New rules would update tire safety tests for cars and trucks, potentially making tires safer.
This bill would update federal safety rules for car and truck tires. It would remove old testing requirements and add new high-speed tests, aiming to improve tire safety for drivers. Tire manufacturers would need to follow these updated standards.
Today, federal tire safety rules include some outdated tests and a definition of "chunking" that doesn't specifically address snow tires. There are also no consistent high-speed testing rules for car and light truck tires that match certain international standards. After this bill, the Department of Transportation would remove these outdated tests, update the "chunking" definition for snow tires, and create new, uniform high-speed testing rules for passenger car and light truck tires within 180 days to 1 year.
S 5095 · 119th Congress · July 23, 2026 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10
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