The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is proposing to expand the area on windshields in which safety technology devices can be mounted. The agency is also proposing to add more items to its definition of “vehicle safety technology.”
Current regulations require devices with vehicle safety technologies to be mounted no more than 4 inches below the upper edge of the area swept by the windshield wipers, or not more than 7 inches above the lower edge of the area swept by the windshield wipers, and outside the driver’s sight lines to the road and highway signs and signals.
In a notice of proposed rulemaking set to be published in the Federal Register Tuesday, July 7, the agency proposes to increase from 4 inches to 8.5 inches the distance below the upper edge of the area swept by the windshield wipers within which vehicle safety technologies may be mounted. The other parameters would remain unchanged.
