Comments on: Producing Smarter Tire Buyers and Users?

By: BarbaraB

BarbaraB — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:12:33 +0000

The information disclosure requirement here is a trade off between two types of regulatory approaches. One can view the government’s role as providing a better informational floor for intelligent consuming or one can say to NHSTA set minimum tire efficiency and safety standards that all new tires must meet. Congress obviously made that choice for the agency and to rail at NHTSA for implementing a congressional directive is to pick the wrong target.

By: dotljm

dotljm — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:57:31 +0000

Ideally, educating consumers is a good thing, and obviously providing accurate, useable information can be one way of changing behavior. This approach looks a lot like NHTSA trying to comply with the broad consumer education mandate in the law. One suspects that NHTSA recognizes an approach like this will probably do little in the way of getting useable information to the vast majority of tire consumers. Why? Because NHTSA probably understands that added fuel efficiency associated with tire choice is generally not near the top of the tire consumers list when purchasing a new tire. Nonetheless, this appears like a low cost to government (NHTSA) way of complying with the statutory mandate while making additional information available to the one in a million tire consumers sufficiently motivated to search it out.

By: NYCMuscleman18

NYCMuscleman18 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:58:08 +0000

Do you think they have that information? How much will this cost?

By: ConcernedCitizen45

ConcernedCitizen45 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:45:36 +0000

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By: JStarrSr

JStarrSr — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:48:10 +0000

In my opinion, we need the government even if ist wasteful. We should all support this attempt to force the big tire companies to reveal efficiency information. Transparency is good.

By: NYCMuscleman18

NYCMuscleman18 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:22:57 +0000

Yeah, this sucks. Protect the environment by saving all that colored paper.

By: mcorder

mcorder — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:15:19 +0000

Another fine example of bureaucracy gone berserk! It would create a bunch of useless information that no one would understand, care about or ever look at.