Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1997: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, Part 8U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998 - United States |
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Page 585 - An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
Page 548 - ... (2) for any person to fail or refuse to permit access to or copying of records or to fail to make reports or provide information, required under section 207; or "(3) for any person to remove or render inoperative any device or element of design installed on or in a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine in compliance with regulations under this title prior to its sale and delivery to the ultimate purchaser.
Page 437 - NHTSA, private contractor and air bag supplier engineers to the 8th International Experimental Safety Vehicle Conference in Wolfsburg, West Germany in October 1980, "For low level deployment the stored gas only was used while for high level deployment the solid propellant charge heated the stored gas for augmented flow." (p. 343) While the numbers are too small to be statistically valid, and there were some deficiencies in these early systems, I would note that in several hundred crashes involving...
Page 571 - BAG OFF" on the telltale or within 25 millimeters of the telltale; (c) Shall remain illuminated for the entire time that the air bag is "off"; (d) Shall not be illuminated at any time when the air bag is "on": and, (e) Shall not be combined with the readiness indicator required by S4.5.2 of this standard.
Page 568 - Order 12612, it is determined that this rule does not have sufficient federalism implications to warrant the preparation of a Federalism Assessment.
Page 568 - Federal mandate likely to result in the expenditure by State, local, or tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by the private sector, of more than $ 100 million in any one year (adjusted for inflation with base year of 1995).
Page 339 - The final rule itself specifies that "the color of the lettering on the label shall contrast with the background of the label.
Page 9 - ... belts. Accordingly, air bags were originally designed to protect occupants who were not restrained by their lap/shoulder belts. Today, about 67 percent of front seat occupants wear their lap/shoulder belts. Federal regulations and NHTSA's recent proposal to depower air bags, however, still require that vehicle test procedures be based on unrestrained occupants. In essence, air bags are being designed, because of certification testing requirements, primarily to protect unbelted rather than belted...
Page 437 - I would note that in several hundred crashes involving over 300 hundred occupants, including more than a dozen children and some small adults in these 1970s GM cars, the injury effects we are seeing today were not evident. It is also noteworthy that child passenger safety was an issue that GM was concerned about in designing these systems. As long ago as 1972, GM engineers in a Society of Automotive Engineers paper, reported "favorable results...
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