{"id":11057,"date":"2021-12-01T20:17:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=11057"},"modified":"2021-12-01T20:17:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:17:30","slug":"nhtsa-urges-drivers-to-report-vehicle-safety-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/nhtsa-urges-drivers-to-report-vehicle-safety-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"NHTSA urges drivers to report vehicle safety issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration<\/a> (NHTSA) is urging drivers to report their vehicle\u2019s safety issues.<\/p>\n<p>The organization says it wants to hear about any issue with vehicles that could be a safety defect, and says every complaint will be closely looked at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if your ride is basic or fancy, big or small \u2013 we want to hear from you,\u201d said NHTSA in a statement. \u201cAnd whether your safety issue is mechanical, electrical, or governed by software\u2014if it presents an unreasonable risk to safety, manufacturers are required to file a NHTSA safety recall to fix it for free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NHTSA administered nearly 900 safety recalls affecting more than 55 million vehicles and other equipment in 2020. Many of those recalls began as a complaint from a member of the public.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists can inform NHTSA of a safety defect that isn\u2019t part of a current recall by calling the agency\u2019s Vehicle Safety Hotline at 888-327-4236.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is urging drivers to report their vehicle\u2019s safety issues. The organization says it wants to hear about any issue with vehicles that could be a safety defect, and says every complaint will be closely looked at. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if your ride is basic or fancy, big or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":11058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}