Word: nhtsa
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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...
Sources: New York Times (4); NHTSA; Chrysler Group; USA Today...
Sources: AP; Toronto Star; NHTSA (2); AP (2); Baltimore...
...comments on rollovers infuriated auto executives: "We have thousands of employees who work on safety issues every day," says Jay Cooney, a GM spokesman. "They wouldn't put their own family or anybody's family in a vehicle they thought was unsafe." Auto lobbyists point out that NHTSA generates its rollover ratings simply by calculating the height of a vehicle's center of gravity in proportion to its width--how top-heavy it is, essentially--not by measuring its performance in the real world. (Which is true, though later this year NHTSA will begin using a more subtle ratings system...
...trucks or SUVs. Because they are so much heavier and higher off the ground, SUVs can ride atop cars when they collide, crushing the smaller vehicles. Last week automakers and a safety group met in Washington to address this issue, known as "crash compatibility." It's a daunting problem: nhtsa research has shown that if a car rams another car on the driver side, the driver of the struck car is 6.6 times as likely to die as the driver of the torpedoing one. But if an SUV hits the car, call the undertaker: the driver...