Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Withdrawal of Proposed Rule, Announcement of Technical Workshop on Accelerator Control Systems

Zusammenfassung

In this document, NHTSA withdraws a proposal to amend the safety standard on accelerator control systems that would have deleted a provision that specifies return-to-idle times for a normally operating accelerator control system. The proposal was part of NHTSA's efforts to implement the President's Regulatory Reinvention Initiative. NHTSA has decided to withdraw its proposal in order to focus on the broader issue of making the accelerator control system standard more relevant for electronic accelerator systems. NHTSA announces a technical workshop, tentatively scheduled for March 24, 1997, to discuss electronic accelerator control technology and potential methods of assuring fail-safe performance.