| Subgroup on EDR: Notes from the 47th (June 2026) session |
| Reference Number: SG-EDR-47-05 |
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Document SG-EDR-47-02 and SG-EDR-47-03 were discussed. The group agreed to include definitions 2.8, 2.10, 2.11, and 2.20 with edits. Proposed definitions will be circulated by June 15 for review with comments due June 26. For data elements, disagreements on frequency rates between contracting parties and industry remain in square brackets. EDR for ADS will be addressed under GRVA and the ADS IWG. An October in-person meeting in Berlin is planned, pending WP.29 direction on integrating DSSAD into the ADS IWG. |
| Meeting Sessions: 47th SG-EDR session (11 Jun) |
| Document date: 27 Aug 26 |
| Relevant to: UN Regulation No. 160 | Event Data Recorders and UN Regulation No. 169 | Event Data Recorders (EDR) for heavy vehicles |
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| UN R160: Comments on GRSG/2026/38 |
| Reference Number: SG-EDR-48-03 |
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Proposal to amend Annex 4 Table 1 to modify the Vulnerable road user secondary safety system warning indicator status data element to record interval -1.1 to 0 sec, modify the VRU Accident emergency call system status data element to recording interval 0-300 ms or 0 to end of event time plus 30 ms whichever is shorter, add Advanced driver distraction warning (ADDW) status as mandatory with On and Off values for Planar, VRU, Rollover, and AEBS events, add ADDW time since warning issued as mandatory with 0 to 240 sec range and +/-1% accuracy at 1 sec resolution, add Driver control assistance system driver monitoring system time since disengagement warning issued as mandatory with 0 to 1000 sec or 0 to 240 sec range and +/-1% accuracy at 1 sec resolution, add Driver drowsiness and attention warning (DDAW) status as mandatory with On and Off values for Planar, VRU, Rollover, and AEBS events, and add DDAW time since warning issued as mandatory with 0 to 60 min or 0 to 600 seconds range, +/-1% accuracy, and 1 min or 1 sec resolution. |
| Submitted by: Australia |
| Meeting Sessions: 48th SG-EDR session (15-16 Sep) |
| Document date: 27 Aug 26 |
| Relevant to: UN Regulation No. 160 | Event Data Recorders and UN Regulation No. 169 | Event Data Recorders (EDR) for heavy vehicles |
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| UN R160: Proposal for amendments to Step 2 draft |
| Reference Number: SG-EDR-48-04 |
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Proposal to amend UN R160:
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| Submitted by: UK |
| Meeting Sessions: 48th SG-EDR session (15-16 Sep) |
| Document date: 28 Aug 26 |
| Relevant to: UN Regulation No. 160 | Event Data Recorders |
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| UN R160: Proposal for amendments |
| Reference Number: SG-EDR-48-05 |
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Proposal based on GRSG/2026/38 to amend para. 2.18. to define end of event time separately for planar events and all other events, amend para. 2.20. to redefine engine throttle percent full, insert new definitions for Advanced emergency braking system (AEBS) and Trigger activated, amend para. 5.4.3. to modify crash test data requirements and reference UN Regulations Nos. 95 and either 94 or 137, and amend Table 1 in Annex 4 to modify data element requirements including changing Air bag warning lamp and other elements from conditional to Mandatory, adding AEBS event recording, modifying Yaw Rate recording intervals and sample rate, clarifying Vulnerable road user secondary safety system warning indicator status recording, modifying Accident emergency call system status recording interval, and revising footnotes regarding TTC calculation and AEBS requirements, effective upon entry into force of the 03 Series of Amendments. |
| Submitted by: EC and Germany |
| Meeting Sessions: 48th SG-EDR session (15-16 Sep) |
| Document date: 31 Aug 26 |
| Relevant to: UN Regulation No. 160 | Event Data Recorders |
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| Input for EDR Step 3 topics |
| Reference Number: SG-EDR-48-06 |
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European Commission priorities for EDR Step 3 include improving detection of vehicle-to-vulnerable road user collisions and low-severity vehicle-to-vehicle collisions through adjusting delta-v trigger thresholds, developing new jerk-based trigger criteria, and exploring ADS collision detection for EDR triggering in automated vehicles on a long-term timeline. Data elements and format must be ensured to remain up-to-date with new safety system developments and close gaps between light and heavy vehicles through reviewing data elements in light of newly regulated safety systems and mirroring DDAW, ADDW and DCAS data elements from UN R160 to UN R169 on short-term and ongoing timelines. |
| Submitted by: EC |
| Meeting Sessions: 48th SG-EDR session (15-16 Sep) |
| Document date: 31 Aug 26 |
| Relevant to: UN Regulation No. 160 | Event Data Recorders and UN Regulation No. 169 | Event Data Recorders (EDR) for heavy vehicles |
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| UN R160: DCAS data-recording provisions |
| Reference Number: SG-EDR-48-07 |
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Proposal to amend footnote 25 to reduce the maximum number of recorded DCAS warnings from 15 to 10 per current ignition cycle. The justification presented cites data burden reduction while retaining information about habitual driver disengagement patterns. Supporting documentation references two autopilot collision cases—Florida 2016 and California 2018—where recorded warnings within existing data retention periods would have revealed repeated disengagement that current recording parameters miss, demonstrating that 10 warnings combined with extended recording duration enables identification of ineffective warning strategies. |
| Submitted by: UK |
| Meeting Sessions: 48th SG-EDR session (15-16 Sep) |
| Document date: 02 Sep 26 |
| Relevant to: UN Regulation No. 160 | Event Data Recorders and UN Regulation No. 171 | Driver-Control Assistance Systems (DCAS) |
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| UN R169: Proposal to clarify last-stop trigger activation |
| Reference Number: SG-EDR-48-08 |
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Proposal to clarify that the EDR volatile memory buffer for last stop trigger activation shall accommodate data related to at least five different stops to be overwritten on a first-in first-out basis, and that data for the most recent stops shall be written to non-volatile memory in a way that does not interfere with the event record related to any other trigger of paragraph 5.3.1. |
| Submitted by: EC and Germany |
| Meeting Sessions: 48th SG-EDR session (15-16 Sep) |
| Document date: 04 Sep 26 |
| Relevant to: UN Regulation No. 169 | Event Data Recorders (EDR) for heavy vehicles |
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| EDR: Proposal for ADS-specific requirement on DSSAD |
| Reference Number: SG-EDR-48-09 |
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For vehicles equipped with an Automated Driving System, it shall be possible to retrieve DSSAD time-stamp data elements specified under paragraph 5.2. of Annex 8 of UN Regulation No. 185 recorded within at least the last 30 seconds prior to triggering of the respective EDR event, regardless of whether the DSSAD and the EDR are implemented as a single system or as separate systems. The time-stamp data elements retrievable from the DSSAD shall include the record for the last activation or deactivation of the feature used at the time of the event within the same power cycle. The data elements shall be retrievable in the format specified in Annex 8 of UN Regulation No. 185, though DSSAD location data may be omitted and dates and times recorded may be replaced with information representing the time elapsed between the recording of each DSSAD data element and the triggering of the EDR. |
| Submitted by: AAPC, EC, Germany, OICA, and CLEPA |
| Meeting Sessions: 48th SG-EDR session (15-16 Sep) |
| Document date: 04 Sep 26 |
| Relevant to: UN Regulation No. 160 | Event Data Recorders, WP.29 Regulatory Project | Data Storage Systems for Automated Driving, and UN Regulation No. 169 | Event Data Recorders (EDR) for heavy vehicles |
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| EDR: Proposal for Step 3 topics |
| Reference Number: SG-EDR-48-10 |
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Proposals for EDR Step 3:
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| Submitted by: Germany |
| Meeting Sessions: 48th SG-EDR session (15-16 Sep) |
| Document date: 04 Sep 26 |
| Relevant to: UN Regulation No. 160 | Event Data Recorders and UN Regulation No. 169 | Event Data Recorders (EDR) for heavy vehicles |
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| EDR and Driver Drowsiness and Attention Warning (DDAW) recording duration |
| Reference Number: SG-EDR-48-11 |
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A study of 24 professional truck drivers investigated how drowsiness develops during real-road driving to test a DDAW system. At night, 17 of 24 drivers reached a KSS level of 8, with average time to reach KSS 8 being 56 minutes. Ten drivers chose to stop or were requested to stop in the sleep-deprived condition. A DDAW recording window of 600 s would fail to capture information relevant to the EDR, whereas time windows of up to one hour could provide important indications of increased driver fatigue. |
| Submitted by: BASt |
| Meeting Sessions: 48th SG-EDR session (15-16 Sep) |
| Document date: 04 Sep 26 |
| Relevant to: UN Regulation No. 160 | Event Data Recorders, UN Regulation No. 169 | Event Data Recorders (EDR) for heavy vehicles, and UN Regulation No. 182 | Driver Drowsiness and Attention Warning Systems |
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