Interpretation ID: aiam3732
Director
Automotive Safety Engineering
Environmental Activities Staff
General Motors Corporation
General Motors Technical Center
Warren
MI 48090;
Dear Mr. Martin: The Deputy Administrator has asked me to respond to your letter of Jul 18, 1983, concerning an expansion of your current field testing of anti-lacerative windshield glazing supplied by Saint-Gobain Vitrage. The expanded field test would involve the installation of anti-lacerative windshields produced by Libbey-Owens-Ford (LOF) in 550 1984 Buick Century and/or Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera automobiles. You stated that the vision and abrasion resistance characteristics of the LOF material are similar to the Saint-Gobain material you are using in your current field tests. You also stated that you will closely monitor the test fleet and rectify any problems that may develop.; Under the limited and special circumstances of the field test describe in your letter, the agency would not enforce the abrasion requirement of Safety Standard No. 205, as it now stands, for the LOF anti-lacerative windshields to be used in your proposed field tests. We expect General Motors to keep the agency informed of all the results it obtains from this field test.; Sincerely, Frank Berndt, Chief Counsel