Homendy, 49, has served on the board since August 2018 and
previously was a senior legislative staffer working on
transportation issues.
She was the on-scene board member during the investigation into
the January 2020 helicopter crash that killed Los Angeles
basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven
others, as well as a September 2019 dive ship fire that killed
34 people off the California coast.
Homendy previously has criticized the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA) for failing to ensure that driver
assistance systems or nascent self-driving vehicles are safe. In
an NTSB probe into a fatal March 2018 Uber self-driving crash,
Homendy said NHTSA had "put technology advancement here before
saving lives."
In a concurring statement filed in March 2020 on a board
investigation into a fatal Tesla crash, Homendy said, "The most
dangerous way to travel in our country is on the road," noting
that more than 36,000 people are killed annually.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Christian
Schmollinger and Leslie Adler)
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