The most challenging part of the FMVSS 127 is the Night Pedestrian Pedestrian Emergency Brake Test (Paeb), which, unlike the new EU AEB regulations, must work in complete darkness. According to NHTSA, more than 70 percent of pedestrians who crashed and killed by drivers are hit at night.
Nadine Wong, director of the track test at the Independent Recert Dynamics Testing Company, says pedestrian protection at night “probably requires further advances in sensor technologies.” Dynamic Research, which works from a 15 -mile north of Bakersfield, California, performs the FMVSS 127 test for customers. “We know that there are currently available vehicles that are currently approaching the standard,” Wong said.
NHTSA acknowledges that FMVS 127 is “mandatory technology”, but emphasizes that “the standard is practical.”
NHSTA, citing reducing costs for the “negative external tolls” of severe car accidents such as emergencies, says the US community will benefit up to $ 7.26 billion at $ 7.26 billion. Call for services, medical care, administrative costs of insurance, workplace costs, and legal costs.
“Given that automotive is the largest manufacturing sector of the United States, it hires 10 million Americans, produces 5 % of US GDP and imports $ 1 trillion annually, which is remarkable,” says Chase. [the auto industry] Until September 2029 cannot meet the requirements of AEB law.
In a press release, William Wallace, director of safety support by Consumer Report, agreed: “Car makers complain to the auto -emergency brake law are deeply frustrating.
Sean Kilder, director of research on highway and automotive safety supporters. “When they say this is impractical, we can never meet this standard, this is a mistake because some car companies are currently selling cars in the United States that do so, and they definitely carry out cars in the United States. They sell it abroad. . [Auto companies] I just don’t want to pay for any vehicle. “
However, Bozzella has called the FMVSS 127 alliance a “catastrophic” law that “endless – and unnecessary – disappoints drivers. [and] Make vehicles more expensive. ” Strangely enough, Bozzella also claims that more strict standards, even harder than similar standards in the EU, “really improves driver or pedestrian safety.”
“However, the complaint of the alliance must fail,” says Chase. NHTSA is a risk of escaping. They like to have everything closed in a button. “If they thought it could be easily challenged, they would not have enforced the law.”
Late last year, NHTSA published a collection of studies that show that more than 8,600,000 lives have been rescued by federal motor vehicles safety standards since 1968. NHTSA estimates that the front airbags alone saved more than 50,000 people over a 30 -year period.
President Trump has nominated Steven Bardberry as the Minister of Transport. Bradbari is one of the right -wing colleagues of the Heritage Foundation who wrote the 2025 project, a 900 -page plan for the government that Trump rejected during the election.
2025 project transportation programs include reducing fuel consumption standards and eliminating highway costs from pedestrian and cycling projects. The 2025 project was also in favor of smaller government and less regulations, a request probably provided by the Ilan Mask or DOG government.
It is unclear what President Trump, Dot or Doge will do with the FMVSS 127, but Norton, the author of an automatic driving book, says: “If we can’t get carmakers to accept the automation of the car for safety, then we can. Don’t expect them to be serious about completely robotic cars. “
