Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Power-operated Window, Partition and Roof Panel Systems

Résumé

This document responds to a petition for rulemaking from Michael Garth Moore, Esq. requesting two amendments to Standard No. 118, Power-operated window, partition, and roof panel systems. This document denies one request, but grants the other. It denies the petitioner's request to commence rulemaking to require that all power windows automatically reverse power when they encounter resistance because the agency has concluded that such a requirement would be unreasonably costly. This document grants the petitioner's other request and proposes to require each power operated window, interior partition, and roof panel in a motor vehicle to be equipped with a switch designed so that contact by a form representing a child's knee would not cause the window, partition or panel to close.