Compliance Requirements, Industry Regulations 3 Jan 2025 compliance, regulations, vehicle safety, seat belts, imports, motor vehicle safety, motor vehicles, manufacturing

🚗New Seat Belt Warning System Regulations for Vehicle Manufacturers

This document amends Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 208, "Occupant crash protection," to require a seat belt use warning system for rear seats. The rule also updates and enhances the current seat belt warning requirements for the driver's seat belt and extends these requirements to the front outboard passenger seat. The final rule applies (with some exceptions) to passenger cars, trucks, most buses, and multipurpose passenger vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 4,536 kilograms (10,000 pounds) or less. This document also makes related amendments to FMVSS No. 101, "Controls and displays."

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Compliance, Regulatory Changes 3 Jan 2025 compliance, regulatory changes, transportation, national transit database, federal transit administration

🚍National Transit Database Reporting Changes

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is reopening the comment period for the Federal Register notice regarding FTA's National Transit Database reporting changes and clarifications, which was published on October 31, 2024, with the original comment period closing on December 30, 2024.

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