{"description":"Documents matching 'kei' and from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration","count":2,"total_pages":1,"results":[{"title":"Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards","type":"Rule","abstract":"This final rule responds to a growing public interest in using golf cars <SUP>1</SUP> and other similar-sized, 4-wheeled vehicles to make short trips for shopping, social and recreational purposes primarily within retirement or other planned communities with golf courses. These passenger-carrying vehicles, although low-speed, offer a variety of advantages, including comparatively low-cost and energy- efficient mobility. Further, many of these vehicles are electric- powered. The use of these vehicles, instead of larger, gasoline-powered vehicles like passenger cars, provides quieter transportation that does not pollute the air of the communities in which they are operated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------","document_number":"98-16003","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/06/17/98-16003/federal-motor-vehicle-safety-standards","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1998-06-17/pdf/98-16003.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":null,"publication_date":"1998-06-17","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION","name":"Transportation Department","id":492,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/transportation-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/492","parent_id":null,"slug":"transportation-department"},{"raw_name":"National Highway Traffic Safety Administration","name":"National Highway Traffic Safety Administration","id":345,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/national-highway-traffic-safety-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/345","parent_id":492,"slug":"national-highway-traffic-safety-administration"}],"excerpts":"the 1990's. Beginning in 1994, frontal crash \nprotection requirements had to be met by <span class=\"match\">kei</span> cars at 40 km/hr and by \npassenger cars at 50 km/hr. Those requirements are a HIC not greater \nthan 1000, thorax acceleration not greater than 60g and femur load not \ngreater than 10kn. The test speed for the frontal crash protection \nrequirements will become the same (50 km/hr) for <span class=\"match\">kei</span> cars and passenger \ncars in October of this year, when the most recent increases in <span class=\"match\">kei</span> car \nlength and width become effective.\n    As for the two classes of voiturettes in Europe"},{"title":"Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"This document initiates rulemaking based upon oral presentations at the agency's public meetings and written comments received on the appropriate classification and safety regulations for golf carts and other small, light-weight vehicles that are capable of being driven on the public roads. In response to these comments, NHTSA proposes that a new category of motor vehicle be established, called ``low-speed vehicle.'' A low-speed vehicle (LSV) would be any motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, whose top speed does not exceed 25 mph. Under a proposed new standard, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 100, LSVs would be equipped with certain basic items of motor vehicle safety equipment, such as seat belts, in lieu of complying with the Federal motor vehicle safety and bumper standards that would apply if the vehicles were categorized according to existing vehicle types. LSVs would also have a label warning against driving them at speeds that exceed 25 mph. A ``golf cart'', a vehicle that is used to carry golfers on golf courses and that has a top speed of 15 mph or less, would not be considered a motor vehicle, consistent with the agency's past interpretations. A ``golf car'', a vehicle that is used to carry golfers on golf courses and that has a top speed that exceeds 15 mph, but does not exceed 25 mph, would be a motor vehicle and required to comply with Standard No. 100. This rulemaking action is intended to supersede the agency's past interpretations excluding from regulation motor vehicles with a distinctive configuration and a top speed of not more than 20 mph, and to bring all such vehicles under the statutory requirements to notify and remedy safety related defects, and when effective, noncompliances with Standard No. 100.","document_number":"97-386","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/01/08/97-386/federal-motor-vehicle-safety-standards","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1997-01-08/pdf/97-386.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":null,"publication_date":"1997-01-08","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION","name":"Transportation Department","id":492,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/transportation-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/492","parent_id":null,"slug":"transportation-department"},{"raw_name":"National Highway Traffic Safety Administration","name":"National Highway Traffic Safety Administration","id":345,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/national-highway-traffic-safety-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/345","parent_id":492,"slug":"national-highway-traffic-safety-administration"}],"excerpts":"classify and regulate small vehicles. In Japan, \n``<span class=\"match\">kei</span>'' class cars must be no wider than 1400 mm (approximately 4.6 \nfeet), and no longer than 3300 mm (approximately 11 feet). These \ndimensions are similar to those of the Trans2, which is 4.5 feet wide \nand 11.75 feet long. To qualify for the ``<span class=\"match\">kei</span>'' class, gasoline-powered \nengines must not have a displacement greater than 660 cc. In the \nlimited time available, NHTSA has been unable to determine whether \nthere was a speed limitation on ``<span class=\"match\">kei</span>'' class cars, or how or even if \nthese vehicles are"}]}