USA (NHTSA) - Amendment Proposal for FMVSS No. 208, "Occupant Crash Protection", to Update the Child Restraint Systems (CRSs)

​On November 02, 2020, the NHTSA released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to amend Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 208, "Occupant crash protection", to update the child restraint systems (CRSs) listed in Appendix A-1 of the standard. NHTSA uses the CRSs in Appendix A-1 to test the performance of advanced air bag suppression and low risk deployment systems in either suppressing or deploying the air bag in a low-risk manner in the presence of a CRS. The proposed amendments would ensure that the CRSs used by NHTSA to test advanced air bags are representative of the current CRS fleet, and would make it easier for vehicle manufacturers and test laboratories to acquire CRSs for testing purposes.