Issues
1 in 6 Uber and Lyft Vehicles Have Open Recalls
“Consumer advocates say Uber and Lyft, with their billion-dollar valuations and technological prowess, can—and should—do far more to ensure consumers are kept safe, and reduce the open recall rate. For example, some advocates point out that Uber and Lyft could use VINs to identify and ban vehicles with open recalls from operating on their platforms.…
GM's Driverless Car Strategy Questioned By Safety Group
“The path to the successful introduction of autonomous vehicle technology in the consumer marketplace must be paved with objective, measurable, repeatable safety demonstrations – in simulation, on test tracks, and in controlled environments. The risks of failure on this journey are not only to the people who will be in danger from unproven and unregulated…
Risks of Buying a Used Car and What the Dealership Isn't Telling You
The Center speaks with NBC Los Angeles about the dangers of buying a used recall car
Auto safety regulator scraps its proposal to prevent unintended acceleration
But Jason Levine, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety, said it will take years to find out whether automakers installed the systems due to the threat of a regulation or could remove them without the regulation pending. “What we know today is that with no requirement, there is no performance standard for…
Despite deaths, injuries and recalls, air bags still save lives
“The horror of this type of defect is that you don’t need it until you need it, and when you do need it, it’s now going to be hurting you,” said Jason Levine, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety in Washington, D.C. “A defective safety product is just as terrible as defective brakes…
Safety Experts Alarmed by Mail Trucks Bursting Into Flames
“Non-crash fires are serious and rare and should always be taken seriously,” said Jason Levine, executive director at the Center for Auto Safety, a consumer-advocacy group. by Cyndia Zwahlen May 13, 2019 Mail trucks are bursting into flames at a rate that would trigger a massive recall if they were passenger vehicles. More than…
Self-Driving Cars Will Come In Different Flavors, Later Not Sooner, Experts Tell Consumer Forum
The current regulatory framework for traditional cars won’t work for self-driving vehicles, asserted Center for Auto Safety Executive Director Jason Levine, professing technology and enforcement don’t always work at the same pace. “People say self driving vehicles are just computers on wheels. We don’t regulate computers very well.” Levine said. by Ted Knutson May 10,…
Lawsuit: Ford hid Focus, Fiesta transmission problems — then blamed customers
“There are some basics that we all expect to not have to worry about with our cars: Do they start? Are they safe? Will it drive as if it was built in the 21st Century and not as if it had a transmission built by the first assembly line conceived of by Henry Ford?” Levine…
Bay Area man survives car fire, Hyundai and Kia now under investigation
Click here to read the story from ABC7 News San Francisco
Federal Regulators Expand Investigation into Airbag Controls
It does not appear that the industry has learned its lesson from Takata. You don’t need to wait for a body count to take proactive measures to get defective parts out of your vehicle.