Regulations For Automatic Emergency Braking Technologies Delayed By NHTSA And FMCSA

The potential for rulemaking in 2024 from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has been deferred to 2025 at the earliest, including on key state-of-the-art technologies such as automatic emergency braking (AEB) in heavy and medium-duty trucks. The NHTSA and FMCSA intended initially to publish a final rule to require and/or standardize equipment performance for AEBs on trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds by April 2024. That has now been pushed to January 2025, at the earliest. The delay is despite the fact that the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking comment period ended nearly two years ago, in September 2023.