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Congressional Study Faults Highway Agency Over Testing of Guardrails

A congressional watchdog on Thursday accused federal highway officials of poor oversight of the safety testing of…

July 11, 2016
NHTSA Report to Congress: “Electronic Systems Performance in Passenger Motor Vehicles”

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July 7, 2016
Trucks Are Getting More Dangerous And Drivers Are Falling Asleep At The Wheel. Thank Congress.

The inside story of how the trucking industry and politicians have conspired to make our highways less…

April 18, 2016
GAO Report: Enhanced Project Management of New Information Technology Could Help Improve NHTSA’s Oversight of Safety Defects

Click here to view the GAO Report What GAO Found The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)…

March 26, 2016
CAS Letter to Maryland Environment and Transportation Committee in Support of HB982

Click here to view the CAS Letter on Maryland HB 982 – March 2, 2016

March 4, 2016
Road Warrior: Safety advocates contend highway bill won’t cut it

Safety first!

Perhaps Congress could grasp what that accident-prevention slogan meant when it was coined during the golden age of railroading in 1873, a time when the federal government managed to scrape by on a $290 million budget. But this week, safety priorities seem open to question as House and Senate conferees attempt to patch together a transportation budget that would spend a few hundred times more each year than it took old Ulysses S. Grant to run the whole country back then.

November 18, 2015
Vehicle Safety Inspections: Improved DOT Communication Could Better Inform State Programs

Vehicle Safety Inspections:
Improved DOT Communication Could Better Inform State Programs

GAO-15-705, Published: Aug 25, 2015. Publicly Released: Aug 25, 2015.

October 21, 2015
House Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing: Examining Ways to Improve Vehicle and Roadway Safety

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 Wednesday, October 21, 2015 – 10:00am

October 21, 2015
Laws Hinder Prosecutors in Charging G.M. Employees in Ignition Defect

From the factory floor to the corporate suite, employees at General Motors saw indications of a deadly ignition defect and failed to disclose the problem to the government.

Yet even now that prosecutors are closing in on a criminal case against the automaker, their effort to charge individual employees at the center of the case has hit an obstacle: legal loopholes that the auto industry helped create. And while some G.M. employees still face investigation, the prospect of sweeping indictments across the company’s ranks has faded, according to people briefed on the investigation.

July 22, 2015
Senate Committee’s No Vote Incenses Lawmakers Seeking Auto Safety Reforms

WASHINGTON — The push to impose criminal penalties on auto executives who fail to disclose deadly automobile defects hit another roadblock last week when a Senate committee voted down such a proposal.

Lawmakers and safety advocates who were pushing to institute criminal penalties for such behavior expressed dismay as that and a series of other auto safety reforms — including barring used-car dealers from selling vehicles with unrepaired recalls — also failed to proceed.

July 21, 2015