Tesla Receives Air Bag Waiver from NHTSA
Tesla Motors has had its bacon saved, for now, by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which granted the company a waiver from the federal air bag standard on Monday.
NHTSA said it would give Tesla a three-year exemption from its advanced air bag standard, though the company’s Roadster will still be required to carry standard bags. The government agency gave the free pass in part because it sees Tesla as “one of the most advanced full electric vehicles available,
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chartguy
So, what's the "advanced" air bag standard? How is it different from the "standard" air bag standard?
phd_engineer
Holy carbon-offset Batman! Smells like a Green-lobby success story.
By the same logic, the Chinese and Indian manufacturers should be given the same free pass, as the efforts to create ultra low cost vehicles is a "noble" goal.
southern
I believe the advanced airbag standard requires the manufacturer to pass many more sophisticated tests to determine if these air bags are "smart" enough to know when there is an infant, small child, small adult or normal/large adult in the passenger seat(s) among other things.
I think Lotus pioneered the waiver because a NHTSA offiical had one........
DOWNSHIFTER.
Don't you just love playing on a level field?
mbslrm
Now Telsa has no excuse to start shipping them.
Cicero
Shocking double standards out of a government beaucracy
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