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Yahoo
4 hours ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
GM Suspends 2026 SUV Sales Over Undisclosed Problem
GM Suspends 2026 SUV Sales Over Undisclosed Problem originally appeared on Autoblog. General Motors has placed a stop-sale order on three of its midsize SUVs – the 2026 model years of the GMC Acadia, Buick Enclave, and Chevrolet Traverse. While these nameplates each target slightly different market segments, they're all built on the GM C1 platform and assembled at the Lansing Delta Township plant in Michigan. They also share the same 2.5-liter turbocharged inline-four engine. But right now, what they really share is a problem. As of July 7, GM has issued a stop-sale on all three 2026 models, citing an undisclosed quality issue, according to GM Authority. Dealers were instructed via bulletin N252517720 not to sell, trade, auction, or even use affected vehicles for demonstration purposes. The order covers specific VINs, and while GM investigates the issue, these SUVs are essentially on lockdown. View the 2 images of this gallery on the original article The timing of the stop-sale is unfortunate, especially since the 2026 model year brings notable updates for all three SUVs. The 2026 GMC Acadia gets more tech than the outgoing model year, but with a price hike in tow. It now starts at over $44,000, with standard features including a digital key card and a Rear Camera Mirror for the Elevation trim, while Glacier White Tricoat and Riverstone Metallic replace older color options. Meanwhile, the 2026 Buick Enclave gets updated interior trim, upgraded in-car tech, and a sleeker infotainment interface. The automaker also shuffled paint options and tweaked some of the standard safety tech. The 2026 Chevy Traverse has only been redesigned for 2024, which hosted the return of the Z71 trim and a new, sportier-looking RS variant. While no major powertrain changes were introduced, the Traverse benefits from tech upgrades and refreshed interior styling. View the 2 images of this gallery on the original article GM hasn't provided a timeline for when the stop-sale might be lifted, or what quality issue exactly triggered it. Of note, production has already started, so the problem must have been really important to not reach customers. This isn't the first time that GM has issued a stop-sale order. In 2023, GM halted sales of the Chevy Blazer EV due to software issues, while in 2016, it stopped selling certain SUVs over incorrect fuel economy labels. View the 2 images of this gallery on the original article GM Suspends 2026 SUV Sales Over Undisclosed Problem first appeared on Autoblog on Jul 14, 2025 This story was originally reported by Autoblog on Jul 14, 2025, where it first appeared.
Time of India
9 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
Sankar Vilas flyover in Guntur set for demolition on July 20
Guntur: Decks have been cleared for bulldozing of the Sankar Vilas flyover in Guntur city as the district administration directed the police and civic authorities to take immediate alternative measures to divert the traffic. The old flyover will be razed down to construct a new one. The traffic on the flyover will be stopped from next Wednesday. The R&B department, the nodal agency to construct the new flyover, has decided to start bulldozing of the existing flyover from July 20 and asked the line departments to take adequate measures to handle the vehicular movement through alternative routes. Taking the R&B department's decisions into consideration, district collector Nagalakshmi asked the Guntur Municipal Corporation (GMC) and city traffic police to stop vehicular movement on Sankar vilas flyover route from July 16 itself. In fact, a year has passed since the Centre sanctioned 98 crore to take up the new Road over Bridge (RoB) by replacing the 65-year-old flyover near Sankar vilas junction. The district administration took more than 10 months to complete the spade work before the launch of the construction. Surprisingly, the govt has not completely cleared the compensation to the building owners who will be losing their precious properties on the main road of brodipet. GMC authorities have been asked to ensure that key alternative roads-three bridges junction and Pattabhipuram road under bridge (RUB) were not flooded during the monsoon season. The GMC has geared up with diesel motors and operators to handle the emergencies to pump out the water. Similarly, the potholes on all the exit and entry routes have been taken up on war footing basis to allow the free flow of traffic during the construction of the new flyover. The traffic DSP Ramesh made a whirlwind visit of the city and initiated measures to remove the bottlenecks. The vehicle parking slot near APSRTC bus stand and auto parking area have been evacuated to prevent the traffic jam. Similarly, the traffic diversions were initiated near Donka Road, kuglar hospital road, Chuttugunta junction and GMC office. The vehicle parking area has been removed at Lalapet police station and street vendors were also removed from the vegetable market area. Traffic police decided to deploy additional teams near key junctions to clear the traffic jams after diversion of the traffic. "We will suggest the educational institutions in and around the city which operated buses via Pattabhipuram flyover to change the opening and closing times by 30 minutes to 45 minutes to reduce the traffic jam," said a senior police official. More than 200 schools and colleges operate buses through the city roads. GFX Sankar vilas flyover is key link between the trade zone of Guntur one town residential areas of two town The flyover handles movement of more than 1 lakh vehicles per day Diversion of such huge traffic through limited alternative routes is a big challenge for the GMC and city police The construction of new flyover is expected to take at least three years Centre granted Rs.98 crore for taking up the four-lane RoB
Medscape
15 hours ago
- Health
- Medscape
One in Five Trainee Doctors Fear Escalating Patient Care
More than one in five trainee doctors in the UK hesitate to escalate concerns about a patient's condition, according to the latest General Medical Council (GMC) national training survey. This figure rose to nearly one in three among trainees in high-pressure specialties, including surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, general medicine, and emergency medicine. These groups also reported the highest levels of stress, bullying, and incivility. New for 2024, the GMC asked trainees if they ever felt apprehensive about escalating care to a senior colleague. Among those who reported hesitancy: 4% said they felt this daily or weekly. 5% monthly. 12% less often. Professor Pushpinder Mangat, medical director at the GMC, said: "These findings are extremely concerning. Doctors need to feel comfortable escalating concerns. When they don't, there are potentially serious risks to patient safety." Burnout Risk Still High Burnout levels remain high, with one in five trainees at high risk — double the rate reported in 2019, though slightly down from 2023. Burnout varied significantly by specialty – from 30% in emergency medicine to just 4% in public health. Half of the cohort said that they found their work emotionally exhausting to a high or very high degree. Among trainers, 11% were cat high risk of burnout, and 36% at moderate risk. Despite this, 90% said they enjoyed their role, and 70% rated the support they received as either good or very good. Training Quality Mostly Rated Highly The GMC received responses from 50,637 trainees and 21,289 trainers. Among trainees: 87% rated the quality of their clinical supervision as good or very good. 84% said the quality of their training experience was good or very good. 63% said their posts gave them opportunities to develop their leadership skills. However, concerns persisted: 16% of surgery trainees rated teaching quality as poor or very poor, compared with 3% of GP trainees. 61% were at moderate or high risk of burnout. 39% lacked confidence reporting workplace discrimination. 28% experienced negative behaviour from colleagues. 9% of female and 4% of male trainees reported unwelcome sexual comments or advances. Rota Gaps The survey also found continuing problems due to rota gaps, with 26% saying their training had been affected because these gaps are not being dealt with effectively. The GMC said it is 'vital' that trusts and boards address the issue. The report noted a steady increase over recent years in the proportion of trainees working less than full time, which now involved 30% of female and 15% of male trainees. There was also 'notable variation' between specialties, with 46% of paediatrics and child health trainees training less than full time, compared with just 8% of those in surgery posts. Those rating their workload as heavy or very heavy (42% overall) ranged from 70% in emergency medicine to 19% in public health. Of those who worked less than full-time, or had considered or applied to do so, 66% sought a better work-life balance and 44% cited childcare responsibilities. The GMC called for flexible training models to create a sustainable workforce and safe patient care. It was 'clear that medical education and training needs to adapt', it said.
The Drive
16 hours ago
- Automotive
- The Drive
The Real Reason Guardrails Can't Stop EVs in a Crash
The latest car news, reviews, and features. You hear it all the time: the obesity epidemic isn't limited to human beings. Cars—especially EVs—are too big and too heavy, to the point where they're endangering our infrastructure. So when a video of a 7,173-pound Rivian R1T absolutely obliterating a highway safety barrier went viral, it was no surprise at all that the resulting commentary focused on its gargantuan weight. But is that really the whole story? Of course not. That's the whole point of a tease, right? The reality is, weight alone can't explain it. Generally speaking, yes, vehicles have been getting heavier. But trucks and SUVs really aren't that much more massive than even their decades-old equivalents, and even big EVs like the Rivian R1T, the GMC Hummer EV, and the Tesla Cybertruck aren't that much heavier than some well-optioned heavy-duty pickups (the F-350 Platinum I drove a few months ago was probably a 7,600-pound truck, for example). So if that's not the issue, what makes it so difficult to build a standardized guardrail? According to the folks who do it for a living, the issue is really twofold. For starters, while passenger cars aren't getting much heavier on spec, those driving heavier trucks are throwing off the curve, which makes it more difficult to design a single barrier with universal applicability. According to Cody Stolle, the assistant director of the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, testing is conducted with vehicles ranging from about 2,400 pounds (subcompacts) to around 5,000 pounds (full-size pickups). Vehicles weighing 7,000 pounds or more are outliers, and as The Drive Editor-in-Chief Kyle Cheromcha points out in the video, heavy-duty pickups drivers would find themselves in a similar predicament. A Tesla Model 3 undermines a highway safety barrier during a test. The second facet of the issue compounds the first, and it's an issue almost universally associated with EVs. Because barriers only work if they're able to absorb the energy from an impact, they're engineered to take those hits where most of a car's energy is concentrated: its center of mass. Unlike gasoline cars, which have relatively tall engines under their hoods, most EVs utilize floor-mounted battery packs that lower that point considerably, as demonstrated by the test where a Tesla Model 3 almost completely undermined the main impact rail and continued on, rather than being captured by it as intended. And keep in mind, engineers aren't designing barriers just for the cars and trucks on sale today. America's fleet is getting older every year, and with that greater disparity between the newest and oldest cars on the road comes new challenges for the people whose job it is to keep each of them in one piece. Get the full download with the video on our YouTube channel above. Got another infrastructure-related mystery you'd like to have solved? Drop us a line at tips@
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Automotive
- Daily Mail
Biggest US carmaker pauses production for best-selling trucks
America's second-favorite pickup is taking another break. General Motors has again idled its assembly plant in Silao, Mexico – this time from August 4 through August 15 – pausing production of two of its biggest moneymakers: the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. It's the second stoppage in as many months. The same factory also halted production for two weeks in early July. The Silao plant is just one of several that build the full-size pickup trucks. They're also assembled in Indiana, Michigan, and Ontario, Canada. It's not unusual for automakers to temporarily pause production of popular models, especially to retool assembly lines or manage inventory levels. 'Scheduled down weeks at GM Silao are part of a standard operating process focused on optimizing production at our Manufacturing Complex,' the company told But a second two-week shutdown is raising eyebrows, particularly for the Silverado, which sold more than 540,000 units in 2024 – second only to Ford's F-Series pickups. The Sierra is no sales slouch either. The higher-end truck, that comes with more exterior chrome, more luxury interior finishes, and a mechanically similar power center, sold over 340,000 copies last year. Neither car has a reported inventory glut. They also don't have any major reported changes coming to the design that would necessitate a production pause. As of May, Chevrolet had a 65-day supply of vehicles on dealer lots, just under the 70-day industry average. GMC's supply was slightly higher at 77 days. But broader geopolitical and economic factors might be playing into GM's decision, analysts warn. GM has said it is reevaluating how it will build some of its cars in the face of President Donald Trump's 25 percent automotive tariffs . Mary Barra (pictured), the company's top boss, has said the company expects to pay between $4 billion and $5 billion in tariffs this year. She said the automaker doesn't have plans to pass those costs on to consumers. To reduce those costs, GM is investing heavily in stateside manufacturing. The company is spending $888 million to retool an engine plant in Buffalo, New York, for a new line of V8 engines for large trucks and SUVs. GM is also spending about $4 billion to move production of its top-selling Chevy SUVs, the Equinox and Blazer, from Mexico to plants in Kansas and Kentucky. Last year, GM built 889,072 cars in Mexican factories. Over time, independent experts warned that the move to the US could show up on the popular automaker's sticker prices. 'The challenge for GM will be the higher labor costs,' David Whiston, an automotive analyst at Morningstar, previously told 'The higher costs might need to be passed down to dealers and consumers.' Still Whiston said the company will likely remain profitable this year, despite the major investments and tariff costs. The moves also come as GM doubles down on its EV consumer fleet. In the US, the company has axed two underperforming Cadillac SUVs from production. The company plans on transforming both plants into battery assembly lines, especially for its upcoming re-release of the Chevy Bolt.
