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The 24 Hours of Daytona was the first of eleven scheduled sports car endurance races of 2023 by IMSA, and the first of four races of the Michelin Endurance Cup (MEC). [5] It took place at the 12-turn, 3.56-mile (5.73 km) Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida from January 28 to 29.
Systematic motor-vehicle safety efforts began during the 1960s. In 1960, unintentional injuries caused 93,803 deaths; [5] 41% were associated with motor-vehicle crashes. In 1966, after Congress and the general public had become thoroughly horrified by five years of skyrocketing motor-vehicle-related fatality rates, the enactment of the Highway Safety Act created the National Highway Safety ...
Audits by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General in 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2021 have concluded that NHTSA is ineffectual; [further explanation needed] the 2021 audit found NHTSA failing to issue or update Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards effectively or to act within timeframes on petitions and ...
"Timeline of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards by Year and Notable Technologies" (PDF). National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-06-24; Tests for compliance with various FMVSS (broken has to be fixed) Overview of CMVSS at Transport Canada
The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (usually referred to as the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, abbreviated MUTCD) is a document issued by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) to specify the standards by which traffic signs, road surface markings, and signals are designed, installed ...
A major difference between a product recall and a TSB in the automotive industry is that a recall usually evolves out of safety issues at the behest of an organization such as the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). [2]
FMVSS 108 is codified in Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 571, Section 108. [1] The most recent version was published by NHTSA for comment in December 2007, [2] and since then, it has been amended in April 2011, [3] August 2011, [4] January 2012, [5] December 2012, [6] December 2015, [7] February 2016, [8] and February 2022.
Citing unspecified concerns about public safety, NHTSA reserves the right to approve a vehicle for "Show or Display" import, but disallow it from being registered for use on public roads. The administration also reserves the right, at the time of import, to place any other arbitrary restrictions or limitations on the use of an imported vehicle.