Yesterday NTSB presented a brilliant and innovative idea to reduce alcohol-related traffic fatalities – states should raise their measure of drunk (Blood Alcohol Content) from .08 to .05. The government reaches in the closet for a solution only to pull out...a bigger stick.

There’s a pretty damning report out that suggests cars sold in Brazil are much less safe than nearly identical models sold in North America and Europe, contributing to much higher rates of fatal crashes just as the country’s auto market booms.

It's designed to make driving safer, particularly after a long day at work or a tiring road trip, but GM's haptic seat technology that lets you know when you start unintentionally changing lanes might be even scarier than the drift.

One of the two greatest questions anyone will ask (or rather just assume) about the smart fortwo is, "Is it safe?"

We've been hearing a lot about how Katherine Bigelow's movie, Zero Dark Thirty, is being seen by some as an endorsement of torture. Which is, you know, generally frowned upon. What most people don't realize is that the late Plymouth Motor Company, part of Chrysler, once openly endorsed torture in their mid-1930s era …

Since it's the start of the week (I go by the Zoroastrian calendar), I'm guessing your first thought is "how did people in late 1960s America keep their children from getting crushed by massive mid-century iron?"

Dear Lifehacker,
Hurricane Sandy was rough on me. Now that my power is back on and I'm getting things back to normal, what can I do to help people who are still struggling?

One of the quirks of modern safety preparation and advanced storm warnings is that, while people still die in hurricanes in the U.S., many of the deaths occur after the storm has passed. And those deaths are often avoidable with just a little safety consciousness.

If you survive the fiery window switches of doom you're only buying time until you crash and a counterfeit Chinese airbag doesn't explode, thus ending your life prematurely. Or worse, rather than not exploding, it blows up in your face like in the video above.

The passengers in this brand new Volvo XC60 weren't expecting anything out of the ordinary as they drove away from an airfield northeast of London yesterday afternoon two years ago. But the pilot of an small AT3 aircraft botched his landing somehow, hitting the car.