The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has just issued new seatbelt laws for auto manufacturers. Starting in September 2027, all new vehicles will be required to have rear seatbelt alarms. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has just issued new seat belt laws for auto
00:04manufacturers. Starting in September 2027, all new vehicles will be required to have rear seat
00:10belt alarms, meaning anyone in the backseat who doesn't properly engage their belt will trigger
00:14the same alarm you currently get if the driver doesn't engage theirs. This is just one of several
00:19new rules laid out by the administration recently, with more enhanced alarms for the driver and
00:24front seat passenger beginning in September 2026. This all comes after a 2022 report,
00:30which found that rear seat passengers only belt themselves 81.7% of the time, meanwhile front
00:35seat passengers click it 91.6% of the time, or 10% more often. The New York Times outlines that
00:42since that 2022 report, around 47% of vehicles produced since have already incorporated rear
00:47seat alarms into their cars voluntarily. The new rules will include both an alarm,
00:52as well as a visual cue that someone is unbelted in the back. The administration reports this
00:56change follows decades of implementing new rules that make cars and driving safer,
01:01outlining that of the 25,420 car crash deaths that occurred in 2022,
01:0650% of those were not wearing their seat belts.