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FILE - In this March 23, 2018, file photo provided by KTVU, emergency personnel work a the scene where a Tesla electric SUV crashed into a barrier on U.S. Highway 101 in Mountain View, Calif. The National Transportation Safety Board says the driver of a Tesla SUV who died in a Silicon Valley crash two years ago was playing a video game on his smartphone at the time. Chairman Robert Sumwalt said at the start of a hearing Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 that partially automated driving systems like Tesla's Autopilot cannot drive themselves. Yet he says drivers continue to use them without paying attention. (KTVU-TV via AP, File)

NTSB: Tesla Autopilot, distracted driver caused fatal crash

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

NTSB: Co-pilot in fatal NJ crash shouldn’t have been flying

By DAVID PORTER - Associated Press

FILE- In this Dec. 18, 2017, file photo National Transportation Safety Board Member Bella Dinh-Zarr speaks at a news conference at the National Transportation Safety Board headquarters in Washington. Federal safety officials say they want a crackdown on impaired and distracted drivers, wider use of collision-avoidance technology in cars, and tougher regulations for operators of air tours and medical flights. The National Transportation Safety Board laid out a wish list Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, to improve safety on roads, trains and in the sky. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, FIle)

Safety board highlights need for transportation improvements

By DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

Federal board recommends seatbelts on all new school buses

By JONATHAN MATTISE - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, April 17, 2018, photo, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator examines damage to the engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. A preliminary examination of the blown jet engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that set off a terrifying chain of events and left a businesswoman hanging half outside a shattered window showed evidence of &quot;metal fatigue,&quot; according to the National Transportation Safety Board. (NTSB via AP)

The Latest: Southwest pilots: ‘Our hearts are heavy’

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An aerial view of the site of an early morning train crash Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018, between an Amtrak train, bottom right, and a CSX freight train, top left, in Cayce, S.C. The Amtrak passenger train slammed into a freight train in the early morning darkness Sunday, killing at least two Amtrak crew members and injuring more than 110 people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jeff Blake)

The Latest: Safety system install had signals out in crash

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FILE- In this Feb. 4, 2015, file photo, a police officer looks at an SUV that was crushed at the front of a Metro-North Railroad train in Valhalla, N.Y. Federal investigators have concluded that a fiery crash between a commuter train and an SUV that killed six people in the suburbs in 2015 was extra deadly because of an unusual rail design, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on Monday, July 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

NTSB: We can’t know why SUV was on tracks before train crash

By COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

In this photo made from a video shot and provided by KTIV, several tank cars burn after a freight train, carrying ethanol, derailed around 1 a.m., Friday, March 10, 2017, near the small community of Graettinger in northwestern Iowa. Environmental experts were checking for ethanol leaks after the freight train derailed and burst into flames as it crossed a trestle bridge over a creek that empties into the Des Moines River. (Courtesy of KTIV via AP)

Safety official wants rail cars replaced faster after fire

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Amtrak conductor Michael Laubauskas talks on a radio in Trenton, N.J. as his train departs for Washington, D.C. (Associated Press)

Amtrak to restore full Northeast Corridor service Monday

By Ron Todt - Associated Press

Emergency personnel work at the scene of a deadly train derailment, Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Philadelphia. The Amtrak train, headed to New York City, derailed and crashed in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, killing at least six people and injuring dozens of others. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Amtrak train possibly hit with object before Philly derailment; FBI to investigate

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt speaks during a news conference Thursday, May 14, 2015, in Philadelphia. Sumwalt said the Amtrak train that derailed Tuesday in Philadelphia sped up for a full minute before it derailed at a sharp curve, killing eight people and injuring more than 200. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Investigators look at why Amtrak train sped up before derailment

By Geoff Mulvihill and Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

Investigators examine the train derailment site, Wednesday, May 13, 2015, after a fatal Amtrak derailment Tuesday night, in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia. Federal investigators arrived Wednesday to determine why an Amtrak train jumped the tracks in a wreck that killed at least six people, and injured dozens. (Alejandro A. Alvarez/Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

Joseph Boardman, Amtrak CEO: Railroad takes ‘full responsibility’ for crash

By Geoff Mulvihill and Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

Brandon Bostian’s lawyer says Amtrak train engineer doesn’t remember deadly wreck

By Geoff Mulvihill - Associated Press

Federal investigators are working to determine why an Amtrak train sped up unsafely and jumped the tracks in a Philadelphia neighborhood Tuesday, killing seven and injuring dozens more. (Associated Press)

Philadelphia Amtrak derailment: Train raced at 106 mph into sharp curve

By David Sherfinski and Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Emergency personnel help a passenger at the scene of a train wreck, Tuesday, May 12, 2015, in Philadelphia. An Amtrak train headed to New York City derailed and crashed in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)

Investigators: Train in deadly wreck was speeding 106 mph

By GEOFF MULVIHILL - Associated Press

A firefighter applies water to rubble a day after a gas leak-triggered explosion, Thursday, March 13, 2014, in East Harlem, New York. Rescuers working amid gusty winds, cold temperatures and billowing smoke pulled additional bodies Thursday from the rubble of two apartment buildings that collapsed Wednesday. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

8 dead in NY gas blast as rescue operation goes on

By VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press

NTSB: Further pipe exam required at NYC blast site

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Emergency workers respond to the scene of an explosion that leveled two apartment buildings in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Con Edison spokesman Bob McGee says a resident from a building adjacent to the two that collapsed reported that he smelled gas inside his apartment, but thought the odor could be coming from outside. (AP Photo/Jeremy Sailing)

Death toll in NYC gas explosion climbs to 8

By VERENA DOBNIK and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

FAA orders checks of 737s with many takeoff-landing cycles

By Bob Christie and Joan Lowy - Associated Press

A cellphone photo provided by passenger Joshua Hardwicke shows an apparent hole in the cabin of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 373-300 on Friday, April 1, 2011, as it makes an emergency decent into Yuma, Ariz. (AP Photo/Joshua Hardwicke)

NTSB: Cracks found in 3 grounded Southwest planes

By Bob Christie - Associated Press