun 12 2017 // Big automakers are rushing to launch self-driving cars as early as 2021, but the industry’s major players are moving slowly when it comes to widespread deployment of a less expensive crash prevention technology that...
Apr 24 2017 // General Motors Co.’s bid to block hundreds of lawsuits, potentially worth billions of dollars, over a deadly ignition-switch defect broke down on Monday when the Supreme Court refused to hear its appeal claiming the...
Dec 30 2016 // General Motors has been sued over a 2014 car fire that caused more than $450,000 in damage to two central Pennsylvania homes.Pennlive.com reports that Erie Insurance Exchange and four of its policy holders claim the blaze...
Dec 2 2016 // General Motors Co.’s semi-autonomous “Super Cruise” system will allow drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel for extended periods, but will stop the vehicle automatically if drivers are not...
Nov 8 2016 // As auto supplier Takata Corp. prepares for a possible U.S. bankruptcy filing, potential bidders are poring over a recent U.S. court ruling that could expose a buyer to liability for the company’s defective air bags,...
Sep 7 2016 // General Motors Co. settled the final two bellwether cases over ignition switch flaws scheduled for trial in federal court in New York, averting one set to begin next week.Terms of the settlements are confidential,...
Aug 29 2016 // General Motors Co.’s victory in a Houston courtroom Thursday makes the carmaker three for three in trials related to an ignition-switch defect, but its legal entanglements may stretch on for years.At least a dozen...
Aug 24 2016 // General Motors LLC failed to derail a Texas family’s claim for damages over a car crash blamed on a faulty ignition-switch after jurors were shown the wrong car key last week.GM claimed Zachary Stevens’ family...
Aug 16 2016 // A Texas judge has thrown out a lawsuit against General Motors from a woman who blamed a 2012 car crash on a faulty ignition switch that later prompted the company to recall 2.6 million vehicles.The Aug. 13 order from Judge...
Aug 16 2016 // General Motors Co. failed to designate a flawed ignition switch linked to multiple deaths and injuries as a safety concern, Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra told jurors at a Texas trial.GM engineers in 2004 and 2005...
Jul 14 2016 // General Motors’ 2009 bankruptcy does not shield it from lawsuits over a deadly ignition-switch defect that led to criminal charges against the automaker and prompted the recall of 2.6 million vehicles in 2014, a...
Jun 20 2016 // General Motors Co. is rolling out a sedan laden with gadgets that track other cars on the road and can automatically brake to avoid collisions, fulfilling a safety vision decades in the making.Yet the 2017 Cadillac CTS...