Automatic braking systems save lives. Now they’ll need to work at 62 mph. Regulators have ordered an expansion of the tech, but the auto industry says the upgrade won’t be easy.

A new report from AAA finds these emergency braking systems are getting even better—and challenges automakers to perfect them at even higher speeds.

The braking system also doesn’t have the ability to stop a train if there is an object like a car or person on the tracks, so the safety board also recommended developing a set of sensors that ...

One of the more practical recommendations the board made was for railroads to develop a way to automatically turn the automatic braking system back on after it is manually disabled to allow for ...

Currently, the automatic braking systems will remind an engineer to turn the system back on if they don’t do it within several miles of when the switching move was completed, but the safety board said ...

The National Transportation Safety Board has said more than 150 train crashes since 1969 could have been prevented by Positive Train Control. The agency had recommended the automatic braking ...

One of the more practical recommendations the board made was for railroads to develop a way to automatically turn the automatic braking system back on after it is manually disabled to allow for ...