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WEBRelease Date. NHTSA Launches Labor Day Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Campaign. The 13,524 alcohol-impaired-driving fatalities represented one-third of all traffic fatalities in 2022. Washington, DC.
NHTSA Proposes Pedestrian Head Protection Standard | NHTSA
WEBSep 9, 2024 · The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is advancing pedestrian safety by proposing a new rule to reduce fatalities and serious injuries among pedestrians struck by vehicles. The proposed rule would establish a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard requiring new passenger vehicles be designed to reduce the risk of serious-to-fatal injuries in child and adult pedestrian crashes.
U.S. to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicles in 5 ... - NPR
WEBApr 30, 2024 · The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration unveiled the final version of the new regulation on Monday and called it the most significant safety rule in the past two decades.
NHTSA starts work on rule that could require new cars to detect …
WEBDec 13, 2023 · The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday that such technology could help end a problem that kills thousands of people in the U.S. each year.
Self-Driving and Driver-Assist Technology Linked to Hundreds of …
WEBJun 15, 2022 · The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released data on 10 months of crashes involving cars with automated components. A few were fatal. Tesla Autopilot is among the advanced...
NTSB Calls for Technology to Reduce Speeding in All New Cars
WEBWASHINGTON (Nov. 14, 2023) – The National Transportation Safety Board investigation into a multivehicle collision in North Las Vegas, Nevada, last year that resulted in nine fatalities has led the board to recommend a requirement for intelligent speed assistance technology in all new cars.
Automated tech factored in 392 car crashes in 11 months ... - NPR
WEBJun 15, 2022 · There were five deaths and six serious injuries in the 392 crashes reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from July 2021 to May 2022. Two-thirds of the crashes...
NTSB Chair: NHTSA Action on Automatic Emergency Braking …
WEBWASHINGTON (May 31, 2023) – NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy released the following statement in response to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s announcement on a notice of proposed rulemaking Wednesday that all new passenger cars and light trucks would be required to have automatic emergency braking (AEB) and pedestrian AEB ...
US seeks information from Tesla on how it ... - Associated Press News
WEBMay 7, 2024 · Investigators with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have concerns about whether the recall remedy worked because Tesla has reported 20 crashes since the remedy was sent out as an online software update in December.