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A Force to Fix Rental Car Policy
By Janie Lorber
Roll Call Staff
Feb. 27, 2012, Midnight
For months, Enterprise Rent-A-Car has been fighting legislation that would make it illegal to rent vehicles that have been recalled by their manufacturers.
But it only took 48 hours for a Change.org petition to force Enterprise, the industry’s most powerful lobbying force and biggest political donor, to the bargaining table.
Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Undue Influence on Safety Agency
by Christopher Jensen
There is no evidence that safety investigations conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have been influenced by former agency officials who now work for automakers or the former auto officials who work for the agency, said a report released on Thursday by the Office of the Inspector General for the Transportation Department, which oversees N.H.T.S.A.
Auto Safety in the Breakdown Lane
By Ben Kelley
2/2/11
A Tougher Car Safety Agency
The United States has done a fairly good job so far of policing the safety of cars and trucks. The number of deaths in traffic accidents dropped to an estimated 34,000 last year — the least since the 1950s. But that is still too many deaths.
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