Rear-facing back seats in cars, once a common feature in station wagons and family vehicles, evoke a sense of nostalgia for many. While they may seem unconventional today, these seats served specific ...

Not long ago, a cellphone was a cell phone. A teenager was a teen-ager. Goodbye was good-bye. A website was a Web site. Legroom was leg room. Words and compounds evolve all the time. But in this ...

For three decades, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has been smashing vehicles with an adult-sized dummy sitting in the front seat, simulating a type of head-on collision where two ...

The three-point seatbelt was patented in 1955 and issued as standard equipment on 1959 Volvos. Despite a report from the Missouri think tank MOST Policy Initiative reports that rear-seat belt usage ...

Women who check their back seat before driving away aren't doing so because they're dramatic or paranoid. For many women, it's an automatic habit shaped by instinct and lived experience. Personal ...

American Airlines is in talks with SpaceX's Starlink and Amazon to revamp in-flight internet and entertainment, according to a person familiar with the matter. The carrier is also considering adding ...

Toyota is recalling roughly 550,000 Highlander SUVs due to a supplier defect that could cause the seat backs to fail to lock properly, increasing the risk of injury. The recall affects Highlander and ...

The double-level airplane seat concept is back, this time in what designer Alejandro Núñez Vicente calls the “ultimate, final statement.” Premiering first as a college project in 2020, then as an ...

Toyota is recalling 550,007 vehicles because of a seat-back locking issue, federal regulators said. The recall affects 420,771 Highlander and 129,236 Highlander Hybrid vehicles, all from model years ...