I'd take you on a drive but the blog has stalled while being passed:
"Senate approves new auto safety chief" by Joan Lowy, Associated Press December 17, 2014
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday confirmed a new administrator to lead the US auto safety agency, which faces complaints that regulators bungled two high-profile recalls involving faulty ignition switches and exploding air bags.
Mark Rosekind, 59, was approved to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a neglected but critically important agency that is widely considered to be understaffed and underfunded.
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The biggest issue facing Rosekind at the agency will be revitalizing its oversight of auto recalls. It has been roundly criticized for not recognizing for years dangerous defects that caused ignition switches of some General Motors cars to suddenly shut off and Takata air bags to spew shrapnel. Lawmakers complain the agency is neither feared nor respected by the auto industry.
Auto makers have recalled a record 55 million cars and trucks in the United States this year.
At least 38 people have been killed as a result of faulty GM ignition switches.
And they knew about it for years.
A recall of exploding Takata air bags may be the largest in the agency’s history....
If the will strikes me I'll deploy a few links; otherwise..... pfffffffft!
Rosekind said he appreciated the Senate’s swift action on his nomination and plans to work closely with Congress to advance Foxx’s ‘‘vision to raise the bar on safety.’’
Rosekind has a PhD in psychology from Yale University and is a former director of Stanford University’s Center for Human Sleep Research.
In the 1990s, he did ground-breaking research for NASA on how pilots are affected by lack of sleep.
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I will appraise his tenure later.
LAST DAY UPDATE:
After tide of recalls, auto industry does some soul-searching
“What you’re seeing is the makeover of the entire industry.”
After decades of negligence and death.
Anyone been charged with murder yet?
