SHARE THIS ARTICLE

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said the Obama administration’s auto safety oversight is going “much more muscular” — even as he called the agency massively underfunded.

He noted that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is restructuring under the leadership of a new administrator, Mark Rosekind, who took over in December.

Foxx referenced the blizzard of new auto technologies and autonomous cars headed to American roads in making the case for more funding.

“NHTSA is going to have to keep up... We have the Jetsons coming into us and we have Flintstones’ resources,” Foxx said, referring to the fact that the agency’s defects investigation budget has fallen by 23 percent over the last decade after adjusting for inflation. “We’ve got to figure out a way to true those two things up.”



Read Article


Who Is The Enemy? NHTSA Resorting To  Draconian Oversight Of Automakers

About the Author

Agent009