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Center for Auto Safety Response to FCC comment request on Docket No. 19-138
March 5, 2020 The Honorable Ajit Pai, Chairman Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington, DC 2055 Submitted electronically via FCC.gov Dear Chairman Pai: The Center for Auto Safety (“the Center”) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Commission’s request for comments on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking – ET Docket No. 19- 138, Use…
Self-driving firms to California: Let us charge, or you’ll fall behind
But it’s difficult to square the well-funded companies’ rationale, said Jason Levine, director of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Auto Safety. He said in an interview that while he understands companies may want to recoup some of what they spend, “That’s the cost of doing business. It’s hard to feel sorry for Silicon Valley venture…
EasyMile autonomous shuttles barred from carrying passengers
Jason Levine, the executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, said the decision to halt EasyMile’s operations might have been the right move. But he said the announcement, coming on the same day as a National Transportation Safety Board hearing during which NHTSA was faulted for its oversight of Tesla’s partially automated cars, “smacks of a…
Evenflo, Maker of the “Big Kid” Booster Seat, Put Profits Over Child Safety
“There’s nothing more precious than the lives of our children and nothing lower than deceiving parents into thinking a child car seat is safe for your son or daughter, when it isn’t. The federal government is eight years overdue to update its side crash test for child safety seats, and Evenflo appears even more overdue…
Recalled cars being sold by feds now have warning notices. Experts say that’s not enough
“This isn’t a buyer beware situation where disclosure fixes the problem. Disclosure does nothing to address the dangers.” “These are things that are by definition serious. So the idea the federal government is saying ‘Well now, consumer, I’ve told you this is dangerous. It’s on you’ is the height of hypocrisy.” “It’s insane. That’s not…
First vehicle designed not to have human driver OK’d by U.S.
“We don’t understand how NHTSA can possibly justify prioritizing this petition over the dozens of actual safety rules and enforcement actions that continue to lay fallow while they plow corporate selected ground,” – Jason Levine, Executive Director, The Center for Auto Safety by Keith Laing February 6, 2020 Washington — A self-driving delivery vehicle with no…
CAS Letter on Autonomous Vehicles: Promises and Challenges of Evolving Vehicle Technologies Hearing
February 11, 2020 Chairwoman Jan Schakowsky Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce 2125 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Ranking Member Cathy Rodgers Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce 2322 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Re: Autonomous Vehicles: Promises and Challenges of…
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Safety advocate drops lawsuit after service bulletins get posted on NHTSA site
For years, car companies kept consumers in the dark about the existence of vital repairs for defects that often were available for free,” Jason Levine, the center’s executive director, said in a statement. “The center fought for decades against secret warranties and other dirty tricks of the auto manufacturers in order to bring technical service…
Center for Auto Safety comment on RFC on ADAS Test Procedures
March 5, 2020 James C. Owens, Acting Administrator National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Dockett Management Facility U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12-140 Washington, DC 20590-0001 Submitted electronically via www.regulations.gov RE: Request for Comments on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Draft Research Test Procedures; Docket Number NHTSA-2019-0102 Dear Acting…