NHTSA is over five months late in meeting deadline to strengthen car seats
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Over five months after telling Congress a proposed regulation to strengthen vehicle seats to make them safer would be published "in the coming months," the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has yet to meet a congressional deadline it missed last November.
In the infrastructure law signed in November 2021, Congress gave the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the nation's top auto safety regulator, two years to make vehicle seats stronger, following a multi-year CBS News investigation.
"That is actually in the process of being developed. We don't have any updates to share right now, but it is still being developed at NHTSA," Sophie Shulman NHTSA deputy administrator, told CBS News' Katie Krupnik at an event in Washington, Tuesday. "It's something that we're very focused on; it's an incredibly important safety issue and something we're very focused on getting done."
