Tom Castellano
Vehicle Safety Data Editor
NHTSA recalls, complaints, and investigations by make, model, and year
Tom Castellano leads how RecallIndex reads and presents NHTSA's vehicle recall and complaint data. The role decides which fields each vehicle, make, and ranking page uses — campaign numbers, affected vehicle ranges, defect types, remedy status, and complaint counts — keeps the dataset aligned to NHTSA's current scope as recalls are expanded or superseded, and triages corrections. Recall figures are drafted with AI assistance and editorially reviewed against the underlying NHTSA Recalls, Complaints, and Investigation API releases before publication.
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Content is produced by an AI-augmented editorial team: research and drafting are AI-assisted and reviewed by the named desk editor against primary public-data sources before publication.
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