Center for Autosafety

February 12, 2019 Councilmember Mary M. Cheh, Chairperson Committee on Transportation and the Environment Council of the District of Columbia 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004 Dear Chairperson Cheh, The Center for Auto Safety (the Center), the nation’s premier independent, non-profit consumer advocacy organization dedicated to imp

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 1, 2019 Contact: Grace Garver, ggarver@autosafety.org, (202) 328-7700 Center for Auto Safety Releases Rankings of State Lemon Laws Illinois and Colorado are Worst; New Jersey and Washington are Best Today, the Center for Auto Safety—the nation’s premier independent, non-profit, member-driven consumer advocacy orga

December 11, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Grace Garver, ggarver@autosafety.org, (202) 328-7700 Center for Auto Safety Submits Comments to NHTSA on Autonomous Vehicle Testing Pilot Program  Yesterday, the Center for Auto Safety (“the Center”) submitted comments to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (“NHTSA�

December 7, 2018 Dear Senator, As consumer protection and privacy rights organizations, representing millions of members and supporters, we are writing to express serious concern with how the AV Start Act, S 1885, could affect consumer privacy. Some of us also have concerns with other elements of the bill, but we are united in asking that the Congr

Jason Levine runs the Center for Auto Safety in Washington, D.C., and called for action on Cadillac’s part. “The best way to move forward would be for Cadillac to inspect, make transparent, make clear what is going on for these consumers,” he said. He’d also like to see the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHT

The parents who were awarded a $150 million verdict—and later collected a reduced judgment of $40 million plus interest—for the death of their son in an exploding Jeep have established The Remington Walden Auto Safety Fund with the Center for Auto Safety in Washington, D.C. The family’s attorneys said Wednesday that Lindsay Newsome Strickland

Jason Levine, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety, said lack of U.S. participation in the U.N. group is embarrassing for a country that once led in auto safety. “It is yet another indication of the auto industry in the United States and the Trump administration’s complete lack of leadership when it comes to the sa

“Today, in an era when new vehicles average over $36,000, the ability to return a lemon is more important than ever for consumers who are put in a frustrating situation, through no fault of their own,” Jason Levine, executive director of the center, said in a statement. “A defective new car is just like a bad dream that just keeps coming back