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Read More »Petition for Safe Autonomous Vehicles
Sign the Center for Auto Safety’s petition to tell the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Department of Transportation to take action and put rules into place to prevent the deployment of unsafe driverless cars. Despite autonomous and semi-autonomous cars being involved in crashes and even some deaths, the …
Read More »Vehicle Safety Whistleblowers
Whistleblowers play a critical role in exposing vehicle safety and quality issues that negatively impact consumers. The Center for Auto Safety strongly encourages anyone with information related to safety defects to come forward and expose these issues in order to protect vehicle owners and other road users. To report information …
Read More »Center for Auto Safety Statement on DOT Inspector General Report: NHTSA is Failing on Recall Oversight
The Department of Transportation’s Inspector General’s report confirms the Center for Auto Safety’s long-held concerns that NHTSA is failing the American public by taking a hands-off approach to recall oversight. The agency’s records indicate sloppy and incomplete documentation of manufacturer recalls, and it is well documented NHTSA does not enforce …
Read More »In ‘service campaigns,’ car companies allegedly downplay defects linked to poisoning, crashes, and fires
by Amy Martin ConsumerAffairs.com May 17, 2018 When a driver in southern California noticed that his three-year-old Prius was losing power as he cruised down the Interstate 5 highway, with warning lights illuminating on the dashboard and his gas pedal suddenly failing, he knew his only hope to avoid a …
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Center for Auto Safety Formally Objects to GM Petition to Avoid Takata Airbag Inflator Recall
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – THURSDAY, MAY 10 Contact: Michael Brooks, 202-328-7700 mbrooks@autosafety.org Center for Auto Safety Formally Objects to GM Petition to Avoid Takata Airbag Inflator Recall Washington, D.C. — The Center for Auto Safety, the nation’s premier independent non-profit consumer advocacy organization dedicated to …
Read More »FAST Act Recall Notification by Electronic Means
December 4, 2015 SEC. 24104. RECALL PROCESS. (a) Notification Improvement.-- (1) In general.--Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall prescribe a final rule revising the regulations under section 577.7 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, to include notification by electronic …
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