“They’re just not ready for prime time,” said Michael Brooks with the Center for Auto Safety. Brooks told the I-Team he believes releasing any beta feature to the public is dangerous. “They’re releasing them too early before they’ve been, you know, validated as safe – before they’ve been validated to work properly,” he said. By…

Michael Brooks, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety, said the previous investigation of Autopilot didn’t look at why the Teslas weren’t seeing and stopping for emergency vehicles. “Before they were kind of putting the onus on the driver rather than the car,” he said. “Here they’re saying these systems are not capable…

“After that date, even the fastest recall repairs are going to require a month or more delay during which time the manufacturer may be developing and testing the recall remedy, possibly designing new parts, and getting parts and repair instructions to dealers,” said Michael Brooks, head of The Center for Auto Safety. “A certain amount…

Center for Auto Safety Executive Director Michael Brooks said the spike in traffic fatalities started in 2020 and peaked in 2022. “When COVID hit, we saw a pretty significant jump,” Brooks said, pointing to a graph of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration crash data. By Angie Moreschi, Nathan Aaron, and Mike Griffith September 27, 2024 Driving…

“The widespread practice of selling these dangerous vehicles without first fixing obvious and identified safety hazards unacceptably shifts the burden from manufacturers and used car sellers onto the party least equipped to address the danger – the consumer,” Michael Brooks, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, said in a statement. He described the outlook…

Michael Brooks, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety, said it would be wise for owners of the Jeeps under investigation to park them outdoors until the matter is resolved because NHTSA is citing a risk of property damage. “If I owned one of these vehicles, I certainly wouldn’t want to park it…

Musk, who has acknowledged that his past predictions for the use of autonomous driving proved too optimistic, in 2019 promised a fleet of autonomous vehicles by the end of 2020. Five years later, many who follow the technology say they doubt it can work across the U.S. as promised. “It’s not even close, and it’s not…

For Immediate Release: August 27, 2024 Contact: Carina Figliuzzi, [email protected] Congresswoman Scanlon Introduces Bill to Prevent Pedestrian Accidents and Deaths Over the past 15 years, pedestrian deaths caused by car accidents have risen by 80 percent. Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) introduced the Pedestrian Protection Act to address the rapid rise in…

“It doesn’t appear to be a perfect software fix,” Michael Brooks told Arizona’s Family, a Phoenix television station, in May, telling the station that it’s unclear why certain cars were still susceptible to theft. “It could be thieves are finding other ways to steal these cars,” he told the station. “It could also be that sometimes consumers…

“It’s a critical concern now, and in five years we’re going to have even more vehicles reaching the age where they are at a critical concern…. As long as these air bags are out there on the road, we are going to see tragedies happen.” – Michael Brooks, Executive Director of The Center for Auto…