The board recommended that the National Highway Safety Administration, which makes safety grants to states, develop a program to encourage states to ensure all convicted drivers actually use the devices.
According to the National Highway Safety Administration, nearly one put of every 100 motorists is either texting, emailing, surfing the Web or otherwise using a handheld electronic device at any given time.
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The group said it based that conclusion on a chart it said was used by auto safety regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
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.
The federal agency with some authority to impose safety measures the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration didn't immediately endorse the standards, though a spokesman said NHTSA is interested in ways to reduce the number of drunken drivers.
The safety board also recommend to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that it provide financial incentives to states to carry out the changes.
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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The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration agrees and has declined to issue a recall.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reportedly began investigating the matter after receiving complaints from 42 owners.
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Despite its findings, LaHood said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was considering new regulations to improve safety.
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The recall affects almost 200, 000 SUVs from the 2007-2009 model years, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reviewed safety data, after Firestone claimed Ford's popular sports utility vehicle (SUV) was defective.
The recall affects SUVs made between March 8 and June 7, 2012, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The report, conducted with the help of NASA and released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is here.
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According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data, 2.7% of all driver fatalities occur in situations where vision is obscured.
U.S. prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation, while experts at the National Traffic Highway Safety Administration are on the case too.
In fact, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been tinkering for a few years now with rules for rearview visibility.
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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.
Only recently has the first physical dummy for side-impact crashes--the most dangerous type of crash--been approved by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Motor vehicle accidents already are the leading cause of death among teenagers in the U.S., according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, speeding has been found to be one of the highest contributing factors in traffic crashes.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has set up a program to gather information about car crashes using data from sensor boxes.
Another group, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, is studying cognitive distraction caused by the new technologies with a report expected late this year.
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.
This is more than twice the nine percent increase in overall traffic deaths reported during the same period by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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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.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that arrests for women driving while drunk are on the rise, by about 30% from 1998 to 2007.
He also said the bulletin was apparently ignored or hidden from the public not only by Toyota, but also by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
But the wrecks mask a broader improvement: Overall traffic fatalities have been dropping in a "historic downward trend, " according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The move is to repair a problem with a switch that could increase the risk of a crash, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said.
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