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Technical Standards Document No. 204, Revision 0 — Steering Control Rearward Displacement

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

S1. Purpose and Scope

S2. Application

S3. Definitions

S4. Requirements

S5. Test conditions

Introduction

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Director, Standards Research and Development
for the Minister of Transport,
Infrastructure and Communities
Ottawa, Ontario

The text of this document is based on Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 204, Steering Control Rearward Displacement, as published in the United States Code of Federal Regulations, Title 49, Part 571, revised as of October 1, 2010

S1. Purpose and Scope

This Technical Standards Document (TSD) standard specifies requirements limiting the rearward displacement of the steering control into the passenger compartment to reduce the likelihood of chest, neck, or head injury.

S2. Application

[CONTENT NOT REPRODUCED]

S3. Definitions

Steering column means a structural housing that surrounds a steering shaft (Colonne de direction).

Steering shaft means a component that transmits steering torque from the steering wheel to the steering gear (Arbre de direction).

S4. Requirements

S4.1 [CONTENT NOT REPRODUCED]

S4.2 Vehicles manufactured on or after September 1, 1991

When a passenger car or a truck, bus or multipurpose passenger vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of 4,536 kg or less and an unloaded vehicle weight of 2,495 kg or less is tested under the conditions of S5 in a 48 km/h perpendicular impact into a fixed collision barrier, the upper end of the steering column and shaft in the vehicle shall not be displaced more than 127 mm in a horizontal rearward direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle. The amount of displacement shall be measured relative to an undisturbed point on the vehicle and shall represent the maximum dynamic movement of the upper end of the steering column and shaft during the crash test.

S5. Test conditions

The requirements of S4 shall be met when the vehicle is tested in accordance with the following conditions.

S5.1 Untitled

The vehicle, including test devices and instrumentation, is loaded to its unloaded vehicle weight.

S5.2 Untitled

Adjustable steering controls are adjusted so that a tilting steering wheel hub is at the geometric center of the locus it describes when it is moved through its full range of driving positions. A telescoping steering control is set at the adjustment position midway between the forwardmost and rearwardmost position.

S5.3 Untitled

Convertibles and open-body type vehicles have the top, if any, in place in the closed passenger compartment configuration.

S5.4 Untitled

Doors are fully closed and latched but not locked.

S5.5 Untitled

The fuel tank is filled to any level from 90 to 95 percent of capacity.

S5.6 Untitled

The parking brake is disengaged and the transmission is in neutral.

S5.7 Untitled

Tires are inflated to the vehicle manufacturer's specifications.

Date modified:

2011-10-28

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