Kristen A. Germann - Comments

Document ID: NHTSA-2009-0154-0007
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Received Date: October 26 2009, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: October 27 2009, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: September 1 2009, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: November 2 2009, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80a4bdf1
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This is comment on Rule

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Power-Operated Window, Partition, and Roof Panel Systems

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Regarding: Docket No. NHTSA-2009-0154 RIN 2127-AK52 Dear Mr. Kratzke, I hereby would like to ask for your support to implement a rule, which I strongly believe in. Too many injuries and fatalities occur in vehicles, simply because they do not have an "Auto Reversal System" feature, which is readily available for all vehicles with power windows. NHTSA has issued the referenced NPRM as required by the “K.T. Safety Act of 2007”, regarding auto reversal systems for power windows. I understand that there is a review period, where you will consider comments about the proposed ruling. Please re-consider the numbers of injuries being reported in your NPRM, since I believe those numbers are significantly understated and people are injured more frequently then the data might suggest. Vehicles with the auto reversal systems clearly provide significantly higher safety than those without and it is unjust to rely on the operator to protect our children in vehicles. I thereby ask you to fully implement the rule as proposed in the “K.T. Safety Act of 2007”, which would require ALL power windows to have auto reversal system, not just those which have the express up feature Thank you for your time and efforts.