Working Party on General Safety
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6-9 Oct 2025  · Geneva
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GRSG/109 General Safety: Report of the 130th (October 2025) session
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16. (g) Driver distraction and drowsiness warning systems

44. The experts from Australia introduced the status report (GRSG-130-16) of IWG Driver Distraction and Drowsiness Warning Systems (DDADWS). He introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/50 (including amendment GRSG-130-37) on Driver Drowsiness and Attention Warning (DDAW) systems, and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/51 (including amendment GRSG-130-38) on Advanced Driver Distraction Warning (ADDW) systems. They explained that the two proposals for new UN Regulations would provide clear regulatory requirements applicable internationally and aligned with the technical requirements of EU Regulations 2021/1341 and 2023/2590. He added that to interpret and replace EU requirements, DDAWs UN Regulation provided extensive explanatory notes. GRSG noted also GRSG-130-33-Rev.1, tabled by the expert from OICA to amend ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/2025/51, to provide an exemption from certification of vehicles having unique designs and architectures, where generally the “R” point of the driver seat is not more than 450 mm from ground level. Finally GRSG adopted GRSG-130-37 and GRSG-130-38. The secretariat was requested to submit both proposals as new UN Regulations on DDAW systems and on ADDW systems for consideration and vote to the March 2026 sessions of WP.29 and AC.1. Finally, GRSG agreed to keep GRSG-130-33-Rev.1 in the agenda of the April 2026 session of GRSG.