The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been battling with lawmakers in an effort to gain additional funding in order to handle – amongst other things – the 33.8 million Takata airbags recalled. In the most recent hearing, the NHTSA Administrator, along with several senators provided examples of how extremely underfunded the agency is. Here are few of those statistics:
The Federal Aviation Administration has 30 times the budget of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and 6,000 employees, compared to 90 at NHTSA. – Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn
The U.S. Railways had just 10 deaths last year, but 700 government employees oversee them. In contrast, there were 32,719 lives lost on U.S. roads last year. – NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosenthal
The NHTSA gets over 80,000 consumer complaints per year, but has just one person reviewing them for half a day… if the person spends four hours per day looking at complaints, that’s over 80 complaints pe...
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