President Joe Biden plans to nominate the No. 2 auto safety official and a former California Air Resources Board official to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the White House confirmed on Tuesday.
Reuters first reported Cliff's planned nomination earlier on Tuesday.
NHTSA, which is part of the U.S. Transportation Department, faces a backlog of pending auto safety regulations and has not had a Senate-confirmed administrator since January 2017. There has not evenNHTSA in August proposed dramatically revising the Trump administration's rollback of Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules, proposing increasing fuel efficiency by 8% annually for the 2024-2026 model years.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has seen a sustained increase in traffic deaths that NHTSA has ascribed to impaired driving, speeding, a failure to wear seatbelts and other unsafe behavior.died in vehicle crashes in the first three months of 2021, compared with 7,900 deaths during the same period last year - up 10.5% despite a 2.1% drop in miles driven.why it has not issued a recall to address software updates made to its Autopilot driver-assistance system.
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