Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
Advocates and a group of coalition partners have sent letters to House and Senate appropriators making the case for funding levels that will help the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) fulfill its safety mission in the Fiscal Year 2025 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Budget. Read letters to House and Senate.
read moreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement on Final Rule to Require Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) with Pedestrian Detection for All New Passenger Vehicles and Light Trucks Action by Bipartisan Congress and Biden Administration will save hundreds of lives, thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars every year. April 29, 2024 | (Washington, DC): In a momentous leap forward for roadway safety, the…
read moreAdvocates urges Governor Kim Reynolds to veto Senate File (SF) 2109. This measure expands an exemption to the graduated driver licensing (GDL) law for a special minors’ restricted license and will increase the number of inexperienced and unsupervised drivers on state roads. It weakens the current GDL law and threatens the safety of novice teen drivers and all who share…
read moreAdvocates urges California to enact Assembly Bill (AB) 2385. This legislation will improve California’s graduated driver licensing (GDL) law by requiring older teen and young adult novice drivers up to age 21 to participate in the state’s GDL program. AB 2385 is critically needed as the number of young drivers (aged 15 to 20) involved in fatal crashes in 2021…
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