Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards

The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard ( FMVSS ) is a group of technical regulations that define minimum requirements for components and assemblies of motor vehicles. The standard applies to the U.S. and so is the pendant to the ECE regulations which have got out of scope in Europe. Mostly analog rules, so-called CMVSS, which are derived from the FMVSS apply to Canada. But you are not getting or not in all details identical (see list below links).

The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard is for the sake of clarity, as well as the ECE regulations, divided into different sections, so-called security Vorschrifts numbers. The sections here contain provisions on various topics. So do not just exist sections for the larger component complexes but also what that govern their interaction.

The preparation of this safety is the responsibility of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA), the 301 ( Motor Vehicle Safety ) received the legislative mandate in the United States Code, Title 49, Chapter.

The first FMVSS regulations, FMVSS 209, was enacted on March 1, 1967, and is still valid today. It describes the minimum requirements that must comply with the safety of passenger cars, commercial vehicles, trucks and buses.

Examples are:

• FMVSS 105 requirements for hydraulic and electric service brake systems, and parking brakes
• FMVSS 108 Lamps, reflective devices and associated equipment
• FMVSS 120 tire and rim selection for motor vehicles other than passenger cars
• FMVSS 121 air brake systems
• FMVSS 208 frontal crash test
• FMVSS 214 Side pole impact
• FMVSS 216 roof stiffness