{"id":575897,"date":"2010-05-22T00:12:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusgear.com\/archives\/41350"},"modified":"2010-05-22T00:12:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:12:12","slug":"report-u-s-auto-regulators-lack-needed-power-to-order-immediate-recalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575897","title":{"rendered":"Report: U.S. auto regulators lack needed power to order immediate recalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/focusgear.com\/files\/2010\/05\/fbdb31aa9b57953d209a57199d6a2139.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" border=\"0\" class=\"rss2wordpress_image alignleft\" alt=\"2010 Toyota Yaris\" \/>The chief federal auto regulator said that under a Senate legislation drafted after Toyota Motor Corp.\u2019s announcement of record recalls, the US government wouldn\u2019t have the power to order immediate auto recalls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">David Strickland, director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said that the proposal by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., would mean that consumer notification is required before a recall could be issued. Strickland said that this \u201cdoes not constitute a recall.\u201d In a testimony for a hearing of Rockefeller\u2019s committee in Washington, Strickland said that the agency shouldn\u2019t be faced with a lengthy procedural process <span id=\"more-41350\"><\/span> if the \u201cthreat to human life is truly imminent.\u201d Strickland is helping to create legislation as the Senate and House proceed with plans to reinforce auto-safety oversight in response to Toyota\u2019s vehicle defects as well as its failure to promptly notify the regulator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[via autonews &#8211; sub. required]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p class=\"rss2wordpress_signature\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4wheelsnews.com\/\">Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief federal auto regulator said that under a Senate legislation drafted after Toyota Motor Corp.\u2019s announcement of record recalls, the US government wouldn\u2019t have the power to order immediate auto recalls. David Strickland, director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said that the proposal by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}