Federal Register #NHTSA-2026-1552

NHTSA Extends Comment Period for AV Framework Interim Guidance

The Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is extending the public comment period for its Automated Vehicle (AV) Framework interim guidance notice. - Purpose: To gather additional stakeholder input on interim guidance for commercial deployment exemptions of automated vehicles. - Extension granted in response to the Alliance for Automotive Innovation's request for more time to provide technically robust comments. - No procurement or award is involved; this is a regulatory and feedback-focused opportunity. - No specific OEMs, vendors, products, or services are mentioned. - The notice centers on regulatory guidance and stakeholder engagement for automated vehicle technologies and exemption processes under NHTSA regulations.

Description

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is announcing a 30-day extension of the public comment period for a notice published on July 31, 2026. The notice summarizes NHTSA's recent activities related to the Automated Vehicle (AV) Framework and requests comments on interim guidance for commercial deployment exemptions for automated vehicles. The original comment period was set to end on August 31, 2026, but has been extended to September 30, 2026, to allow for more thorough stakeholder engagement and technically robust comments.

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