Issues
Melting Dashboards: Consumers Demand Answers, Recall From Nissan
“Nissan’s refusal to do the right thing has been dangerous and amounts to ignoring the safety concerns of a blinding glare in addition to the unacceptable cosmetic damage that results. As we enter the summer…Cars get hot in the sun and Nissan’s resistance to recalling and repairing vehicles with this obvious flaw will now continue…
GM seeks to avoid Takata recalls for fourth straight year
Jason Levine, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, a nonprofit consumer group, said NHTSA appears to be paralyzed in the GM case. Information provided by GM thus far isn’t sufficient for NHTSA to approve the petition, said Levine, who questions the validity of some tests done for GM. He questioned the need for…
Driverless Car Bill May Return to Senate – Soon
Jason Levine, the executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, took issue with the original AV START Act for requiring few new standards on issues such as cybersecurity, crash data reporting, and safety. “To continue this hands-off approach only encourages a race to the bottom by non-traditional automakers getting their immature technology on the…
Tesla Driver Sleeps Behind Wheel on California Highway
We join NBC Nightly News to discuss the dangers of treating Driver Assist technology as if it were “driverless.”
Why are there so many unresolved car recalls?
We join WBRC to discuss why there are so many unrepaired recalled cars on the road. Click here to see the story
Woman's Hyundai SUV catches fire, raises questions
Jason Levine, the Executive Director of the Center for Auto Safety, a watchdog consumer non-profit, said while there is no current recall on the 2019 Tucson, this latest unexplained fire should be scrutinized. “What we would like to see is the manufacturers, Hyundai and KIA and the National Highway Safety Administration do is more actively…
'It kept blowing up!': Another Kia catches fire, this time in Osceola County driveway
“Try to get to the bottom of what’s going on here and what is an appropriate remedy for people who have had these fires happen to them,” Jason Levine, of Center For Auto Safety said. June 6, 2019 OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — A Kia Sportage caught fire in a driveway in Osceola County. The fire…
The star of 'Aladdin' claims a defect in his Tesla Model 3 led to his car wreck, and it comes from a problem area the company has known about for years
What safety advocates like Levine are looking for, though, is more transparency — and that goes for all automakers. They want to see fewer safety critical issues treated as performance or quality repairs, and they want more defects reported to third parties like the NHTSA. “From everything we’ve seen we can determine that Tesla’s been…
Car safety takes a back seat for passengers in the rear
“In reality in a crash, rear-seat passengers are often at greater risk than front-seat passengers,” he said. “Over the past few decades the front seat has seen significant safety improvements, including air bags and seat belt reminders. In an era with rideshare vehicles containing far more backseat passengers than ever before, the time to upgrade…
GM faces blowback on federal driverless car petition
Jason Levine, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, a Washington, D.C.-based consumer advocacy nonprofit, said GM’s petition failed to demonstrate its fully self-driving cars match the safety levels required for human-operated vehicles. “Despite a petition of 97 pages, and 78 footnotes, GM has provided no data that establishes…the absolute value of safety” of…