Working Party on Passive Safety | Session 72 | 5-9 Dec 2022
Geneva

The 72nd GRSG session is scheduled to be held in Geneva from 5 December (2.30 p.m.) to 9 December (12.30 p.m.) 2022. The deadline for the submission of official documents to the secretariat is 12 September 2022, twelve weeks prior to the session.

Agenda Item 21.
Exchange of Views on Vehicle Automation

49. The expert from the Republic of Korea introduced GRSP-72-12, indicating issues on the level of impact safety performance of bumper systems with autonomous driving systems. GRSP agreed to discuss the issues (GRSP-72-12) in the framework of activities of the Task Force Autonomous Vehicle Regulatory Screening (TF AVRS).

50. The expert from Germany introduced GRSP-72-43 on the outcome of TF AVRS work. He explained that at the first meeting of TF, it was clarified the way forward among the leaders of the Task Forces on AVRS of the other Working Parties. He added that excel files with the result of the screening the UN Regulations and UN GTRs under the responsibility of GRSP would be available for further discussion on the UN wikipage of GRSP TF AVRS. However, he indicated that endorsement of the outcome of work of TF at the May 2023 session of GRSP, would require a postponement of the deadline indicated by WP.29 (March 2023 session of WP.29).

51. GRSP agreed that its Chair, through its highlights of the session, would seek endorsement of WP.29 to postpone the outcome of results of TF-AVRS to the June 2023 session of WP.29.

Documentation
GRSP-72-12 UN R42: Bumper Issue (KATRI)
GRSP-72-43 Automated vehicles - TF AV- regulatory screening Status report (Germany)