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Sophie Shulman Category: Person Description: Deputy Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Page Sections: Article Index |
| Date | Article | Details |
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| 21 April 2023 | Side Underride Guards This ANPRM responds to Section 23011(c) of the November 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which directs the Secretary to conduct research on side underride guards to better understand their overall effectiveness, and assess the feasibility, benefits, costs, and other impacts of installing side underride guards on trailers and semitrailers. | Federal Register Notice  (text)Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman |
| 26 April 2023 | Advisory Committee on Underride Protection; Notice of Public Meeting The purpose of the ACUP is to provide information, advice, and recommendations to the Secretary of Transportation on safety regulations to reduce underride crashes and fatalities relating to underride crashes. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman |
| 26 May 2023 | New Car Assessment Program This notice requests comment on a proposal to update the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s New Car Assessment Program to provide consumers with information about crashworthiness pedestrian protection of new vehicles. | Federal Register Notice ( PDF)Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman |
| 31 May 2023 | Czinger Vehicles--Grant of Petition for Temporary Exemption From Certain Requirements of FMVSS No. 205, Glazing Materials NHTSA is granting a request from Czinger for a temporary exemption from FMVSS No. 205's abrasion resistance requirements for windshields for its first vehicle model, the 21C. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman Topic: Czinger 21C |
| 5 June 2023 | Uniform Procedures for State Highway Safety Grant Programs This final rule amends the uniform procedures implementing the State Highway Safety Grant Program to waive, for fiscal year 2024, the requirement that targets for the common performance measures be identical to targets in the State Highway Safety Improvement Plan. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agencies: FHWA & NHTSA Byline: Andrew Rogers & Sophie Shulman |
| 9 June 2023 | Side Underride Guards; Extension of Comment Period On May 9, 2023, NHTSA received a joint request from Eric Hein, Stephen Bingham, Aaron Kiefer, Jerry Karth, and Lois Durso asking NHTSA to extend the comment period for the ANPRM. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman |
| 20 February 2024 | Exemptions From Average Fuel Economy Standards; Passenger Automobile Average Fuel Economy Standards The low volume manufacturers and MYs are as follows: Aston Martin Lagonda Limited for MYs 2008-2023, Ferrari N.V. for MYs 2016-2018 and 2020, Koenigsegg Automotive AB for MYs 2015 and 2018-2023, McLaren Automotive for MYs 2012-2023, Mobility Ventures LLC for MYs 2014-2016, Pagani Automobili S.p.A for MYs 2014 and 2016-2023, and Spyker Automobielen B.V. for MYs 2008-2010. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman |
| 15 March 2024 | Improvements for Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Test Procedures, and Other Technical Amendments These amendments increase compliance flexibility, harmonize with other requirements, add clarity, correct errors, and streamline the regulations. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman |
| 15 April 2024 | Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; FMVSS No. 305a Electric-Powered Vehicles: Electric Powertrain Integrity Global Technical Regulation No. 20, Incorporation by Reference | Federal Register Notice ( PDF) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman Topic: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards |
| 17 April 2024 | Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Fuel System Integrity of Hydrogen Vehicles; Compressed Hydrogen Storage System Integrity; Incorporation by Reference This notice proposes to establish two new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards specifying performance requirements for all motor vehicles that use hydrogen as a fuel source. | Federal Register Notice ( PDF) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman Topic: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards |
| 6 May 2024 | Uniform Procedures for State Highway Safety Grant Programs This final rule amends the uniform procedures implementing the State Highway Safety Grant Program to waive, for Fiscal Year 2025, the requirement that targets for the common performance measures be identical to targets in the State Highway Safety Improvement Program. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agencies: Federal Highway Administration & National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Shailen P. Bhatt & Sophie Shulman |
| 9 May 2024 | Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Automatic Emergency Braking Systems for Light Vehicles This final rule adopts a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard to require automatic emergency braking, including pedestrian AEB, systems on light vehicles. | Federal Register Notice ( PDF) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman Topic: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards |
| 24 June 2024 | Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards for Passenger Cars and Light Trucks for Model Years 2027 and Beyond and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Heavy-Duty Pickup Trucks and Vans for Model Years 2030 and Beyond NHTSA, on behalf of the Department of Transportation, is finalizing CAFE standards for passenger cars and light trucks that increase at a rate of 2 percent per year for passenger cars in model years 2027–31, 0 percent per year for light trucks in model years 2027–28, and 2 percent per year for light trucks in model years 2029–31. | Federal Register Notice ( PDF) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman |
| 2 July 2024 | Receipt of Petitions for Renewal of Temporary Exemptions From Shoulder Belt Requirement for Side-Facing Seats on Motorcoaches NHTSA has received almost identical petitions from 13 final-stage manufacturers of “entertainer-type motorcoaches,” seeking renewal of temporary exemptions from a shoulder belt requirement of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 208, “Occupant crash protection,” for side-facing seats on motorcoaches. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman |
| 9 July 2024 | Anthropomorphic Test Devices; THOR 50th Percentile Adult Male Test Dummy; Incorporation by Reference The dummy represents an adult male of roughly average height and weight and is designed for use in frontal crash tests. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman |
| 15 July 2024 | Uniform Procedures for State Highway Safety Grant Programs In this rule, effective for fiscal year 2025 grants, NHTSA makes a technical amendment to update the monetary threshold for equipment in NHTSA's Uniform Procedures for State highway safety grant programs from $5,000 to $10,000 in 23 CFR 1300.31(d) to conform with the updated OMB rules. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman |
| 29 July 2024 | Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards for Passenger Cars and Light Trucks for Model Years 2027-2032 and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Heavy-Duty Pickup Trucks and Vans for Model Years 2030-2035; Correction That document finalized new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to be manufactured in model years 2027-2031, and new fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty pickup trucks and vans to be manufactured in MYs 2030-2035. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman |
| 16 August 2024 | Record Retention Requirement This rule is being issued pursuant to the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, which requires the Secretary of Transportation to extend the period of time manufacturers of motor vehicles, child restraint systems, and tires must retain records concerning malfunctions that may be related to motor vehicle safety under the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman |
| 22 August 2024 | Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Occupant Crash Protection This final rule amends Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 208, “Occupant crash protection,” updating the child restraint systems listed in the standard. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman Topic: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards |
| 9 September 2024 | Damon Motors Inc.; Receipt of Petition for Temporary Exemption From a Rear Wheel Brake Requirement of FMVSS No. 123 Damon Motors has petitioned the agency for a temporary exemption from a rear wheel brake control requirement of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 123, Motorcycle controls and displays. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman Topic: Damon |
| 17 September 2024 | Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards: Seat Belt Assembly Anchorages; Incorporation by Reference This document amends the procedures for testing the strength of seat belt anchorages in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 210, “Seat Belt Assembly Anchorages.” | Federal Register Notice ( PDF) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman Topic: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards |
| 17 September 2024 | Make Inoperative Exemptions; Retrofit Air Bag On-Off Switches and Air Bag Deactivations The proposed amendments would eliminate the sunset date, and would also narrow the population of people eligible to have an on-off switch installed. | Federal Register Notice ( PDF) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman |
| 19 September 2024 | Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Pedestrian Head Protection, Global Technical Regulation No. 9; Incorporation by Reference NHTSA proposes a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard that would ensure passenger vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less are designed to mitigate the risk of serious to fatal injury in child and adult pedestrian crashes. | Federal Register Notice ( PDF) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Sophie Shulman |