Bill > S1535

This bill, known as the Safety Through Informed Consumers Act of 2015, aims to enhance consumer understanding of vehicle safety by requiring the Department of Transportation (referred to as the Secretary) to ensure that information about a vehicle's crash avoidance features is presented alongside information about its crashworthiness. Crashworthiness refers to how well a vehicle protects its occupants in a crash, while crash avoidance refers to features designed to prevent crashes from happening in the first place. The bill mandates that this crash avoidance information must be displayed in the same format and location as the crashworthiness information wherever that safety data is made available to the public, and this change must be implemented within one year of the bill's enactment.