National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Gov. Newsom Vetoes Bill to Require Caltrans Study Top Crash Locations on State Highways

September 25, 2024 3:30 amSeptember 25, 2024 3:31 am

Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed Senator Kelly Seyarto’s (R-Murrieta) Senate Bill 936, which would have tasked the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) with publishing a study that identifies the top 15 locations in the state highway system with the highest...

No Technology for Kill Switch…Yet – and Don’t Call it a Kill Switch

December 17, 2023 9:19 amDecember 17, 2023 9:19 am

Buried in the massive 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act were a few lines calling for the installation in all new cars starting in 2026 of a system that would detect whether or not the driver was drunk and, if...

Fatal Tesla Crashes Under Federal Investigation Over ‘Autopiloting’ Feature

January 3, 2020 3:18 pm

Three fatal crashes involving Teslas that possibly used the ‘autopilot’ feature are now under federal investigation. Three deaths in less than a month The crashes in December, which happened in Southern California, Indiana, and Connecticut, caused the deaths of 3...