Who Is The Enemy? NHTSA Resorting To Draconian Oversight Of Automakers

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said the Obama administration’s auto safety oversight is going “much more muscular” — even as he called the agency massively underfunded.

He noted that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is restructuring under the leadership of a new administrator, Mark Rosekind, who took over in December.

Foxx referenced the blizzard of new auto technologies and autonomous cars headed to American roads in making the case for more funding.

“NHTSA is going to have to keep up... We have the Jetsons coming into us and we have Flintstones’ resources,” Foxx said, referring to the fact that the agency’s defects investigation budget has fallen by 23 percent over the last decade after adjusting for inflation. “We’ve got to figure out a way to true those two things up.”

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TheSteve - 7/9/2015 1:36:23 PM

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NHTSA says "...We have the Jetsons coming into us and we have Flintstones’ resources..."

That sounds to me like another way of saying "we need a mountain of money" and here's my justification. Whenever I see an enterprise or even a department facing big challenges, I often hear "we're underfunded" or "we're under-resourced." Typically, the problems aren't solved by throwing more money at them. They root causes of their ailments are usually found in their thinking -> decisions -> actions (processes).

As Albert Einstein once said, you can't solve a problem with the same thinking that created it.

MDarringer - 7/9/2015 1:48:28 PM

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The NHTSA needs a complete rethink so that it is not a political post as it is with te Obama bin Barack regime. It must also not be a shill of the insurance industry like the IIHS.

Car4Life - 7/9/2015 9:26:58 PM

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Really? Obama "bin" Barack regime...every time I consider giving the republicans a chance, I'm conveniently reminded of the ignorance that runs wild among some of its members...sigh

MDarringer - 7/10/2015 10:23:58 AM

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Car4Life you'd never give Republicans a chance anyway, so stop pretending you're more evolved and own that you are just another bitter, partisan Libtard.

Car4Life - 7/10/2015 11:59:05 AM

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But who sounds more bitter here, you or I? hmmmm...