# NHTSA Vehicle Safety Muse connector

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## NHTSA Vehicle Safety

Look up vehicle crash ratings, recalls, complaints, and safety investigations from NHTSA.

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-2
- Category: Shopping & Commerce
- Developer: cyanheads
- Muse status: Extra setup. Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
- Health: Working, 364ms, checked 2026-09-28T09:16:07Z
- Endpoint: https://nhtsa.caseyjhand.com/mcp
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-09-25T06:26:23Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (io.github.cyanheads/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-mcp-server) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=io.github.cyanheads%2Fnhtsa-vehicle-safety-mcp-server

Connects to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration database. Decode VINs, search recalls and complaints by vehicle, get NCAP crash test ratings and ADAS features, and research defect investigations. Helps buyers and owners understand vehicle safety history.

Example request: "Show me the crash test ratings and any open recalls for a 2020 Honda Civic before I buy it."

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use NHTSA Vehicle Safety to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://nhtsa.caseyjhand.com/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Tools:
- nhtsa_get_vehicle_safety: Get a comprehensive safety profile for a vehicle. Combines NCAP crash test ratings, recalls, and complaint summary into a single response. Use as the default when asked about vehicle safety, reliability, or purchase decisions.
- nhtsa_search_recalls: Search recall campaigns by vehicle or campaign number. Use for specific recall lookups, recall history for a vehicle, or looking up a known campaign number.
- nhtsa_search_complaints: Search consumer safety complaints filed with NHTSA for a specific vehicle. Returns a component breakdown over all matching complaints plus a paginated slice of the most recent complaints. Use for common problems, failure patterns, or owner-reported issues.
- nhtsa_get_safety_ratings: Get NCAP crash test ratings and ADAS feature availability for a vehicle. Use when the user specifically wants crash test stars, rollover risk, or wants to compare safety features across vehicles. NCAP data available from 1990+, best coverage for 2011+.
- nhtsa_decode_vin: Decode a Vehicle Identification Number to extract make, model, year, body type, engine, safety equipment, and manufacturing details. Pass a single 17-character VIN string, or an array of up to 50 VINs for batch decode. Partial VINs accepted — use * for unknown positions.
- nhtsa_search_investigations: Search NHTSA defect investigations from the ODI flat file — covering Preliminary Evaluations (PE), Engineering Analyses (EA), Defect Petitions (DP), Recall Queries (RQ), Audit Queries (AQ), and additional ODI types. make, model, and component are structured filters against the in
- nhtsa_lookup_vehicles: Look up valid makes, models, and vehicle types in NHTSA's database. Use to resolve ambiguous vehicle names, find correct make/model spelling, or discover what models a manufacturer produces.

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 366ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (nhtsa.caseyjhand.com not flagged)
- Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database: pass (No malicious-package advisories)
- Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text: pass (7 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (No redirects off the domain)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)