WASHINGTON, May 28 -- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued a notice called: New Car Assessment Program.
The notice was published in the Federal Register on May 28 by Jonathan Morrison, Administrator.
Summary: This notice requests comment on a proposal to update the NHTSA's New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) by adding rear automatic braking (RAB) systems with pedestrian avoidance ability to the advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) technologies NHTSA currently recommends. NHTSA proposes to identify and evaluate vehicles in the marketplace that offer systems that pass NCAP performance test criteria for RAB. The proposed updates to NCAP would give consumers important safety information about technologies designed to p...