How do you even get a vehicle past safety regulations and up for sale without third party crash testing?

I found this article informative.

consumerreports.org/…/some-cars-will-never-be-cra…

In order to sell a new vehicle in the U.S., manufacturers must provide information from their own company crash tests to NHTSA to ensure compliance with federal standards.

Yup, regulatory capture at work. You see this a lot in EPA and OSHA as well - “we’ll take your word for it until serious shit starts happening a lot.”

They all do spot checks.

It would cost a shitload of money if they had to clear every single model.

So either everything gets more expensive, or we increase taxes further.