Since retiring from NHTSA, Allan Kam has consulted with industry and litigants on numerous issues relating to NHTSA, including:

• Responding to NHTSA inquiries
• Whether a product should be (or should have been) recalled due to a safety-related defect
• Whether information was improperly withheld from NHTSA
• NHTSA’s limited resources to investigate defects and FMVSS noncompliances
• Applicability and minimal nature of FMVSSs
• Rollovers and roof crush (FMVSS 216)
• Investigation of tire defects; tire safety standards
• Truck underride
• Preemption or lack thereof
• Inadequacy of certain FMVSSs
• History of Standard 208, airbag warning labels, and related preemption issues
• Crashworthiness investigations and occupant crash protection requirements
• Standard 213 (child seats) requirements
• NHTSA child seat defect investigations
• Seat belts and seat belt buckles; rear seat lap and shoulder belts
• How a product can comply with a FMVSS and still be defective
• Rulemaking on electrical system integrity
• Rulemaking on fuel system integrity (FMVSS 301)
• Refuting canards about NHTSA, e.g., that NHTSA found “no defect” or gave the product a “clean bill of health”
• Explaining agency actions (e.g. political influences)
• FMVSSs 205 (glazing); 206 (door locks); 207 (seating); 218 (motorcycle helmets)