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NHTSA oversight of safety defects and new automotive technologies : challenges and assessments /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nova Publishers,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Transportation issues, policies and R & D series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.