Word: nhtsa
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...relaxed federal vigil in health and safety has not been accurately computed. By their reckoning, the American public has come out a loser. "Health and safety laws were passed by Congress to save lives and reduce injuries," declares Joan Claybrook, director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) under President Carter. "The Reagan Administration is doing just the opposite...
...that one of the scuttled rules-a requirement that new cars have a dashboard gauge warning drivers of low tire pressure-would have saved at least $300 in better gas mileage from properly inflated tires. Claybrook, who has now resumed duties as an aide to Ralph Nader, charges that "NHTSA has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Detroit manufacturers...
...rule in question, issued in 1977 by the NHTSA under the Carter Administration, required the installation of automatic crash-protection gear starting with large-and medium-size automobiles as of this autumn. Not long after Ronald Reagan took office, NHTSA Administrator Raymond Peck postponed that deadline for a year, claiming that the Government needed more time to study the regulation. In addition, the agency was concerned about the auto industry's deepening financial troubles and was eager to help give automakers at least some relief from the added design and manufacturing costs that would have resulted from installing...
...move was promptly attacked by a coalition of outraged insurance companies and various consumer groups, which petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to overturn the action taken by Peck and the NHTSA. The coalition told the court that passive restraints could save some 9,000 lives a year on the nation's roads and highways...
...NHTSA has until Oct. 1 to say whether automakers will be able to meet the September 1983 deadline. Meanwhile the agency is free to issue a new set of auto-safety standards, subject to court review. The other choices open to overturn the appeals-court ruling are to seek congressional legislation that would repeal the regulation and, more likely, to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court...