WASHINGTON — NHTSA on Thursday launched a cloud-based dashboard for sifting and sorting greater than 50 years’ value of auto security recall information.

The company’s searchable database permits customers to kind, filter and visualize information, akin to the whole variety of remembers by producer and whole variety of probably affected autos. It additionally permits customers to look by key phrase and to export information.

The dashboard shall be up to date day by day, NHTSA said.

Customers can entry recall information way back to Jan. 19, 1966 — 4 years earlier than NHTSA was established — when Normal Motors recalled the 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle and El Camino in addition to sure fashions from Oldsmobile and Buick over a problem with the steering shaft. Almost 278,000 autos have been affected in whole, in response to the stories.

“This new dashboard supplies unprecedented transparency into the recall course of,” Steven Cliff, NHTSA’s appearing administrator, stated in an announcement. “Greater than 50 years of recall information at the moment are simply accessible to the media, researchers, security advocates and anybody all for studying extra about automobile security.”

The info beforehand was accessible via a “bulk obtain,” requiring customers to obtain massive recordsdata and import them right into a database. NHTSA stated the brand new system is extra user-friendly and makes the data extra clear.