Auto bill draft would require black boxes, allow NHTSA to issue quick recalls (100% monitoring)

Washington Post ^ | Friday, April 30, 2010 | Peter Whoriskey

[Texas Fossil]

All new cars would have to be equipped with "black boxes" that record performance data and federal safety regulators would be granted the authority to order immediate recalls under newly proposed auto-safety legislation being considered by Congress.

The draft of a bill was released Thursday by one of the House committees investigating Toyota's massive recalls for unintended acceleration in its vehicles.

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The idea that the new congress will close entire departments is what scares "average" voters. Tell them you will make them smaller and thus more effective and they will go along. Ask the "average" voter should the people at PBS be making $400,000 a year to read the news, be on the Muppets? Lets make the contribution a little small - say 100 million and then do the same thing times 100 departments.

Ask people why have we hired 1600 people at the transportantion department for salaries of 100,000 a year? Have your seen better roads, more bridge work or less congestion at rush hour? Maybe we could do with FEWER people at that department.

Remember that the EPA and PBS ahve been teaching in schools for 25+ years that means a laod of generational people think they are necessary. Sell smaller and effective. that is my 2 cents.

[Texas Fossil]

Sell smaller and effective. that is my 2 cents.

Simple works, unecessary complexity normally supports a hidden agenda. 2,000 page bills are designed to hide what they are doing.

[Fresh Wind]

Think of how this will boost the used car market!

Don't count on it, knowing Obomba and is posse, they just might mandate retrofits.