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[1] Mr. Stanley J. Kozloski, 694 Evelyn Drive, Lady Lake, FL 32162
This responds to your letter in which you asked about the applicability of Federal motor vehicle safety standards (FMVSSs) to "golf carts" with modified speed capabilities. By way of background, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has authority to prescribe safety standards applicable to new motor vehicles and new items of motor vehicle equipment (49 U.S.C. Chapter 301). 500 (copy enclosed) to ensure that low-speed vehicles (LSVs) are equipped with an appropriate ...

[2] Ms. Reneta Zimmerman, 301 Golden Isles Drive, #407, Hallandale, Florida 33009
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recognizes your concerns about placing your infant in front of the passenger-side air bag of your Mazda Miata. Since your vehicle has no back seat, NHTSA will grant an exemption to allow the dealer or a repair business to deactivate the passenger-side air bag. Accordingly, it will not begin enforcement proceedings against any dealer or repair business which deactivates the passenger-side air bag.

[3] Mr. Derek Yuen, Xtest, Inc., 16035 Caputo Drive, Suite A, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
By way of background, NHTSA is authorized to issue Federal motor vehicle safety standards that set performance requirements for new motor vehicles and items of motor vehicle equipment. (c) If the system consists of two headlamps, one of which provides an upper beam and one of which provides the lower beam, the headlamps shall be located on the vertical centerline with the upper beam no higher than the lower beam, or horizontally disposed about the vertical centerline and mounted at the same ...

[4] Mr. Dan Goor, Vice President for Technology, Xportation Safety Concepts, Inc., 4143 Sinton Rd., Colorado Springs, CO 80907
This responds to your September 21, 2000, letter to Ms. Heidi Coleman of my staff, informing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of your intent to file an "application for rulemaking" concerning our safety standard for child restraint systems (Standard No. 213 requires rear-facing child restraints to be conspicuously labeled with warnings to consumers not to place the restraint on the front seat with an air bag (S5.5.2(k)(4)). Assuming that you wish to change this ...

[5] Mr. Xiaoda Xiao, President & CEO, ZX, Invention, 135 Belchertown Road, Amherst, MA 01002
By way of background information, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is authorized to issue FMVSSs that set performance requirements for new motor vehicles and items of motor vehicle equipment. NHTSA does not provide approvals of motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment. For your further information, I am enclosing a fact sheet we prepared titled Information for New Manufacturers of Motor Vehicles and Motor Vehicle Equipment.

[6] Kenneth N
This responds to your request, on behalf of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize (PIAXP) for a statement and/or interpretation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) concerning the implications under the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act (Vehicle Safety Act) of vehicles participating in the PIAXP competitions operating on the public roads. Competition vehicles will participate in stage races designed to test the vehicles under typical driving ...

[7] Bryce Pfister, P.E., Director of Engineering, Collins Bus Corporation, PO Box 2946, Hutchinson, KS 67504-2946
Specifically, you ask whether a door configuration used in your school buses is a "folding door" excluded from the requirements of Standard No. The typical passenger entrance door configuration of the Collins school bus includes two door leafs, each pivoting along its outer edge, and each attached to the door jamb at one upper and one lower pivot point. door leaves pivot outward toward a boarding passenger, and the door opening is formed between the two door leaves in their outward position.

[8] Kevin M. Wolford, Executive Director, Automotive Manufacturers , Equipment Compliance Agency, Inc. , , 1101 15th Street, NW, Suite 607, Washington, DC 20005-5020
Specifically, your letter asked whether a manufacturer designing a lamp with a bulb using an indexed base, but which has a series of LEDs, would need to meet the requirements for a "single compartment" lamp or a "three compartment" lamp (i.e. , whether a bulb with several LEDs has a single light source or multiple light sources). Paragraph S5.8.1 of the standard provides, "Except as provided below, each lamp, reflective device, or item of associated equipment manufactured to replace any lamp...

[9] Mr. Bret W. Wolf, Indiana Vac-Form, Inc., 2030 North Boeing Road, Airport Industrial Park, Warsaw, IN 46580
By way of background information, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has the authority to issue Federal motor vehicle safety standards (FMVSSs) applicable to new motor vehicles and new items of motor vehicle equipment. 205, Glazing Materials (49 CFR 571.205), which specifies performance requirements for various types of glazing (called "items"), and specifies the locations in vehicles in which each item of glazing may be used. The standard also incorporates by ...

[10] Amir Ambar, Winbel, Inc., 6231 McLeod Drive # E, Las Vegas, NV 89120
Under 49 U.S.C. § 30112, a person may not import into the United States, "any motor vehicle or motor vehicle equipment manufactured on or after the date an applicable motor vehicle safety standard prescribed under this chapter takes effect unless the vehicle or equipment complies with the standard[.]" When determining if a vehicle is manufactured primarily for use on the public streets, roads and highways, the agency will first look to see if the vehicle has on-road capabilities. While your ...

[11] Mr. Kent Will, Project Engineer, Oshkosh Truck Corporation, 2307 Oregon Street, P.O. Box 2566, Oshkosh, WI 54903-2566
You ask whether this mirror would be considered a convex mirror and, if so, whether it would be subject to the labeling and radius of curvature requirements for convex mirrors contained in Paragraphs S5.4.2 and S5.4.3 of FMVSS No. 111's performance requirements for rearview mirrors installed on trucks vary according to the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the particular truck involved. Accordingly, installing such a mirror as an outside, rearview mirror on a truck with a GVWR between 7,...

[12] Ms. Angela Wheeler, California Department of Transportation, Division of Equipment, 34th Street and Stockton Boulevard, P.O. Box 160048, Sacramento, CA 95816-0048
This responds to your letter in which you seek clarification regarding the implications under the Federal motor vehicle safety standards (FMVSSs) of modifying the seat assemblies of 20 medium-duty trucks to convert them from having intermediate seat backs to high seat backs. (d) In its rearmost position—a force that produces a 373 newton meters moment about the seating reference point for each designated seating position that the seat provides, applied to the upper cross-member of the ...

[13] Mr. Paul Collett, Liberty Motor Company Inc., 2390 South Service Road West, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, L6L 5M9
206, Door locks and door retention components, to the modification of a vehicle to accommodate a wheelchair ramp. 206, and (2) would such a modification result in a door system analogous to a cargo-door or "double side door" for purposes of the standard? 206 to hinged back doors, we rejected the idea of treating hinged back doors as cargo-type doors (60 FR 50124; September 28, 1995).

[14] Mr. Kenneth Conaway, Adaptive Mobility, Inc., 7050 Guion Road , Indianapolis, IN 46268
First, you ask whether you may make the door locks and door retention components on a vehicle's side doors inoperable if 1) all the seating accommodations are removed except for a wheelchair lockdown and occupant restraint system that is installed directly across from the side doors and 2) a wheelchair lift with power door operators is installed in the side doors. Thus, you may make the door locks and door retention components inoperative as long as you install a wheelchair lift system that ...

[15] Mr. Heinz-Gerd Weiler, Siemens Restraint Systems GmbH, Carl-Zeiss-Str. 9, D-63755 Alzenau, Germany
For motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment produced on or after that effective date, manufacturers are required to certify compliance with the standard as modified, including any new testing requirements. As further clarification, we note that each of this agency’s safety standards specifies the test conditions and procedures that NHTSA will use to evaluate the performance of the vehicle or equipment being tested for compliance with the particular safety standard. Manufacturers are not ...

[16] Mr. David Hirsch, International Ecological Systems, Inc., 24599 Pacific Coast Highway, Suite B201, Malibu, CA 90265
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration established Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. We note that if we issued our proposed amendment as a final rule, there would be an inconsistency in the definition of "low speed vehicle" between the California statute and the Federal motor vehicle safety standards. Different motor vehicle safety standards apply depending on how a vehicle is classified, i.e. , its vehicle type.

[17] Mr. Jon Shippee, Wee Engineer Inc., P.O. Box 39, Dayton, IN 47941
From the information you have provided, it appears that Wee Engineer modifies used vehicles and then installs new body and work performing components on those vehicles. Because the Federal motor vehicle safety standards that are issued by NHTSA apply only to new vehicles, those are the only vehicles that must be certified as complying with the standards under 49 CFR Part 567. The manufacturer identification requirements in 49 CFR Part 566 apply only to manufacturers of motor vehicles and ...

[18] Lt. Ronald E. Wedekind, Florida Highway Patrol, Bureau of Investigations, 1551 E. International Speedway Blvd., DeLand, FL 32724-8714
As you describe the situation, when the company sells vehicles with electronic odometers, it enters the odometer reading on the titles as "999999, Warning - Not Actual Mileage." The Federal odometer law requires a person who transfers ownership of a vehicle to disclose the vehicle's odometer reading. The company must activate the electronic odometer, note the odometer reading, and state that reading on the title when it transfers ownership.

[19] Mr. Sean P. Webb, 6 Oak Hollow Drive, St. Peters, MO 63376
This responds to your May 13, 2004, letter, in which you seek clarification regarding certain provisions of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. Specifically, you stated that your vehicle’s halogen headlamps (high beams and low beams) and fog lamps periodically "flicker off and on" or change intensity when activated. 108 requires headlamps to be steady-burning and whether "flickering" of the headlamps would impair the standard’s minimum illumination requirements.

[20] Mr. Gary Satterfield, Vice President, Waste Equipment Technology Association, 4301 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20008
suggests that the waste vehicle equipment manufacturer should be classified as an "equipment manufacturer" for TREAD Act purposes. Under the third scenario, the waste vehicle equipment manufacturer certifies compliance of the completed vehicle as its manufacturer. If the completed vehicle certified by the waste vehicle equipment manufacturer has a GVWR greater than 10,000 lbs, then the manufacturer would report as the manufacturer of a "medium-heavy vehicle."