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U.S. administration's fuel efficiency plan would hurt industry, consumers

This month, the Trump administration issued a notice of proposed rule-making that, if finalized, would cast aside the commitment by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama to increase fuel economy and reduce pollution.

In doing so, the administration is on a path that could needlessly upend a regulatory framework that has brought together disparate interests, delivered predictability to automakers, improved cars and reduced pollution.

As such, the proposed new rules run counter to what Ford, General Motors and others across the industry have advocated. In fact, the industry and California appear largely aligned on how to proceed in resetting fuel efficiency standards, and the only missing player is the Trump administration, despite the president's prior direction to his team to negotiate.

Given that, it is not too late for federal agencies to use the regulatory process as intended: for serious stakeholder dialogue. Accordingly, here are three key points that the needed dialogue must recognize:

1. Abandoning the One National Program framework breaks from the program's bipartisan history.

2. The administration's proposal will hurt the U.S. auto industry.

3. The administration uses a range of questionable assumptions that defy common sense, especially regarding safety, to justify this proposal.


Much more: http://www.autonews.com/article/20180813/OEM11/180819978/u-s-administrations-fuel-efficiency-plan-would-hurt-industry

The evolution of crash testing

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Even as automakers and regulators devote more attention to preventing accidents altogether, crash-testing remains a vitally important part of the industry.

In fact, demand for crash-test services is growing as companies race to develop autonomous and electric vehicles — while freshening their existing fleets to keep up with strong sales — and new competitors in developing nations and the tech sector enter the market or scale up.

Across from the airport here, a $20 million indoor testing center that Calspan Corp. opened in January is busy slamming cars and trucks into various obstacles several times a day. The 58,000-square-foot site, one of the most advanced and secure independent labs in the world, can conduct 1,000 tests a year, five times the number Calspan could handle at the outdoor center it replaced.

Preparing a vehicle is an elaborate, multiday process that involves draining fluids and replacing gasoline with a special dye; coding underbody and interior sections with different paint colors to help identify where they moved on impact; setting seats and seat belts in standardized positions; running "inch tape" down the center of the car and sides to facilitate high-speed video analysis; and installing rugged data instrumentation and dummies.

"You've got to pay attention to details because you only have one chance to get this right," said Gerald Goupil Jr., Calspan's director of crash test operations. "You have to do quality checks so every test comes out perfectly."


Much more: http://www.autonews.com/article/20180812/OEM11/180819972/calspan-crash-test-collision

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