Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Door Locks and Door Retention Components - Revised Safety Standard

Summary

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has updated its safety standard for door locks and door retention components to align with the world's first global technical regulation for motor vehicles, adding new requirements and test procedures for sliding doors, secondary latched positions, and inertial forces, while expanding the standard's application to smaller buses and eliminating an exclusion for wheelchair-accessible doors.