New norms to limit fuel leaks, protect EV batteries in rear-end crashes
In a notification, road transport ministry has also made the automotive standard, AIS-192, mandatory for Event Data Recorder (EDR) from Oct 2029 if it is installed in any car.
The EDR feature is not mandatory for all cars, and it remains an optional feature.
EDR records crash details, which help establish what happened immediately before and during a collision.
It is similar in purpose to an aircraft’s flight-data recorder.
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