Autobody News' John Yoswick reports SEMA is conducting research on modified vehicles to gauge the impact of such modifications on ADAS calibrations.

While collision repair shops already face liability if they fail to restore functionality to advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) on the vehicles they repair, the obligation to do so is likely to become even more concrete within a few years. Part of a temporarily-delayed Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard that would require an even higher-than-current level of automatic emergency braking (AEB) as standard on all new vehicles by 2029 -- and would prohibit deactivation of such ...

Read AutoBodyNews.com’s full story: “Modified Vehicles Pose Challenges for Meeting Federal Mandate to Restore ADAS.”

 

John Yoswick John Yoswick is a freelance writer who has been covering the collision industry since 1988, and the editor of the CRASH Network.

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