European Commission press release announcing agreement on new harmonised rules for commercial vehicle Advanced Emergency Braking Systems (AEBS) and Lane Departure Warning Systems (LDWS) as well as on a new child restraint system and new requirements for electric vehicle batteries.

Bumper Test Area task force under the Pedestrian Safety informal group.

Pedestrian safety Flex-PLI dynamic test instructions.

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).

Copy of the report presented to WP.29 in November (informal document WP.29-158-28)

Proposal to clarify that coupling systems of the battery-charging system (i.e., rechargeable energy storage system, REESS) which are not energized during driving need not meet the requirements established for systems designed to be energized during driving (and thus significant in case of accident).

JAMA responses to NHTSA questions from the fourth GTR 9-Phase 2 informal group session.

JAMA response to NHTSA question at the fourth GTR 9-Phase 2 informal group meeting requesting that labs test the Flex-PLI tool against “aggressive points on larger vehicles to see how well FlexPLI holds up”.

JAMA response to NHTSA question from the previous GTR 9-Phase 2 informal group session providing repeatability data from FlexPLI testing.

JASIC response to NHTSA request for experimental validation of model results of the JASIC/JARI CAE correlation study evaluating upper body mass effects in high bumper impacts.

Comparison of the FlexPLI results against the European Enhanced Vehicle-Safety Committee lower legform impactor (EEVC LFI) for same vehicles in response to NHTSA request from fourth GTR9 Phase 2 informal group session.

Additional analysis on cost reduction due to tibia fracture mitigation and on vehicle countermeasure costs.