Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Denial of Petition For Rulemaking

摘要

Based on the agency's evaluation, NHTSA denies a petition for rulemaking from the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM) to amend S4(d) and S4(f)(4) of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 214, "Side impact protection," which specifies the travel distance of the loading device in the quasi-static door crush test. NHTSA believes that the rulemaking is unnecessary because granting the proposed amendments would not result in a substantive change in the performance requirements of the standard nor change the way that both the manufacturers and the agency may test the vehicle.