Federal Report Says NHTSA Is So Screwed Up It Can No Longer Perform It's Basic Job

According to federal investigators, the US auto safety regulator – the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – is riddled with internal issues that have rendered it unable to act and protect the public from fatal auto safety problems, including the defective ignition switches made by GM.

An official report made by the US Department of Transportation, reportedly seen by Reuters, sees the NHTSA unable to gather the needed data to identify crucial safety occurrences, does a not so great job of screening the data it does have and has failed on numerous occasions to hold carmakers responsible for the problems that have plagued with recalls the 265 million cars and trucks on US roads.

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7msynthetic - 6/22/2015 7:16:23 PM

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Not sure why they need money to fund their budgets when they took $1.2 Billion from Toyota.

PUGPROUD - 6/22/2015 8:06:02 PM

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And the progressives want the government to run everything...the VA, the IRS, NHTSA, Social Security, Medicare, etc etc. How are they worki9ng out!!!!!

CarCrazedinCali - 6/23/2015 7:15:50 PM

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perhaps they should be incorporated into the IHHS agency or just dissolved then