FMVSS & U.S. Automotive Safety Standards

The core Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards taught from primary regulatory text — the deep-dive counterpart to survey-level compliance training.

Private cohorts & on-site
Format: 3-day (8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.)
Level: Advanced
Location: Scheduled on demand · on-site at your facility or a regional venue
Date(s): Not yet scheduled for open enrollment. Get notified when it is, or book it privately for your team.
Includes: Certificate of Completion · printed slide binder · take-home reference text

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Faculty

Faculty details for this seminar will be announced with the full schedule.

Fees

Early: $1,895 (payment 4+ weeks ahead)
Standard: $2,095 (check/ACH) · $2,165 (card)

Group discount: $200 off per attendee for 3+ from the same organization.

Also Available

  • Corporate on-site delivery at your facility
  • Private cohort sessions
  • Digital curriculum licensing

Seminar Overview

The 16 Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards that govern U.S. vehicles are dense, technical, and enforced through recalls and litigation — and the engineers who design the parts must read them from primary text, not summaries. Taught from the actual regulatory text in the ETS standards corpus (FMVSS 104 through 500, including 108 lamps, 201 interior impact, 208 occupant crash protection, 302 flammability, and 500 low-speed vehicles), this seminar is the deep-dive counterpart to the survey-level automotive compliance course. It is the specialist course for engineers, quality, and expert-witness work on U.S. safety standards.

Ideal Learner

  • Vehicle safety and compliance engineers
  • Body, interior, and restraint engineers reading FMVSS on real programs
  • Quality and homologation engineers for U.S. market entry
  • Failure-analysis and expert-witness professionals
  • Engineers supporting recall and liability investigations

Learning Objectives

  • Read and apply FMVSS requirements from primary text
  • Map the 16 core FMVSS to the components they govern
  • Design and test to meet crash, interior, lamp, and flammability standards
  • Interpret test procedures and compliance evidence
  • Support recall, self-certification, and litigation with accurate standards understanding

Consulting Sessions

Seminar attendees can sign up for individual consulting sessions with the instructor. Sessions are free for registered attendees, first-come first-served — sign up when registering by calling 248-539-0473 or during the seminar.

Seminar Outline

  • How the standards are structured and referenced
  • Self-certification and compliance obligations
  • The textbook-vs-regulation difference
  • The core crash standard and its sled/tests
  • The 20g/0.04s dynamic rollover test and its context
  • Restraint and interior requirements
  • Interior-impact requirements and exceptions
  • Head-restraint performance
  • Materials and interior-component implications
  • The lamps standard in depth
  • Rear visibility and camera/review requirements
  • Testing and compliance evidence
  • Steering, glazing, locks, seating, fuel integrity
  • Flammability of interior materials
  • Materials implications across the set
  • LSV requirements
  • Recall jurisdiction and defect obligations
  • Supporting litigation and recalls accurately
  • Attendees map the applicable FMVSS for a real component
  • Identify tests and compliance evidence
  • Present the compliance case

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