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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...
Sources: New York Times (4); NHTSA; Chrysler Group; USA Today...
Sources: AP; Toronto Star; NHTSA (2); AP (2); Baltimore...
...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...