House Hearing on Motor Vehicle Safety — Takeaways - CleanTechnica

The House Energy & Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade held a hearing on June 26th focused on motor vehicle safety, particularly addressing the rising number of bicyclist fatalities on American roads. Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows that bicyclist deaths have nearly doubled since 2010, with over 1,000 deaths estimated in early 2024. Contributing factors include increasing vehicle size, weight, horsepower, and driver distraction. The hearing emphasized the urgent need for congressional action, notably support for H.R.3649 — the Magnus White Cyclist Safety Act of 2025, which would require NHTSA to implement a bicyclist-Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard within three years. Without such legislation, public testing of bicyclist-AEB by NHTSA is unlikely before 2027, and comparable European crash tests may not occur until 2030. While there