NHTSA Oversight of Safety Defects and New Automotive Technologies

Download or read book NHTSA Oversight of Safety Defects and New Automotive Technologies written by Violet Clarke and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) mission is to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce the economic costs due to traffic crashes. As such, NHTSA is responsible for overseeing vehicle safety, a task made more challenging by the increasingly complex electronics and software used in todays vehicles. NHTSAs oversight faces greater scrutiny after a series of high-profile vehicle recalls that highlighted deficiencies with NHTSAs safety-defect investigation processes. This book addresses challenges identified for NHTSAs oversight of safety defects; NHTSAs implementation of a new IT system for safety-defect investigations; and how NHTSA is addressing new technologies in its oversight of vehicle safety, among other things.