Finally, we noted how well each vehicle performed in crash tests conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
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In May, auto industry officials and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Energy Department discussed potential dangers faced by first responders from electrical charges produced by hybrid and electric cars.
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration agrees and has declined to issue a recall.
Drowsiness causes an estimated 100, 000 car crashes in the U.S. each year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and kills 1, 500.
This is essential even to meet an upwardly revised 35.5 mpg 2016 standards established by the EPA, California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as recently as 2010.
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The report, conducted with the help of NASA and released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is here.
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It shows that vehicle traffic deaths plunged from the 1920s until 1970, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was formed, and has improved slowly ever since.
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And six federal agencies the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Agriculture, and the EPA created Recalls.gov, to alert the public to unsafe, hazardous, or defective products and up-to-date consumer safety information.
Power and Associates, attributes to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration safety standards that went into effect for the 2009 model year that were intended to help reduce whiplash injuries in rear-end collisions.
The second company has to issue a certification that the car meets National Highway Traffic Safety Administration safety standards for new vehicles, and that all safety equipment is working as required before it can be sold to the public, said Henry Jasny, an attorney with the Washington-based nonprofit Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety.
The recall affects SUVs made between March 8 and June 7, 2012, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The Transition Roadable Aircraft, basically a flying car, recently received clearance from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to operate both on land and in the air.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration officials have shown interest in autonomous-driving technology and the agency is planning research to better understand the potential safety benefits.
Another interesting statistic that challenges conventional wisdom: Ford recalled 3.3 million vehicles in 2011, almost as many as Honda (3.9 million) and Toyota (3.5 million), according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
According to stats from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the I-95 corridor between the southeast and New England includes five of the 10 U.S. states carrying the highest fines for speeding--Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland and New Hampshire.
Your Prius is too quiet, at least according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) officials who announced new federal rules that will require hybrid and electric vehicles to make more noise.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it's checking into complaints about the 2004 to 2011 Chevrolet Malibu and the 2007 to 2009 Saturn Aura.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that in 2010 18% of injury accidents (3, 092 deaths and 416, 000 injuries) involved driver distraction eating, grooming, talking on a cellphone or texting.
Every major automaker has skin in the electric vehicle game, so the current National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation into Chevy Volt battery fires potentially threatens the whole industry, not just Chevrolet and its parent, General Motors.
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