Car shut down could callbacks, impact auto safety delay.

The closure of the four-day-old Federal Government already be felt by the automotive industry and the impact could force manufacturers to delay the introduction of some of its newest vehicles among others.

The highly politicized budget impasse is forcing some 800,000 federal workers on leave, put a stop to areas many services described as "unimportant". But that could be subject to a discussion in the automotive industry.

Under these services currently on ice they are Protection Agency (EPA) programs for determining the mileage ratings of new vehicles environmental and area crash tests by the national highway traffic safety test administration (NHTSA).

That could cause headaches, as the investigation into exactly why car battery Tesla model S earlier this week in a suburb of Seattle fire started. Normally, NHTSA researchers would work besides Tesla investigators determine you what provisionally debris 85-kilowatt-hour battery pack has been blamed puncturing part of the sedan on the road.

In turn the Government, a serious flaw in the model S design, were to discover, which could lead to a recall or other service promotion.

Other government crash test, the programs also should be moved, but it is unclear whether the development or the introduction of new products due to would be coming in the near future on the market.

But the NHTSA has been forced to a stop reminiscent of the vehicle. That probably could, a life-threatening matter if it that all critical means vehicle safety issues - such as faulty brakes, faulty airbags or some other serious flaws - for a long time were consensus.

Uncertainty depends on using the EPA fuel-economy program. An EPA rating is required, on the so-called Munroney "complete window sticker found on every new car in the United States sold and often, the tests required for these stickers just before a vehicle will start selling.

Due to the number of new products the EPA will do every year now expected, the rest only tests between 10 and 15 percent of all new vehicles with manufacturer introduced, but the Government still checked the test results before a car manufacturer approval, the resulting numbers are used.

Without that initial, can be unclear whether the 2014-news, yet certification get sold. She could be forced, sitting in showrooms indefinitely, if federal shutdown, with traders who draws not capable of these products on sale to put.