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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA / ˈ n ɪ t s ə / NITS-ə) [8] is an agency of the U.S. federal government, part of the Department of Transportation, focused on transportation safety in the United States.
The Act was the first mandatory federal safety standards for motor vehicles. The Act created the National Highway Safety Bureau (now National Highway Traffic Safety Administration). The Act was one of a number of initiatives by the government in response to increasing number of cars and associated fatalities and injuries on the road following a ...
The United States Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act of 2015 (sometimes referred to as the Low Volume Vehicle Manufacturing Act) directs the NHTSA to establish a program allowing low volume motor vehicle manufacturers to produce a limited number of vehicles annually within a regulatory system that addresses the unique safety and financial issues associated with limited production.
FMVSS are developed and enforced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) pursuant to statutory authorization in the form of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, which is now codified at 49 U.S.C. ch. 301.
Motor vehicle fatalities in the United States are reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The NHTSA only reports deaths that occur on public roads, and does not include parking lots, driveways, and private roads. [4] It also excludes indirect car-related fatalities.
The Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation or TREAD Act (Pub. L. 106–414 (text)) is a United States federal law enacted in the fall of 2000. . This law intended to increase consumer safety through mandates assigned to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTS
In February 2011, the findings of a 10-month-long study conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), aimed to identify the main cause of sudden acceleration in Toyota and Lexus models.
The first NCAP was created in 1979, by the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.This program was established in response to Title II of the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act of 1972, to encourage manufacturers to build safer vehicles and consumers to buy them.