The 2012-18 Focus models may have a malfunctioning fuel canister purge valve that can get stuck in an open position.

The wait for the self-driving future is coming to an end. The earliest real-world applications of autonomous vehicles will arrive in 2018.

The second largest U.S. automaker said side doors of certain F-150 and Super Duty pickups may not open or can appear closed when not fully latched.

Both Subaru and Honda tumbled from the top group of 'more reliable' brands, with Hondas Civic compact car losing its longstanding recommendation from Consumer Reports.

Bill Ford called on the auto industry and public institutions to address ethical issues emerging in a world where robot cars will make life-and-death decisions in roadway crashes and to do it soon.

The goal is to lower costs enough to make autonomous vehicles affordable to millions of people, CEO Mark Fields said in a speech Monday.

A veteran Volkswagen engineer pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud U.S. regulators and customers, the first criminal charge in the Justice Departments year-long investigation into the companys rigging of federal air-pollution tests.

Ford is among five investors providing $6.6 million in seed funding for Civil Maps, a California startup that creates three-dimensional maps for autonomous cars.