House Panel Says NHTSA Has No Clue What they Are Doing And Can No Longer Keep Public Safe

The agency responsible for safety on the nation’s roads was years late in detecting a deadly problem with General Motors cars and lacks the expertise to oversee increasingly complex vehicles, congressional Republicans charged Tuesday in a new report.

The report by a House committee’s GOP majority raised serious questions about the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s ability to keep the public safe, and came as the Senate was convening a hearing on the safety agency’s shortcomings.

Safety regulators should have discovered GM’s faulty ignition switches seven years before the company recalled 2.6 million cars to fix the deadly problem, the report concluded.
It also said the agency didn’t understand how air bags worked, lacked accountability and failed to share information internally.

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Sciros - 9/18/2014 2:05:25 PM

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In other news, politicians love to do a bit of posturing when they have someone they feel they can blame, whether or not there's a point to it.

MDarringer - 9/18/2014 8:00:33 PM

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It's time to kill the NHTSA and the wasteful spending allotted to it. The IIHS can do the job better.

40flash - 9/19/2014 10:56:03 PM

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Probably the most dangerous thing about our freeway system besides texting while driving is the horrible legacy of the 55 mile per hour speed limit. In case you are not old enough to remember what it was like, before the 55, there was this thing called lane discipline. In most places people considered the left lane to be a passing lane. We stayed out of it to leave it open for overtaking. After the 55 people drive in any lane they want at any speed they want thus setting up an auto-x of people trying to find a way around the slow people. Very unsafe but it is today's reality. IF the NHTSA had ANY clue what they were doing they would have done something to fix this with public messages and incentive for local law enforcement to crack down on left lane bandits. The world would be a much safer place.