Mokas Cirebon , Cirebon – NHTSA Isn’t Moving Fast Enough to Investigate Auto Safety Defects

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• The DOT’s Inspector General has conducted an audit of the way the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) analyzes safety defects in vehicles, and, well, it could be better.
• NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation has been updating its processes, but the new software and office organization weren’t enough to investigate more than a handful (88) of the 75,267 consumer complaints the agency received in 2019.
• The report made 12 recommendations for NHTSA to speed things up and now considers all topics “resolved but open pending implementation.” In other words, time to get [...]