The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is seeking to push back deadlines for updates to its long-delayed New Car Assessment Program, marking another instance of the agency falling behind schedule. Critics have long highlighted the program’s slow progress, raising concerns about its ability to keep pace with evolving vehicle safety standards. The proposed delays come as part of a broader trend of sluggishness within the agency, leaving key safety evaluations in limbo. Industry observers and consumer advocates are closely watching whether the setbacks will further weaken the program’s effectiveness in assessing modern vehicle safety.
NHTSA is proposing delays to the already laggard New Car Assessment Program, part of a larger pattern of tardiness by the agency.
