2013

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has grown concerned about the increasing numbers of drivers above the age of 65 who are going to be on the roads in the coming years.  There were 35 million such drivers last year, which is up from the 21 million that were on the road in 2003. This… read more

Not long ago, Tesla Motors came under fire from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration after the automaker claimed to have achieved a safety rating of 5.4 stars, well beyond the five star maximum handed out by the safety agency.  The NHTSA took issue with their claim, saying that it simply wasn’t possible for a… read more

On the heels of three separate fires involving the Tesla Model S, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced its intention to look into the matter to determine if the incidents are indicative of an underlying safety issue. The CEO of Tesla claims that it was his company that actually requested that the NHTSA… read more

The government shutdown is already having an impact on the safety of the American public.  Among those agencies that are being partially shuttered as a result of the stalemate in Washington are the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the Food and Drug Administration.  The repercussions for lack of action… read more

Safety advocates are none too happy with a decision yesterday from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to recommend rear-view cameras as a safety feature in all new vehicles.  To the uninitiated, this would seem like a move in the right direction in terms of safety.  However, advocates have been urging the NHTSA to take… read more

When compiling safety ratings, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rewards the car being rated with up to five stars in a variety of categories.  Five stars is supposed to be the highest rating that a car can receive, but according to a press release from Tesla, the Model S electric vehicle achieved a rating… read more

We’ve brought you plenty of news dedicated to Chrysler’s recent refusal to comply with a voluntary recall of Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty vehicles requested by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.  As a new report shows us, even though this move isn’t without precedent, a victory by Chrysler could call into question the NHTSA’s… read more

In most cases, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asks a company to voluntarily issue a recall, compliance isn’t far off.  In fact, you have to go all the way back to 1996 to find an instance where an automaker decided to challenge the directives of the agency. Chrysler was at the center of… read more

Things have been somewhat quiet on the autonomous vehicle front, but that doesn’t mean that regulators have forgotten about this promising technology.  Self-driving cars from Google seem to be more a matter of when than if, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the United States Department of Transportation want to make sure that… read more

A study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration highlights the chances of sustaining a fatality in an automobile collision in men versus women.  If a female is in her twenties, she has a nearly 26% higher chance of dying in a car crash when compared with a male of the same age.  However, the… read more

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration may soon reconfigure its ratings system slightly to take into account how certain subsets of the population might react during a crash.  When a new automobile comes onto the market, the NHTSA rates it as part of something known as the New Car Assessment Program.  Since 1978, a vehicle… read more

We’re still in the midst of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and agencies across the country are doing what they can to spread the word about the threat posed when a driver uses his or her cellphone or engages in some other distracting behavior.  Over the weekend, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released a… read more