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GAO-14-408R 1 (2014-04-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaahvk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 April 24, 2014 The Honorable John Mica Chairman Subcommittee on Government Operations Committee on Oversight and Government Reform House of Representatives The Honorable Mark R. Warner United States Senate The Honorable Mario Diaz-Balart The Honorable Lois Frankel House of Representatives Federal Vehicle Collisions and Aftermarket Collision Avoidance Technologies The federal government can be liable for vehicular damages and the costs of injuries resulting from accidents involving vehicles that are owned or leased by federal agencies. The General Services Administration (GSA) plays a key role in helping agencies manage their vehicle fleets, and agencies can purchase and lease vehicles from GSA. However, federal agencies are ultimately responsible for acquiring, maintaining, and managing those vehicles in a cost- effective manner, and in fiscal year 2012, federal agencies-civilian, defense, and the U.S. Postal Service-reported owning or leasing about 650,000 motor vehicles at a cost of almost $4.4 billion. Recently, new technologies have become available that may help reduce the frequency of accidents as well as the costs of accidents that occur. These technologies, called collision avoidance technologies, use sensors, such as cameras and radar, to observe a vehicle's surroundings and issue warnings to drivers when certain types of collisions may be imminent. While such technologies have increasingly become available as factory-installed options on vehicles, aftermarket collision avoidance technologies have also become available that may offer similar benefits but cost less than factory-installed options. You asked us to examine how much accidents involving federal vehicles cost the government each year as well as whether aftermarket collision avoidance technologies might help to reduce the number of accidents and the associated costs. We briefed your staff on the preliminary results of our review on March 26, 2014; this report formally transmits the briefing slides we provided at that time (see enclosure I). This report discusses what is known about (1) the extent to which federal vehicles were reported to have been involved in accidents from fiscal years 2008 through 2012 and the cost of those accidents to the government, and (2) the potential of aftermarket collision avoidance technologies to help reduce vehicle accidents. To describe what is known about the extent to which federal vehicles were reported to have been involved in accidents from fiscal years 2008 through 2012 and the cost of those accidents to the government, we reviewed GSA and agency-specific guidance regarding reporting vehicle GAO-14-408R Federal Vehicle Collisions Page 1

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