Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
For today’s markup in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Advocates has released a Safety Scorecard to urge support for amendments to transportation reconciliation language (pursuant to H. Con. Res. 14, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2025) to improve safety on our roadways. View the full Scorecard here.
read moreAdvocates and other safety organizations have joined forces to support Assembly Bill (AB) 366 which will address California’s drunk driving crisis by protecting and expanding California’s ignition interlock device (IID) program to prevent impaired driving and save lives. California’s current IID program is set to expire at the end of 2025. If the Legislature fails to act, California will become…
read moreAdvocates has called on Washington Governor Bob Ferguson to sign into law House Bill (HB) 1596 to establish an intelligent speed assistance (ISA) program for certain reckless driving and excessive speeding offenders. Installation of an ISA device by program participants would be a condition to drive during license suspension to prevent speeding. Traffic fatalities are rising in Washington, and speeding…
read moreContact: Shane Austin saustin@saferoads.org 202.425.2776 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement by Cathy Chase, President of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates), on New Automated Vehicle Framework Announced Today by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy (Washington, D.C. – April 24, 2025) Today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released an Automated Vehicle Framework aimed at accelerating commercial deployments of autonomous vehicles…
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