NHTSA seeks approval for drive-mode design study
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NHTSA plans a one-time voluntary study on how different vehicle drive-mode interfaces affect driver attention and performance compared with standard controls. The agency is asking the Office of Management and Budget to approve the information collection needed for that experiment. Automakers, vehicle technology developers, safety researchers, and other interested parties may want to comment by July 8, 2026. The immediate impact is procedural: it does not create new design rules, but it could inform future best practices for in-vehicle interfaces.
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Key Changes
- NHTSA seeks OMB approval for a new information collection tied to a voluntary drive-mode design experiment.
- The study will compare how different drive-mode implementations affect driver attention and performance.
- Public comments on the proposed information collection are due by July 8, 2026.
Obligations
What this law requires
Interested parties that choose to submit comments on the proposed information collection must submit them to OMB through www.reginfo.gov by selecting “Currently under Review—Open for Public Comment” or using the search function for this collection.