The U.S. Department of Transportation has been making some historic strides in the effort to improve and strengthen automotive safety. Just last month they formed an agreement with 18 automakers that will make Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) standard by the year 2022. Now, they have announced a new collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The three organizations recently convened for a forum on Enhancing Safety Culture in Transportation.

Top U.S. airlines and automobile manufacturers came together to discuss ways that the automotive industry could use some of the safety lessons from the aviation industry and apply them to making vehicles safer. The overall goal is to maximize safety recall participation rates, enhance cybersecurity, improve data analysis, and create a new culture of proactive safety.

“The commercial aviation industry’s unprecedented period of safety is the result of hard work,” said NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind. “The aviation industry and the FAA have partnered to create new strategies and build a safety culture from top to bottom. We believe that the best practices will apply to the auto industry too. We have started by establishing the proactive safety principles, which have already yielded concrete results. We will continue looking for new safety solutions anywhere we can find them.”

“U.S. Department of Transportation Convenes Aviation and Automobile Industry Forum on Safety .” NHTSA. N.p., 22 Apr. 2016. Web. Apr. 2016. <http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/nhtsa-faa-safety-forum-04222016>.

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