Transport i bezpieczeństwo · 20/05/1997

Consumer Information; Motor Vehicle Safety; Rollover Prevention

The agency grants an August 20, 1996 petition for rulemaking from Consumers Union of United States, Inc., requesting NHTSA to commence a rulemaking proceeding to consider establishing ``an emergency handling test [for sport-utility vehicles] and to require that information derived from that test be included in the consumer warnings required by the agency.'' The agency seeks to evaluate the issues raised in the petition in view of the agency's continuing interest in rollover safety, as evidenced by its 1994 rulemaking proposal to amend its consumer information regulations to require passenger vehicles to be labeled with information about their resistance to rollover, and other related rulemaking activities. The agency will respond in a separate notice to a request from the petitioner that NHTSA should commence a proceeding to decide whether to issue an order concerning an alleged defect in model year (MY) 1995-96 Isuzu Trooper and Acura SLX sport-utility vehicles.