Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards - Electronic Stability Control Systems for Heavy Vehicles (US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Regulation) (NHTSA) (2018 Edition‪)‬

The Law Library presents the complete text of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards - Electronic Stability Control Systems for Heavy Vehicles (US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Regulation) (NHTSA) (2018 Edition).
Updated as of May 29, 2018

This document establishes a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 136 to require electronic stability control (ESC) systems on truck tractors and certain buses with a gross vehicle weight rating of greater than 11,793 kilograms (26,000 pounds). ESC systems in truck tractors and large buses are designed to reduce untripped rollovers and mitigate severe understeer or oversteer conditions that lead to loss of control by using automatic computer-controlled braking and reducing engine torque output.

This ebook contains:
- The complete text of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards - Electronic Stability Control Systems for Heavy Vehicles (US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Regulation) (NHTSA) (2018 Edition)
- A dynamic table of content linking to each section
- A table of contents in introduction presenting a general overview of the structure