Posted On: January 26, 2011
Safety Agency to Focus on New Technology
In an interview reported in today's WSJ, David Strickland, the head of the federal safety agency, says that the agency's focus will be on new technology. The agency will look at crash-avoidance technology, such as Ford's experiments with a "talking vehicle" system that warns a driver a vehicle is closing in fast from the side at a blind intersection. The agency is also researching devices to detect an elevated lood alcohol level in the driver to reduce drunk driving.
Consumer auto safety advocates have long seen the agency as doing too little, too late. Perhaps the agency will now force some major advances in auto safety.;
