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...Joan Claybrook The President of Public Citizen and former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) talks about the merits of having black boxes in cars...
...head of NHTSA during the Carter Administration and now the president of Public Citizen, Joan Claybrook has been at the forefront of efforts to improve auto safety over the past few decades. With NHTSA due to issue new rules concerning black boxes for cars, Claybrook spoke to TIME's Margot Roosevelt about why she thinks the requiring all cars to have data recorders is such a good idea - and why the privacy concerns are being overblown...
...CLAYBROOK: More than 40,000 people die each year on the highways. Data from event data recorders (EDRs) is crucial for safety engineers. The EDRs record only a few seconds of data if a crash occurs - otherwise they continually erase the data they register. NHTSA proposes to standardize some of the elements that an EDR records. Also, automakers don't have the same downloading systems, but there should be a standard system...
...regulations are likely to make the black boxes better known and therefore even more controversial. Some consumer advocates, such as Public Citizen's Joan Claybrook, want tougher rules compelling automakers to install EDRs in every car because objective crash data will lead to the design of safer cars and highways. Privacy activists want the government to prevent police and insurance companies from checking drivers' black boxes without permission. "We have a surveillance monster growing in our midst," says Barry Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union. "These black boxes are going to get more sophisticated and take on new capabilities...
...federal licensing system for all purchases of explosives. Such licensing is now required only when explosives are shipped across state lines. Dozens of truck-safety requirements mandated by Congress have been overlooked in the past few years by federal regulators, says longtime highway-safety advocate Joan Claybrook. "They really haven't paid attention" to trucks, she says. Perhaps they will...