Motor Vehicle Safety

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Ensuring safety on the road is a fundamental concern that traverses multiple sectors. Monitoring updates on Motor Vehicle Safety in the Federal Register is paramount for industries like automotive manufacturing, logistics, insurance companies, and regulatory bodies. Understanding evolving regulations helps avoid costly non-compliance, enhances strategic planning, and ensures timely reactions to open comment periods real-time shifts in policy.

Why Monitor Motor Vehicle Safety?

The Federal Register regularly publishes critical updates impacting motor vehicle safety. This includes new regulations, proposed rules, and notices that may signal shifts in compliance or safety standards.

Key Industries Impacted

  1. Automotive Manufacturing: Staying updated on safety regulations helps manufacturers develop vehicles that meet federal safety standards, thus avoiding recalls and enhancing brand reputation.
  2. Logistics and Transport Companies: These businesses must adhere to strict safety regulations to operate legally and ensure the safety of their fleets.
  3. Insurance Companies: Changes in motor vehicle safety laws can significantly affect insurance policies, pricing, and claims processes.
  4. Regulatory Consultants and Legal Professionals: Professionals who guide companies in compliance need to stay ahead in order to offer timely advice.

Recent Trends in Motor Vehicle Safety

New technologies, like autonomous driving systems and electric vehicles, are now at the forefront of regulatory discussions. The Federal Register provides platforms for open comment periods on these evolving technologies, allowing stakeholders to voice concerns or support.

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Latest Documents

Title Type Published
This final rule establishes two new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) specifying performance requirements for all motor vehicles that use hydrogen as a fuel source. The final rule is based on Global Technical Regulation (GTR) No. 13, Hyd...
Rule Jan 17, 2025
This document proposes a voluntary framework for the evaluation and oversight of motor vehicles equipped with automated driving systems (ADS). The ADS-equipped Vehicle Safety, Transparency, and Evaluation Program (AV STEP) would establish a national...
Proposed Rule Jan 15, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor (Department) is publishing this final rule to adjust for inflation the civil monetary penalties assessed or enforced by the Department, pursuant to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 as amended b...
Rule Jan 10, 2025
In a final rule published in the Federal Register on November 18, 2024, FMCSA amended its regulations by making technical corrections throughout the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). The final rule included an amendatory instruction...
Rule Jan 10, 2025
In accordance with the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) and the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act), NHTSA is proposing to amend the means of required recall notification to include notification by electro...
Proposed Rule Jan 10, 2025
This final rule amends Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 225; Child restraint systems, and FMVSS No. 213b; Child restraint systems, to improve ease-of-use of the lower and tether anchorages, improve correct use of child restraint syst...
Rule Jan 07, 2025
This document amends Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 208, "Occupant crash protection," to require a seat belt use warning system for rear seats. The rule also updates and enhances the current seat belt warning requirements for the d...
Rule Jan 03, 2025
This document revises the chest jacket and spine box specifications for the Hybrid III 5th Percentile Female Test Dummy (HIII-5F). The jacket revisions resolve discrepancies between the jacket specifications in subpart O and jackets available in the...
Rule Jan 03, 2025
FMCSA amends its November 16, 2023, final rule, "Broker and Freight Forwarder Financial Responsibility," by extending the compliance date for certain provisions from January 16, 2025, to January 16, 2026. FMCSA is taking this action because the Agenc...
Rule Dec 31, 2024
This final rule provides the statutorily prescribed 2025 adjustment to civil penalty amounts that may be imposed for violations of certain DOT regulations.
Rule Dec 30, 2024
Consistent with a Global Technical Regulation on electric vehicle safety, NHTSA is establishing Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 305a to replace FMVSS No. 305, "Electric-powered vehicles: Electrolyte spillage and electrical shock pro...
Rule Dec 20, 2024
This final rule amends regulations regarding event data recorders (EDRs) to extend the EDR recording period for timed data metrics from 5 seconds of pre-crash data at a frequency of 2 Hz to 20 seconds of pre-crash data at a frequency of 10 Hz. This f...
Rule Dec 18, 2024
This final rule addresses an important source of motor vehicle safety information and fulfills a requirement in the Motor Vehicle Safety Whistleblower Act (Whistleblower Act) that NHTSA promulgate regulations on the requirements of the Act, in comple...
Rule Dec 17, 2024
On October 9, 2024, NHTSA issued a final rule responding to petitions for reconsideration of a June 2022 final rule establishing Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 213a and the December 2023 final rule establishing FMVSS No. 213b. That...
Rule Dec 04, 2024
This document grants parts of petitions for reconsideration of a May 9, 2024, final rule that adopted Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 127, "Automatic Emergency Braking for Light Vehicles," which requires automatic emergency braking...
Rule Nov 26, 2024
This final rule establishes Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 217a, "Anti-ejection glazing for bus portals; Mandatory applicability beginning October 30, 2027," to drive the installation of advanced glazing in over-the-road buses (mot...
Rule Oct 30, 2024
PHMSA proposes to revise the Hazardous Materials Regulations to adopt several modal-specific amendments that would enhance the safe transportation of hazardous materials in commerce. PHMSA, in consultation with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admini...
Proposed Rule Oct 28, 2024
This final rule responds to petitions for reconsideration of the June 2022 final rule establishing Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 213a and the December 2023 final rule establishing FMVSS No. 213b. This final rule grants petitions t...
Rule Oct 09, 2024
NHTSA proposes a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) that would ensure passenger vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 4,536 kilograms (kg) (10,000 pounds (lb)) or less are designed to mitigate the risk of serious to fat...
Proposed Rule Sep 19, 2024
This document amends the procedures for testing the strength of seat belt anchorages in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 210, "Seat Belt Assembly Anchorages." The amendments clarify the positioning of the test device currently specified in t...
Rule Sep 17, 2024
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