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| 111 | NPRM to Require a Rear Detection System for Single-Unit Trucks The agency estimates that approximately 79 fatalities per year (13 on-road and 66 off-road) and 148 injuries per year are attributable to straight trucks backing up. The agency believes that requiring a rear detection system will reduce the number of fatalities, injuries, and property damage crashes by giving truck operators the ability to detect objects behind the truck. In this analysis, we examine two possible counter-measures: a cross-view mirror system and a camera system. |
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| Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009 (CARS Program) The Act establishes a new program under which the government will provide $3,500 or $4,500 to help consumers purchase or lease a new, more fuel efficient car, van, sport utility vehicle or pickup truck from a participating dealer when they trade in an old, less fuel efficient vehicle. |
Summary of the CARS Act of 2009 and notice of upcoming rulemaking proceeding |
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| Rear Visibility NCAP Request for Comment This document requests public comment on the agency’s planned update to the U.S. New Car Assessment Program (NCAP). This update would enhance the program’s ability to recommend to motor vehicle consumers various vehicle models that contain rearview video systems that would substantially enhance the driver’s ability to avoid backover crashes. |
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| 140 | Part: 49 CFR Part 571 | Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Speed Limiting Devices NHTSA and FMCSA propose regulations that would require vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 11,793.4 kilograms (26,000 pounds) to be equipped with a speed limiting device initially set to a speed no greater than a speed to be specified in a final rule and would require motor carriers operating such vehicles in interstate commerce to maintain functional speed limiting devices set to a speed no greater than a speed to be specified in the final rule for the service life of the vehicle. |
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (pdf)
Preliminary Regulatory Impact Analysis and Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis |
| 111 | 49 CFR, Parts 571 & 585 | FMVSS, Rearview Mirrors The Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act of 2007 directs NHTSA issue a final rule amending the agency’s Federal motor vehicle safety standard on rearview mirrors to improve the ability of a driver to detect pedestrians in the area immediately behind his or her vehicle and thereby minimize the likelihood of a vehicle’s striking a pedestrian while its driver is backing the vehicle. Pursuant to this mandate, NHTSA is proposing to expand the required field of view for all passenger cars, trucks, multipurpose passenger vehicles, buses, and low-speed vehicles rated at 10,000 pounds or less, gross vehicle weight. NHTSA is proposing to specify an area immediately behind each vehicle that the driver must be able to see when the vehicle’s transmission is in reverse. It appears that, in the near term, the only technology available with the ability to comply with this proposal would be a rear visibility system that includes a rear-mounted video camera and an in-vehicle visual display. Adoption of this proposal would significantly reduce fatalities and injuries caused by backover crashes involving children, persons with disabilities, the elderly, and other pedestrians. |
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| 226 | 49 CFR Parts 571, 585 | Ejection Mitigation This final rule establishes a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 226, "Ejection Mitigation" to reduce the partial and complete ejection of vehicle occupants through side windows in crashes, particularly rollover crashes. The standard applies to the side windows next to the first three rows of seats, and to a portion of the cargo area behind the first or second rows, in motor vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 4,536 kilogram (kg) or less (10,000 pounds (lb) or less). To assess compliance, the agency is adopting a test in which an impactor is propelled from inside a test vehicle toward the windows. The ejection mitigation safety system is required to prevent the impactor from moving more than a specified distance beyond the plane of a window. |
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| 216 | 49 CFR Parts 571 and 585 | Roof Crush Resistance As part of a comprehensive plan for reducing the risk of rollover crashes and the risk of death and serious injury in those crashes, this final rule upgrades the agency’s safety standard on roof crush resistance in several ways. |
Preliminary Regulatory Impact Analysis |
| 216 | 49 CFR Parts 571 and 585 | Roof Crush Resistance; Phase-In Reporting Requirements As part of a comprehensive plan for reducing the risk of rollover crashes and the risk of death and serious injury in those crashes, this final rule upgrades the agency’s safety standard on roof crush resistance in several ways. |
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| 214 | 49 CFR Parts 571 and 585 | Side Impact Protection This final rule incorporates a dynamic pole test into Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 214, “Side impact protection.” To meet the test, vehicle manufacturers will need to assure head and improved chest protection in side crashes. It will lead to the installation of new technologies, such as side curtain air bags and torso side air bags, which are capable of improving head and thorax protection to occupants of vehicles that crash into poles and trees and vehicles that are laterally struck by a higher-riding vehicle. |
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| 49 CFR Parts 541, 542, 543 | Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard | ||
| 49 CFR Part 591 | Importation of Commercial Motor Vehicles This document proposes to add a definition of the term "import" to our regulation on the importation of motor vehicles. |
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| 49 CFR Part 576 | Recordkeeping and Record Retention | ||
| 49 CFR Part 575 | Consumer Information; New Car Assessment Program; Rollover Resistance | ||
| 49 CFR Part 575 | Stars on Cars: New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) Safety Labeling A provision of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) requires new passenger vehicles to be labeled with safety rating information published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under its New Car Assessment Program. NHTSA is required to issue regulations to ensure that the labeling requirements “are implemented by September 1, 2007.” This final rule is issued to fulfill that mandate. |
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| 49 CFR Part 575 | Consumer Information Regulations; Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Rollover Resistance | ||
| 49 CFR Part 573, 574, 576, 579 | Reporting of Information and Documents About Potential Defects; Retention of Records That Could Indicate Defects | ||
| 49 CFR Part 571, 598 | Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Side Impact Protection; Side Impact Phase-In Reporting Requirements | ||
| 49 CFR Part 571, 572, 589 | Head Impact Protection | ||
| 49 CFR Part 571 | Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Rearview Mirrors In response to a petition for rulemaking, this document proposes to require straight trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of between 4,536 kilograms (10,000 pounds) and 11,793 kilograms (26,000 pounds) to be equipped with a rear object detection system. |
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| 49 CFR Part 571 | Fuel System Integrity | ||
| 222 | 49 CFR Part 571 | School Bus Passenger Seating and Crash Protection | |
| 49 CFR Part 571 | Theft Protection and Rollaway Prevention | ||
| 108 | 49 CFR Part 571 | Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment Issues related to glare produced by lamps mounted on the fronts of vehicles |
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| 49 CFR Part 571 | Occupant Crash Protection | ||
| 49 CFR Part 571 | Event Data Recorder (EDR) This notice of proposed rulemaking would establish a new safety standard mandating the installation of EDRs in most light vehicles manufactured on or after September 1, 2014. The EDRs in those vehicles would be required by the new standard to meet the data elements, data capture and format, data retrieval, and data crash survivability requirements of the existing regulation. |
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| 118 | 49 CFR Part 571 | FMVSS, Power-operated window, partition, and roof panel systems | |
| 208 | 49 CFR Part 571 | Seat Belts on Motorcoaches In accordance with NHTSA’s 2007 Motorcoach Safety Plan and DOT’s 2009 Departmental Motorcoach Safety Action Plan, NHTSA is issuing this NPRM to propose to amend the Federal motor vehicle safety standard (FMVSS) on occupant crash protection (FMVSS No. 208) to require lap/shoulder seat belts for each passenger seating position in new motorcoaches.This NPRM also proposes to require a lap/shoulder belt for the motorcoach and large school bus driver’s seating positions, which currently are required to have either a lap or a lap/shoulder belt. |
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| 49 CFR Part 565 | Vehicle Identification Number Requirements | ||
| 49 CFR Part 563 | Event Data Recorders (EDRs) | ||
| 208 | 49 CFR Part 552, 571, 585, 595 | Occupant Crash Protection The agency is proposing to upgrade the agency's occupant protection standard to require advanced air bags. |
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| 49 CFR Part 301 | Fuel System Integrity | ||
| 141 | 49 CFR, Parts 571 and 585 | Minimum Sound Requirements for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles To reduce the risk of pedestrian crashes, especially for the blind and visually-impaired, and to satisfy the mandate in the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act (PSEA) of 2010 this final rule establishes a new Federal motor vehicle safety standard (FMVSS) setting minimum sound requirements for hybrid and electric vehicles. This new standard requires hybrid and electric passenger cars, light trucks and vans (LTVs), and low speed vehicles (LSVs) to produce sounds meeting the requirements of this standard. This final rule applies to electric vehicles (EVs) and to those hybrid vehicles (HVs) that are capable of propulsion in any forward or reverse gear without the vehicle's internal combustion engine (ICE) operating. This standard will help to ensure that blind, visually impaired, and other pedestrians are able to detect and recognize nearby hybrid and electric vehicles, as required by the PSEA. |
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