Forbes contributor Christopher Jensen writes that a filing in the Federal Register indicates there will not be “any federal safety standard” to inform consumers of “how well automatic braking and crash avoidance systems work” or to require a recall “if they fail.” The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced in the filing that it has rejected the petition to create a new safety standard because doing so “would have taken between three and seven years longer” than the voluntary agreement NHTSA has said “most automakers” will provide.
From the news release of the American Association for Justice.
