VERITY NOW — A Coalition for Vehicle Equity in Transportation
About VERITY NOW
VERITY (Vehicle Equity Rules in Transportation) NOW strives to achieve equality in vehicle safety by educating on, and advocating for, crash testing standards that protect every body, regardless of gender, height, weight or age.
Inherent biases in crash testing put women, young people, the elderly and heavier body types at significantly higher risk of injury or death in car crashes. This is unacceptable. We need to update vehicle crash testing standards and practices to better understand the safety needs of a broader range of body types.
Technologies exist that can give us a more accurate understanding of how all vehicle occupants are impacted in a crash. These technologies, which employ sensors and other advanced tools, create better data – which can lead to better designs that account for every body.
It is time to deploy these technologies to help save lives. VERITY Now is a group of people who are coming together to voice our concern about these unequal outcomes – and talk to policymakers in the U.S. and E.U. who have the power to fix them.
There are three clear policy and regulatory changes that should be implemented:
1) Update New Car Assessment Programs (NCAPs)
Voluntary New Car Assessment Programs (NCAPs) should immediately adopt updated crash test dummy technologies that more accurately represent multiple body types.
2) Update Regulatory Standards
Policymakers should define a roadmap with a timeline for regular updates of regulatory and NCAP standards.
3) Equitable Crash Testing
Policymakers should make immediate commitments to require equal testing with both male and female crash test devices in all seating positions.
VERITY NOW LEADERSHIP
Susan Molinari
Co-Chair
Susan Molinari has a wide-ranging background resulting from her multi-disciplinary service in the leadership of the United States Congress and as Google’s vice president of public policy for the Americas.
Having been elected from a New York City-based district five times to Congress, Ms. Molinari was quickly elevated by House Republicans who twice elected her as one of just eight members to serve in the leadership of the first GOP majority in 40 years. In Congress, she developed a strong record of bipartisanship and effectiveness on issues ranging from transportation and the budget, to child abuse and human rights.
As Google’s vice president of public policy for the Unites States, Mexico, Latin America and Canada, she managed teams that monitored and interacted with both Democratic and Republican administrations, federal departments and agencies, and lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle on both sides of the U.S. Capitol, as well as state and foreign capitals.
Ms. Molinari is also a respected media communicator, having co-hosted a news program on CBS and frequently appearing as a contributor on multiple networks, including CBS, Fox, PBS and CNN, among others.
Beth A. Brooke
Co-Chair
Beth A. Brooke retired as the Global Vice-Chair – Public Policy at EY and a member of the firm’s Global Executive Board. Ms. Brooke had public policy responsibility for the firm’s operations in over 150 countries and was the global sponsor for EY’s Diversity and Inclusiveness efforts.
During the Clinton Administration, she worked in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she was responsible for all tax policy matters related to insurance and managed care. She played important roles in the healthcare reform and Superfund reform efforts.
Ms. Brooke serves on the board of The New York Times Company, eHealth, Beta Bionics, Tricolor Holdings, and SHEEX. She is also a member of the Board of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, the Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality, The Conference Board, The Aspen Institute, and Out Leadership. She is a member of the inaugural class of the Henry Crown Fellows of The Aspen Institute, the Committee of 200, and the International Women’s Forum.
Ms. Brooke is a prominent voice around the world on Diversity and Inclusion, including most prominently on LGBT inclusion and women. She has been named eleven times to the list of Forbes “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women“. In 2017, she received the Theodore Roosevelt Award, the top individual honor bestowed by the U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). She has also been inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
Catherine McCullough
President
Catherine McCullough is the President of VERITY NOW.
She has spent over thirty years in Washington advocating for innovation and safety in the automotive, telecommunication, and technology sectors, both in the government – serving as a Counsel for the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee – and in the private sector – working with clients from Fortune 500 companies to successful start-ups.
She is also a founding Steering Committee member of the Road to Zero organization, a group of 600 public and private voices leading the fight to end roadway deaths, where she serves as Co-Chair of the Equity in Transportation Working Group.