EVALUATING SAFETY REGULATIONS, THEN AND NOW

The FMVSS were established to provide the public with uniform safety equipment and design standards based on sound research. Ongoing evaluation is essential to maintain the effectiveness and safety of FMVSS and to ensure that current technology is incorporated in standards development. Serious injury (AIS 3 or greater) reporting by NASS should be upgraded to facilitate standards evaluation and development. Although cost effectiveness is a mandated criteria for standards evaluation, the protection of human life and limb must remain the principle criteria for measuring effectiveness. A citizen's advisory panel, similar to the NMVSAC should be established to assist NHTSA in establishing priorities for standards evaluation, development and promulgation.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/01487191
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the SAE Government/Industry Meeting and Exposition, Washington, D.C., May 21-24, 1984.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

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• Authors:
  • STATES, J D
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 5 p.
• Serial:
  • SAE Technical Paper
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
  • ISSN: 0148-7191
  • EISSN: 2688-3627
  • Serial URL: http://papers.sae.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cost effectiveness; Evaluation; Measures of effectiveness; Public participation; Strategic planning
• Identifier Terms: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
• Uncontrolled Terms: Effectiveness
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00395728
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: SAE 840907, HS-038 252
• Files: HSL, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 30 1985 12:00AM