This document terminates a rulemaking Proceeding in which the agency proposed to exclude from its standard on steering control rearward displacement
air bag-equipped passenger cars and other light vehicles certified as coplying with the agency's occupant crash protection standard based upon the frontal barrier crash test. The agency proposed this exclusion because the engineering need to provide a
stable air bag platform in order to perform consistently during an unrestained dynamic crash test would ensure that vehicle manufacturers design their vehicles so that there would be little steering control rearward displacement. That necessity would obviate the need for manufacturers to conduct another crash test just to certify steering control rearward displacement performance. However, since the proposal, the agency has temporarily allowed the manufacturers to certify their vehicles to the occupant protection based upon an unrestrained sled test and a restrained(for belted) barrier test.
U.S. DOT/NHSTA - Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Steering Control Rearward Displacement - Termination of Rulemaking
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