Petition for Rulemaking to Require Use of Forward Collision Avoidance and Mitigation Systems for Commercial Motor Vehicles

On February 19, 2015, four organizations (the Truck Safety Coalition, the Center for Auto Safety, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, and Road Safe America) jointly filed a petition for rulemaking calling on NHTSA to establish a safety regulation to require the use of forward collision avoidance and mitigation braking systems (F-CAM) on trucks and buses with a GVWR of 10,000 lbs or more.  According the petioners, an F-CAM mandate would save 166 lives and prevent 8,000 injuries annually at a cost of less than $300 per truck.  The petition references a European mandate for automatic emergency brake systems that was enacted in 2012 which is being phase-in from 2015 to 2018. 

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