NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of Transportation: enhance underride protection on trailers, semitrailers, and single unit trucks and improve motor carrier, passenger motor vehicle, and vulnerable road user safety (see S. 3775), S489 [4FE] (see H.R. 7354), H2030 [4FE]

Government regulations: require each new electric and hybrid vehicle to be equipped with technology that allows timely extinguishment of electric vehicle battery fire (see H.R. 6948), H11 [6JA]

——— require each new motor vehicle to be equipped with manual door release allowing timely exit regardless of failure of any electrical system (see H.R. 6947), H11 [6JA]

Safety: clarify authority over vehicles with automated driving systems to provide safety measures for such vehicles (see H.R. 7390), H2040 [5FE]

——— modernize motor vehicle safety programs (see H.R. 7389), H2040 [5FE]

——— require that all new covered motorcoaches have minimally obstructed forward-facing view from driver’s seat (see H.R. 7263), H1915 [27JA]

Remarks in House

Government regulations: require each new electric and hybrid vehicle to be equipped with technology that allows timely extinguishment of electric vehicle battery fire (H.R. 6948), H142 [8JA]