NHTSA launches 'SaferCar' app for iPhones

NHTSA launches 'SaferCar' app for iPhones

The National Highway Traffic Assurance Administration (NHTSA) is ablution a fresh iOS app for iPhones and iPod Touches that will accommodate real-time agent assurance advice to consumers from NHTSA's SaferCar.gov site.

To alarm it 'comprehensive' ability be an understatement. The fresh SaferCar app allows users to chase its 5-Star Assurance Ratings for cartage by accomplish and model, locate car bench accession help, book a agent assurance complaint, acquisition anamnesis advice and subscribe to automated notices about agent recalls.

NHTSA says that it will additionally accord developers real-time admission to the abstracts that admiral this app through an Application Programming Interface (API), enabling them to accommodate these abstracts into fresh and absolute apps and allotment consumers with important assurance information. Millions of consumers already await on these abstracts to acquaint their purchasing decisions on accepted auto analysis sites; now they'll be able to admission these abstracts in real-time.

The fresh SaferCar app gives consumers actual admission to key assurance advice to advice them accomplish abreast decisions, with appearance including:

5-Star Assurance Ratings: Consumers because agent purchases can attending up blast analysis ratings and analyze them beyond altered makes and models.

Recalls and Complaints: App users can break on top of assurance issues for cartage they already own. Consumers can annals their cartage to be notified by NHTSA if a assurance affair is discovered. The app additionally makes it simple to abide complaints to NHTSA apropos accessible assurance problems with a accurate vehicle.

Help Installing Adolescent Seats: The app helps consumers ensure their best adored cartage ride safe. Users can bound get active admonition to the abutting adolescent bench analysis base and get abetment to appropriately install their car seats and boosters.

Safety Headlines and Alerts: App users can accept important account and advice from NHTSA, as able-bodied as anamnesis notices and advance notices on their recorded vehicles.

The SaferCar app for iPhone and iPod Touch accessories can be downloaded from Apple's iTunes Store. Development is additionally underway for a adaptation accordant with Android devices.

The barrage of the NHTSA app is allotment of advancing efforts by the nation's arch automotive assurance bureau to accomplish it easier for consumers to admission and abide advice about important agent assurance concerns. Earlier this year, the bureau additionally adapted assets on its website [L=http://www.SaferCar.gov ][/L]

to accredit consumers to bound locate advice on specific assurance birthmark investigations, complaints and agent recalls.

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