The proposals are open for public comment until today July 25th, and your feedback can help ensure NHTSA’s new rules are best designed to keep our streets safe. Submit your comments to the federal register: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/05/26/2023-11201/new-car-assessment-program
You are more likely to have an impact by lobbying auto insurance companies to either mark these cars as uninsurable or Jack up their rates because they’re more likely to kill a pedestrian in an accident.
Seems like cars are almost never ruled to be at fault when they hit pedestrians, so I’m not sure how much it impacts insurance companies’ bottom line.
So NHTSA is pretending to care about pedestrians for the first time in their existence? This is a nice surprise.
Supposedly the cafe standards are based on the wheelbase of vehicles, so they started making vehicles larger to comply. With smaller cars it’s harder to meet the cafe standards.
