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Fed Panel Wants to Confront the Role of Aggressive Auto Advertising in U.S. Road Deaths
A horrific car crash has federal safety officials calling for systematic responses to traffic violence — including the aggressive car ads that may inspire motorists to hit the gas.
November 28, 2023
Feds Take Baby Step Towards Maybe, Possibly Improving the Car Safety Rating Program
Europe is so far ahead of us on this.
May 26, 2023
National Safety Board Chair Discusses Vision Zero and the Problems of Heavy EVs
"We have to be careful that we aren’t also creating unintended consequences: more death on our roads."
January 18, 2023
Study: SUVs Are Indeed Death Machines for Children, Blacks
Maybe the 354th story with this headline will finally change some minds — or some federal regulations.
July 7, 2022
‘It Ain’t 94 Percent’: NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy Discusses the Role of Human Error in Car Crashes
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy talks to Streetsblog about how why it's so important to say the right things about our national traffic crash crisis.
February 2, 2022
Federal Investigation into Tesla Autopilot Defects Could Pull 765K Cars From U.S. Roads
And some advocates are wondering whether there might be even more regulation for Elon Musk's brainchild on the horizon, if not the autonomous vehicle industry at large.
August 19, 2021
THEY’RE HAMMERING HANK! DOT Commissioner Goes off Message and Says He Favors Helmet Laws
Activists were quick to pounce on Gutman as ill-informed and misfocused, given that the DOT should be focused solely on making roads safer, not on individual behavior.
April 15, 2021
Protecting Non-Motorists Makes NTSB ‘Most Wanted List’ For the First Time
For the first time in its 54-year history, the transportation sector's most influential investigative agency wants America to focus on protecting vulnerable road users. What took so long?
April 7, 2021
CYCLE OF RAGE: Mayor Chooses Politics over Facts in Backing NTSB Helmet Recommendation
For the second time in as many months, Mayor de Blasio has willfully ignored facts to align himself with an anti-biking policy that would dramatically reduce cycling.
November 6, 2019
SURPRISE! Federal Panel Seeks Mandatory Helmet Laws
A federal safety board issued a surprise recommendation for mandatory bike helmet laws in all 50 states — unanimously approving a last-minute resolution that had not been recommended by the board's own staff.
November 5, 2019
