Joan Claybrook

Harvey Rosenfield, Consumer Watchdog Founder, Joan Claybrook, Former Public Citizen President and Former NHTSA Administrator and John M. Simpson, Consumer Watchdog Privacy Project Director, submitted the report to the formal written record of the Commerce Committee hearing. All three are panelists in the GW Law program.

After their refusal, Consumer Watchdog, Consumers for Auto Reliability, the Center for Auto Safety and former NHTSA Administrator Joan Claybrook in July called on President Obama to ask Foxx and Rosekind to make the pledge. He did not.

“If a vehicle could not distinguish between a white truck and the sky, that to me would seem to be a defect,” said Joan Claybrook, NHTSA administrator under President Jimmy Carter and an auto safety advocate.

The issue, apparently, is concern over the accelerating move toward self-driving vehicles. In a letter to the incoming President, Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, John M. Simpson, the group's privacy project director, and Joan Claybrook, Chair of Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways, wrote that automated vehicles and other emerging technology threaten jobs, invade privacy, and make roads and highways less safe.