USA: New FMVSS proposed for automatic emergency braking (AEB)
The Department of Transportation (DOT) of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed to adopt a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) to require automatic emergency braking (AEB), including pedestrian AEB (PAEB), systems on light vehicles.
An AEB system uses various sensor technologies and sub-systems that work together to detect when the vehicle is in a crash imminent situation, to automatically apply the vehicle brakes if the driver has not done so, or to apply more braking force to supplement the driver’s braking. The AEB system proposed in this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) would detect and react to an imminent crash with a lead vehicle or pedestrian.
The NPRM promotes NHTSA’s goal to equip vehicles with AEB and PAEB, and advances DOT’s January 2022 National Roadway Safety Strategy that identified requiring AEB, including PAEB technologies, on new passenger vehicles as a key Departmental action to enable safer vehicles. The proposed rulemaking also responds to a mandate under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law directing the Department to promulgate a rule to require that all passenger vehicles be equipped with an AEB system.
A full notice of proposed rulemaking can be found HERE.
To find out more about vehicle regulations in the US and other FMVSS, please contact the Institute for Global Automotive Regulatory Research directly.