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The law was named after Joshua Brown, who died in an accident in 2003. [3] Joshua’s parents joined with legislators in an effort to put stronger driver training laws into effect. The end result was The Teenage and Adult Driver Responsibility Act (TADRA), a law that requires teens get specific driving experience and instruction before ...
Systematic motor-vehicle safety efforts began during the 1960s. In 1960, unintentional injuries caused 93,803 deaths; [5] 41% were associated with motor-vehicle crashes. In 1966, after Congress and the general public had become thoroughly horrified by five years of skyrocketing motor-vehicle-related fatality rates, the enactment of the Highway Safety Act created the National Highway Safety ...
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
"Timeline of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards by Year and Notable Technologies" (PDF). National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-06-24; Tests for compliance with various FMVSS (broken has to be fixed) Overview of CMVSS at Transport Canada
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA / ˈ n ɪ t s ə / NITS-ə) [7] is an agency of the U.S. federal government, part of the Department of Transportation, focused on automobile safety regulations.
As required by the federal Highway Safety Act of 1966, all states and territories have adopted substantially similar standards for the vast majority of signs, signals, and road surface markings, based upon the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The organization's name changed in 2002 to the Governors Highway Safety Association. State highway safety programs are regulated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation. GHSA tracks information on current state highway safety laws, including cell phone and text messaging ...
An act to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes: Acronyms (colloquial) FAST Act: Enacted by: the 114th United States Congress: Effective: December 4, 2015: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 114–94 (text) Statutes at Large: 129 Stat. 1312: Codification; Acts amended ...