DOT convenes automakers to collaborate on safety issues

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has reportedly asked for \'concrete commitments\' to improve safety.

The US Department of Transportation has reportedly convened executives from more than a dozen automakers to collaborate on industrywide safety improvements.

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is said to be focusing on working together with automakers. The executives will have a chance to raise concerns, voice suggestions and debate the details.

"Participants were asked to come prepared with suggestions to share, and spend the next month working toward concrete commitments to industrywide safety measures," DoT press secretary Namrata Kolachalam said in a statement published by Bloomberg.

The gathering appears to have been scheduled in the wake of the Takata airbag fiasco and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' tangle with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In both cases, regulators claimed the companies had failed to meet their reporting requirements for safety issues.

Foxx is expected to remind all automakers of their reporting responsibilities. Other discussions are said to involve emerging issues, such as cybersecurity, that need to be addressed as potential safety concerns.