NHTSA oversight of safety defects and new automotive technologies : challenges and assessments / Violet Clarke, editor.

Includes index.

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Preface; Vehicle Safety: Enhanced Project Management of New Information Technology Could Help Improve NHTSA's Oversight of Safety Defects*; Why GAO Did This Study; What GAO Recommends; What GAO Found; Abbreviations; Background; NHTSA Faces Numerous Challenges in Its Oversight of Safety Defects and Has Announced Plans and Taken Some Steps in Response; Data Collection and Analysis; Internal Guidance and Business Processes; New Technologies; Human Capital Management; Agency Culture; Enforcement Authorities; Budgetary Resources.

Implementation of New IT System Is under Way, but NHTSA Could Improve Some Project-Management PracticesImplementation of NHTSA's IT System Continues; NHTSA Could Improve Some Aspects of Its CIF Project Management; NHTSA Lacks an Overall Project Schedule for Customizing and Releasing CIF Tools for ODI; NHTSA Follows Some Recognized Practices, but Lacks an Integrated Approach to Managing All Aspects of the CIF; NHTSA Has Taken Some Steps to Address the Oversight of New Technologies but, unlike Selected Agencies, Has Not Yet Developed a Strategic Plan to Guide the Agency's Efforts.

NHTSA Has Undertaken Various Efforts to Address New Technologies in Its Oversight of Vehicle SafetyNHTSA's Strategic Planning Is Ongoing, with a Plan Promised in Spring 2016; Selected Agencies' Approaches to Overseeing New Technologies Use Strategic Planning and Formalized Methods to Identify Developments in New Technologies; Selected Agencies Share Challenges in Overseeing the Safety of New Technologies, but Differ in Terms of Regulatory Framework, Workload, and Funding.

Like NHTSA, FAA and FDA Collaborate with Industry, but They Also Use Strategic Planning and Formalized Methods to Stay Abreast of New TechnologiesConclusion; Recommendations for Executive Action; Agency Comments; Appendix I: Objectives, Scope, and Methodology; Appendix II: Comments from the Department of Transportation; Appendix III: Articles and Reports Used to Identify Challenges Facing NHTSA's Oversight of Safety Defects; Literature Review Articles; Relevant Reports; End Notes; End Notes for Appendix I.

Inadequate Data and Analysis Undermine NHTSA's Efforts to Identify and Investigate Vehicle Safety ConcernsMemorandum; Results in Brief; Background; ODI Lacks Effective Processes for Collecting Complete and Accurate Vehicle Safety Data; ODI Lacks Detailed Guidance and Verification Processes to Obtain Complete and Accurate Early Warning Reporting Data; ODI Does Not Provide Sufficient Guidance to Consumers on the Type of Information to Include When Submitting Complaints; ODI Received Early Warning and Consumer Complaint Data Related to the GM Ignition Switch Defect.

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