Auto Defects

CENTER FOR AUTO SAFETY Statement on Department of Transportation and White House National Science and Technology Council’s “AV 4.0” Document, released January 8, 2020: “AV 4.0 is the perfect encapsulation of the administration’s principles on vehicle safety: say the right words and do the wrong things. Writing the word ‘safety’ …

    “There’s no way for a customer to know,” said Jason Levine, the center’s executive director. Only San Francisco requires cabs to be screened for recalls, he said. “There are no cosmetic recalls. Recalls are only done for safety reasons, defects or a violation of standards,” he said. Click …

For Immediate Release December 23, 2019 Contact: Jason Levine, jlevine@autosafety.org, 202-328-7700 Center for Auto Safety Calls on Seven Major Cities, Maryland and Michigan to Prohibit Taxis with Unrepaired Recalls from Carrying Passengers Today, the Center for Auto Safety sent letters to the city governments of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., …

Jason Levine, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety in Washington, D.C., said the federal regulatory agency has traditionally been, and remains, an underfunded and understaffed safety agency. “Even in the best of times, this limits their ability to identify hard to find defects. And these aren’t the best of …

“The federal government is actively encouraging a corporate laboratory experiment where real people are unknowingly being used as crash dummies,” Jason Levine, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, said in a statement. “The federal government has done nothing to provide AV safety oversight in the 18 months since …