Presentation on NHTSA evaluations of the Flexible Pedestrian Lower Legform Impactor (Flex-PLI) as compared against the TRL impactor.

Presentation by NHTSA’s Nha Nguyen on agency strategies for enhancing motorcoach safety: Seat Belts, Stability Control Systems, Rollover Structural Integrity, Emergency Evacuation, Fire Safety, Glazing and Window Retention, Event Data Recorders (EDRs), Tires and Crash Avoidance Systems.

July 2011 notice of the US EPA and NHTSA joint final rule establishing new requirements for the fuel economy and environment label posted on the window sticker of all new automobiles sold in the U.S., corresponding with the US request to list this rule in the Compendium of Candidate GTR.

September 2011 notice of final NHTSA fuel consumption standards and final EPA carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions standards for Combination Tractors; Heavy-duty Pickup Trucks and Vans; and Vocational Vehicles, corresponding with the request to list these regulations in the Compendium of Candidate GTR.

Presentation on NHTSA’s proposal to enhance the FMVSS 210 test procedure for seat-belt anchorages through the use of an improved pair of “force-application devices” (FAD).

Presentation by NHTSA’s Office of the Chief (Legal) Counsel explaining the requirements of the US rulemaking process, especially in relation to the prospects for transposing a GTR into an FMVSS.

NHTSA Office of Applied Vehicle Safety Research-Crashworthiness Division presentation on research into Li-ion battery safety issues and remedies.

NHTSA presentation on the development post-mortem human subject injury risk curves for use in developing injury assessment reference values for evaluating head restraint effectiveness in rear impacts.

Presentation on the results of testing to compare the responses of the BioRID II with those of the Hybrid III when subjected to FMVSS 202a and Modified Annex 9 rear impact pulses using OEM vehicle seats.

Expanded preliminary findings on post-mortem human subject injury risk curves and potential injury assessment reference values for rear-impact protection testing.

Comparison of FMVSS 202a, GTR 7 (Annex 1) and Netherlands-proposed height measurement procedure (per the December 2011 presentation).

US testing of the 50th male and 5th female side-impact anthropomorphic test devices.

Presentation on comparative testing of ES2-re and WorldSID dummies.

Static Oblique Loading of the WorldSID 5th percentile female dummy: Comparison of 2D IRTRACC to Chestband Displacements

Presentation on pole crash tests conducted under FMVSS 214 using the WorldSID 50th percentile male dummy.

Presentation on the effort to develop an open source specification for an onboard data acquisition system for the WorldSID 50th percentile dummy suitable for inclusion into CFR 49, part 572 (i.e., US regulatory system).

NHTSA WorldSID 50th Pole Side Impact Tests.

Presentation on NHTSA research to date.

Two-slide introduction to the parallel electric vehicle informal group working on safety standards.

Agenda for the 9th session of the informal group for side-impact dummy harmonization.

Overview of NHTSA electric vehicle safety research, including cooperation with SAE, toward the establishment of test procedures to evaluate the safety performance of rechargeable energy storage systems and other electrical vehicle components and systems.

Draft agenda for the third meeting (including the ad hoc session held to launch the group, so this meeting is technically EWG-02) of the Enforcement Working Group.

Presentation on NHTSA’s development of a test tool for assessing forward impact mitigation and collision avoidance systems.

Pedestrian Injuries By Source: Serious and Disabling Injuries in US and European Cases, Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine paper by Ann Mallory (Transportation Research Center Inc.), Rikard Fredriksson and Erik Rosén (Autoliv Research), and Bruce Donnelly (NHTSA).

Information on vehicle data used in NHTSA FlexPLI and EEVC pedestrian impactor studies.

Directions to the US Department of Transporation building.

Blank table indicating information required to be placed on the security list for entry into the US DOT building for the GTRQRTV meeting.

Agenda for the fourth meeting (including an initial “session 0” to organize the group) of the Enforcement Working Group.

Review of the development of driver distraction guidelines in the US and expectations for further phases in regulatory development.

Presentation on US research into driver interaction with various levels of vehicular automation towards determining regulatory safety requirements.

Presentation on the organization of work projects under the program to develop global technical regulations on electric vehicle safety (Electric Vehicle Safety informal working group).

Directions to the US Department of Transportation headquarters in Washington, DC.

Status report on investigations into various electric vehicle fires, including Flyer and Orion buses, Chevrolet Volt, Fisker Karma, and Tesla Model S.

Extensive (90 slide) presentation on the evaluation of ATD results (BioRID II, RID3D, Hybrid III) compared with results from testing conducted on cadavers towards the development of injury criteria under GTR 7.

Results of NHTSA assessment of the Flex-PLI concluding that the impactor offers a suitable tool for evaluating risks of leg injuries to pedestrians and represents an improvement over the current leg form test tool.

“BMS Failure Mode Test Report: DC Charging Interface: Test Procedure, Test Report and Graphs”—Excerpt from the DRAFT Test Procedures developed by NHTSA provided as a contribution to the work on electric vehicle safety GTR provisions.

Excerpt from the DRAFT Test Procedures developed by NHTSA provided as a contribution to the work on electric vehicle safety GTR provisions.

Excerpt from the DRAFT Test Procedures developed by NHTSA and provided as a contribution to the work on electric vehicle safety GTR provisions.

Excerpt from the DRAFT Test Procedures developed by NHTSA and provided as a contribution to the work on electric vehicle safety GTR provisions.

Excerpt from the DRAFT Test Procedures developed by NHTSA and provided as a contribution to the work on electric vehicle safety GTR provisions.

Overview of task force issues and objectives concerning malfunction diagnostics and driver/occupant hazard warnings specific to battery electric vehicles.

The purpose of the testing is to stress a rechargeable energy storage system (REESS) from both an electrical and mechanical standpoint to verify that there are no safety issues that arise from mechanical shock, vibration and temperature excursions in real world applications.

GTR7 update July 2015 on test procedure repeatability and reproducibility and Injury Criteria Correlation

US comments on the draft GTR text as presented in document EVS-08-07.

US comments on child restraint systems based upon NHTSA’s National Child Restraint Use Special Study (NCRUSS), including recommendations on their installation, use, and testing thresholds.

At the 8th EVS GTR IWG meeting in Changchun, members of EVS Task Force 1 continued to discuss proposed requirements and test procedures (EVS-08-17) to address the safety performance of EVs during in-use in events of flooding and vehicle washing. As an action item, members were requested to provide comments on the overall proposal, specifically, water depth (10cm) and vehicle speed (20 km/h) for the drive test. The US believes that a 10 cm water depth test presents a reasonable and likely scenario for testing electric vehicle performance.

NHTSA recommendations for the state-of-charge of the energy system of plug-in and fuel-cell vehicles at the time of testing and on the conditioning procedures prior to testing.

US proposal for sequential fault testing of battery management systems.

Presentation on NHTSA defect investigations into sunroof breakage incidents since 2004.

NHTSA note proposing that the specific battery SOC measurement procedure be determined by manufacturer in accordance with the battery design.

Proposed text for a sequential testing program to test the Battery Management System (BMS) response at the safety boundary limits of the REESS during operation. The test evaluates the ability of the vehicle’s BMS to safely monitor and control the REESS under external inputs such that there is no damage to the REESS and no hazardous conditions arise.

NHTSA presentation on the agency’s experience and investigations concerning low-speed vehicles and three-wheeled motorcycles. This presentation broadly considers very light vehicles mainly intended for local (neighborhood), short-distance transportation.

US Proposal for BMS Functionality: Sequential Fault Testing Requirements

Revised U.S. proposal for BMS functionality and sequential fault testing requirements

US proposal taking into account and responding to comments received from JRC (22 April 2016) and OICA (17 May 2016)

The US safety agency raises questions concerning the specific nature of the observed failures and the scope of the test procedures to ensure that glazing with ceramic printed areas resist such failures. NHTSA notes anomalies in the data that might suggest failure modes specific to particular manufacturers and/or production batches while questioning the focus on panoramic sunroofs rather than all glazing where ceramic printing might be a potential cause of failure.

Brief NHTSA update on US data-collection and analysis activities regarding electric vehicle safety.

Presentation made during the ITS/Automated Driving informal group session.

NHTSA suggestion to propose the introduction of updated UN R30 provisions into GTR 16 as a separate initiative in order to avoid delays in agreement on Amendment 2.

WP29 to consider the request from USA for authorisation to develop a UN GTR on the Determination of Electrified Vehicle Power (DEVP)

NHTSA-sponsored project to research, develop, document, and demonstrate REESS assessment and discharge procedures with enabling technology and architecture requirements (if needed), including device concepts, which may be commonly integrated into REESS designs for the safe management, removal, and handling of stranded energy of an inoperative REESS.

Includes review of NHTSA EV safety investigations and research activities.

This report outlines draft test procedures developed under the transposition of GTR 20 and results of in-use testing on the 2019 Chevrolet Bolt.

Copy of document TFPP3-01-04.