Proposal to improve accessibility of vehicles of categories M₂ and M₃, class I.

Proposal to clarify the obligations of the manufacturer to provide information on the location and safe use of emergency exits and fire extinguishers per para. 7.19. of Annex 3.

Proposal to:

• Improve the positioning of pure Class I monitors for drivers with presbyopia (difficulty in clearly seeing close objects)
• Introduce installation requirements for surveillance mirrors and surveillance camera-monitor-recording devices
• Allow for single approval number for devices with more than one field-of-view
• Refine obstruction provisions
• Introduce provisions for rounding of magnification factors
• Introduce a new definition for “Surveillance camera-monitor-recording device”
• Clarification of the “external original surface” concept
• Clarification that the radius of curvature is not be mandatory on the back of Class I mirrors
• Allow greater flexibility in conducting the pendulum testing
• Clarify the “operation readiness” with respect to partially folded camera wings
• Allow for alternatives to the test defined in annex 7 for evaluating the radius of curvature on the reflecting surface if needed
• Correct certain errors.

Proposal to extend the use of digital keys to L category vehicles.

Proposal to introduce two new supplemental categories (X and Y) for driverless passenger and commercial vehicles.

Proposal to introduce a definition for “bidirectional vehicle” and to remove the references to
the 3-D “H”-point machine (per their transposition to MR1 on test tools).

Proposal to introduce two supplemental vehicle categories (X and Y) corresponding to driverless passenger and commercial vehicles.

Proposal to clarify provisions referring to the “vehicle master switch”. After a battery-off (circuit disconnection) event, some vehicle settings may turn to a default setting that is not the last setting. The proposal introduces an exemption applicable to FVA systems in such “system reset” cases.