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Center for Auto Safety Comment: NHTSA Fails the AV Test
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 31, 2020 Contact: Jason Levine, [email protected] or 202-328-7700 NHTSA Fails the AV Test Agency Ignores National Transportation Safety Board Recommendation and Center for Auto Safety Petition for Rulemaking Requiring Driverless Car Companies to Submit Test Data Today, the Center for Auto Safety (Center) submitted its formal response to the National Highway Traffic Safety…
Feds May Stop Selling Unrepaired Recalled Cars
August 20, 2020 By David A. Wood The Center for Auto Safety is congratulating the U.S. House of Representatives for trying to put a stop to sales of government vehicles that have been recalled but never repaired. According to the Center, the General Services Administration (GSA) has been knowingly selling dangerous recalled vehicles to the…
How A Bent Model Y Seat Reveals A Huge Hole In US Safety Standards
“The fact that Tesla, a company considered by many to be on the cutting edge of fuel and driving technology, could choose to use a seatback that is no more protective in a crash than a lawn chair is the perfect example of the need to upgrade our seat safety standards. No matter how good…
Experts Call Elon Musk’s Level 5 Autonomy Claims Absurd
“None of this is on a plane of reality,” said Jason Levine, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety. “It’s an absurd idea at this point in time with the technology available and infrastructure available and complete unwillingness of Tesla to acknowledge its mistakes.” July 20, 2020 by Jay Traugott It’s not coming soon,…
‘Hands free’: Automakers race to next level of not quite self-driving cars
Jason Levine, head of the Center for Auto Safety advocacy group, said NHTSA should develop minimum performance standards. “Even if consumers know what the feature is supposed to do, there’s no standard to be sure it’s even performing as advertised,” he said. July 15, 2020 Ben Klayman, Paul Lienert DETROIT (Reuters) – Autopilot, ProPilot, CoPilot:…
Driver-Monitoring Rules Emerge in Congress
Jason Levine, executive director of the Washington-based Center for Auto Safety, says the bills mark a new approach to safety regulations. “I don’t think previously there have been a bill or bills that specifically looked to require driver-monitoring systems,” Levine says in a phone interview. The consumer-advocacy group supports the proposals. It’s also new for…
Elon Musk Says Tesla Is ‘Very Close’ To Full Autonomy Which Makes Me Think He Doesn’t Really Know What That Means
“Tesla can make as many unverifiable claims as they want, but as we’ve continued to see they are still working hard on getting level two right. Let’s not forget, the other day a level 2 Tesla slammed into a stopped police car in Connecticut, in the middle of a well lined road, on a clear…
Tesla ‘very close’ to Level 5 autonomous technology, Musk says
“They can put out as many press releases as they want, but as we’ve continued to see they are still working hard on getting level two and three right,” said Jason Levine, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, in a statement to Automotive News. “To avoid this charade, and consumer deception, NHTSA could…
Robocar Bill Stays Stalled, but DMS Climbs Hill
July 4, 2020 By Colin Barnden According to Google Maps the drive from San Jose to Capitol Hill is a little under 3,000 miles, so I can understand why the autonomous vehicle (AV) tech industry doesn’t pay much attention to policy and law making in D.C. – it is really far away. When I wrote…
Auto Safety: At the foundation of the House infrastructure bill
06/30/20 By Cathy Chase, Joan Claybrook, Jason Levine and William Wallace This spring, despite the entire country essentially being locked down or working from home and rush hour traffic becoming a distant memory, the long-standing public health crisis of auto fatalities remained. In fact, even with far fewer vehicles on the road, car crash rates…