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More than 30 million US drivers don’t know if they’re at risk from a rare but dangerous airbag blast
Michael Brooks, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety, called on NHTSA and the automakers to release a list of affected models. “Customers, I think, have a right to know if there’s a potential defect in their car, particularly if it’s sitting a few inches from their chest and can explode,” Brooks said.…
Drivers still complain of exploding sunroofs despite closure of federal investigation
“That type of distraction while you’re driving, you know, you’ve got tempered glass chunks all over you and you don’t know what just happened. I think any reasonable person can see that that could pose a pretty serious distraction risk,” said Michael Brooks, executive director of The Center for Auto Safety. By Justin Gray May…
Rep. Raskin Implores Traffic Safety Agency to Prioritize Pedestrian Safety in Vehicle Ratings
WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC), Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) led 27 colleagues in urging the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to prioritize pedestrian protection and visibility from the driver’s seat in federal vehicle safety ratings. The United States is a…
Certain Jeep Cherokees Recalled Due To Chance of Fire, Owners Told To Park Vehicles Outside
“NHTSA doesn’t issue a lot of ‘park outside’ warnings, so when they do, it’s important that owners heed that,” Michael Brooks, the executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, said. By Tom Jones May 16, 2023 A voluntary safety recall announced Tuesday highlights a problem some Jeep Grand Cherokee owners have been dealing with…
Car thieves are still driving off with Kia and Hyundai cars, despite security fix
The automakers’ service campaign to install the software should have been more aggressively pursued, said Michael Brooks, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety. By Tom Krisher, Associated Press May 9, 2023 Nearly three months ago, Hyundai and Kia unveiled software that was designed to thwart an epidemic of thefts of their vehicles, caused by…
US probes complaint that woman was trapped in flaming SUV
Michael Brooks, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety, says drivers should try to pull up the plunger first to escape if their vehicle’s electrical system malfunctions. Beyond that, escape is difficult because many windows now have plastic laminated between two layers of glass and are difficult to shatter. He suggests keeping a…
EVs are much heavier than gas vehicles, and that’s posing safety problems
“Since we’re seeing pedestrian and roadway fatalities at record levels, the introduction of more weight into crashes via EVs will complicate any attempts to reduce the ongoing fatality crisis that has showed no signs of abating,” Center for Auto Safety executive director Michael Brooks tells Axios in an email. By Nathan Bomey April 28, 2023…
Stolen Hyundai used in crash that kills one
“Kia and Hyundai had not been installing immobilizers on most of their vehicles for decades before that,” said Michael Brooks, the Center for Auto Safety’s executive director. “(That) opened them up to this problem: a hack of some sort that allows anyone to break into a vehicle, open up the steering column, insert a USB…
Tesla Cleared by Jury in Autopilot Crash Suit in Los Angeles
“Regardless of the verdict of the Hsu case, there remains a question about whether that technology is safe, whether it’s safe to allow consumers to enable it in certain circumstances,” said Michael Brooks, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety. By Malathi Nayak and Joe Schneider Tesla Inc. was found by a Los Angeles…