Biden to nominate NHTSA's acting head to lead the safety agency
For much of the past six years, NHTSA has been without a Senate-confirmed administrator. U.S. traffic deaths have risen sharply since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Road deaths jumped 10.5% in 2021 to 42,915, the highest number killed on American roads in a single year since 2005.
In January, Carlson said the agency was studying the impact of vehicle size on roadway safety and was"very concerned" about the"degree to which heavier vehicles contribute to greater fatality rates." The agency is"investing a lot of resources" in the Tesla probe, Carlson said in January, declining to commit to a timeframe for resolving the probe."We're moving as quickly as we can, but we also want to be careful and make sure we have all the information we need."
In June, NHTSA upgraded its defect probe into 830,000 Tesla vehicles with driver assistance system Autopilot and involving crashes with parked emergency vehicles.NHTSA plans to propose in April new fuel economy standards for the 2027 model year and beyond, which could dramatically reshapeIn March 2020, former President Donald Trump's Republican administrationback the standards to only 1.
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