The new head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says he wants to create two new divisions to help spot auto safety defects earlier.
NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind praised the White House budget proposal that calls for tripling NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation funding.
“We need people, technology and authority,” Rosekind said in an interview Tuesday after an event in Arlington, Va. “It’s not just about the money — it’s about what it gets us. You are talking about doubling the people.”
Rosekind said the funding would let NHTSA create a “trend analysis division so that goes to connecting the dots that everybody talks about.” NHTSA would also create a new separate specialized crash investigation group. Currently, NHTSA has a special crash investigation unit but it is part of NHTSA’s larger statistics and analysis group
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