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Topic: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Traffic on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near Los Angeles International Aiprort (Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

Traffic agency is "asleep at the wheel"

Myron Levin, Eli Wolfe - FairWarning
Traffic on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near Los Angeles International Aiprort (Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

In battle against "the highway disease"

Myron Levin, Eli Wolfe - FairWarning
Waymo's fully self-driving Chrysler Pacifica (FCA)

Self-driving rule proposal draws fire

Susan Carpenter - FairWarning
A crash test dummy sits inside a Toyota Coralla as it is shown during the 2017 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, January 10, 2017. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

Star safety ratings in breakdown lane

Eric Kulisch - FairWarning
In this 2015 photo provided by his neighbor, Krista Kitchen, Joshua Brown stands by his new Tesla electric car near his home in Canton, Ohio. Brown died in an accident in Florida on May 7, 2016 in the first fatality from a car using self-driving technology. According to statements by the government and the automaker, his vehicle's cameras didn't make a distinction between the white side of a turning tractor-trailer and the brightly lit sky while failing to automatically activate its brakes. (Krista Kitchen via AP) (AP)

Dubious record for road regulators

Eli Wolfe - FairWarning
This March 18, 2015 photo shows the load index, 140/137, and speed rating, M, on a popular size semi-tractor trailer tire, at a truck tire shop in Houston. The M speed rating indicates that 81 mph is the maximum speed at which this tire can carry a load weighing 5,512 pounds at the recommended air pressure. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Federal regulators alter tire crash data

Eli Wolfe - FairWarning
(AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Exhaust complaints on Ford Explorers

Christopher Jensen

Myron Levin - FairWarning
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