Recent Streetsblog USA posts about NHTSA

NO SURPRISE: Feds Report Double-Digit Increase in Road Deaths in 2021

By Gersh Kuntzman | May 17, 2022 | No Comments

Call it the forgotten pandemic: road fatalities surged by double-digit percentages, including a significant increase in deaths outside of cars, in 2021, according to a new report issued Tuesday by federal authorities.

Advocates: It’s Time To Tell NHTSA to Make Cars Safer For Walkers

By Mike McGinn | Apr 28, 2022 | No Comments

For the first time in U.S. history, federal regulators are taking steps to help ensure vehicles are safer for those outside cars. Here are a few important aspects of this complex issue and how you can comment.

SEE IT: The Deadliest Intersections in the United States for Motorists

By 1point21 Interactive | Mar 14, 2022 | No Comments

A law firm examined 20 years of fatal crash data, analyzing 159,394 fatal crashes that were designated as intersection-related. Less than 1 percent of U.S. intersections even had one fatal crash (147,000). And 1,828 had three or more fatal crashes — less than .01 percent. Check it out.

STUDY: Automatic Braking Doesn’t Work Well on Dark Streets

By Kea Wilson | Feb 4, 2022 | No Comments

And that's where more than one-third of all walking deaths currently happen.

‘It Ain’t 94 Percent’: NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy Discusses the Role of Human Error in Car Crashes

By Kea Wilson | Jan 31, 2022 | No Comments

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy talks to Streetsblog about how why it's so important to say the right things about our national traffic crash crisis.

How Automakers Can Stop Humans from Over-Relying on Automated Safety Tech

By Kea Wilson | Jan 25, 2022 | No Comments

Automakers aren't doing enough to ensure that drivers are ready to take over if their vehicles' self-driving features make mistakes, an auto industry group argues

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