Issues
Walden v. Chrysler Trial
On March 6, 2012, four year old Remington Cole Walden was killed despite riding in a child booster seat to protect him when the 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by his aunt was struck from behind and engulfed in flames.
CAS STATEMENT ON $150 MILLION WALDEN JEEP FIRE JUDGMENT – 4/2/15
Safety Agency Defends Guardrail Test
Click here for the New York Times article Safety Agency Defends Guardrail Test – 3/15/15
The federal agency charged with investigating a potentially dangerous guardrail defended its methods of analysis, after it was criticized for giving a guardrail a passing grade in a crash test despite severe damage to the driver’s door.
Dr. Ronald A. Belt’s Sudden Acceleration Papers
Dr. Ronald A. Belt: Why I Publish Here How Brakes Can Fail During a Sudden Acceleration Incident – 11/27/24 A Cause of SUA Common to All Vehicles with Electronic Throttles – 7/20/24 EDR Accelerator Pedal Data Can Be Wrong With This Cause of Sudden Acceleration – 6/1/23 A Cause of Sudden Acceleration in Battery Powered…
U.S. reviewing seat belts on school buses
Arlington, Va. — The new head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is reviewing the government’s longtime opposition to mandating safety belts on school buses and is looking at the issue on commercial buses.
In a Detroit News interview after an event on school bus safety at an elementary school here, NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind said he has convened a group within the agency to study the issue that NHTSA has been reviewing since 1977.
CAS Comments to FTC on Used Car Rule Regulatory Review, March 17, 2015
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