ATV safety standards
ATV-producer in the USA, since decades of resistance against federal regulations on the safety of their vehicles, they are now embracing as foreign companies to try to break the U.S. market. Sens Norm Coleman, R-Minn. And Mark Dayton, D-Minn. The legislation recently introduced for the first time, to resolve all ATVs sold in the USA, it would be legally binding safety standards that manufacturers such as Minnesota’s Polaris and Arctic Cat Inc. meet voluntarily but that ATV makers foreigners.
Coleman, main sponsor of the legislation, said it is important that Polaris and Arctic Cat are not marked with the sins of error in transmission and poor standards of others in the industry. Dayton, said the legislation is a “Trifecta” the safety, fairness and benefits for the economy of Minnesota. Medina-based Polaris 2200, while 1500 people work in Thief River Falls-based Arctic Cat.
Critics of the law say it is an effort to create a new industry import sold cheaper than vehicles market, while manufacturers, it is safe.
How ATV sales have increased during recent years, the number of injuries and deaths related to vehicles.
An average of nearly 500 people died per year in each of the last five years, riding ATVs, more than a quarter of the age of 15 years or younger. In Minnesota, 43 ATV deaths were reported between 2002 and 2004, and 178 since 1982. It is not known how many parts imports.
Imports from China, Taiwan, South Korea and Italy. Early last month, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said it would explore voluntary safety standards and, possibly, to mandatory. The Coleman Dayton bill would effectively accelerate the process.
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