UN R107 — Supplement 2 to the 11 series of amendments

New paragraphs 0. to 0.1.5. add an Introduction to the Regulation. New paragraph 2.49. defines “ADS feature of type 1 (ADSF-1)” as an ADS feature which includes an ADS fallback response requiring a fallback user. New paragraph 2.50. defines “ADS feature of type 2 (ADSF-2)” as an ADS feature which does not include such a fallback response. New paragraph 5.7. requires vehicles equipped with an ADSF-2 to comply with the technical requirements of “UN Regulation No [XXX]”, as the text prints it. Under paragraph 2.23., an on-board operator/user of an ADS feature, in charge of responsibility for the tasks other than DDT, is considered a crew member. The definitions of “Passenger” and “Service door” now add “(if applicable)” to their reference to the driver.

Paragraphs 2.1.1. and 2.1.2. now set the vehicle classes by a capacity of 23 occupants, instead of 22 passengers in addition to the driver. The vehicle concept in paragraphs 2.2.1. and 2.2.2. and several paragraphs of Annexes 3 and 4 also use “23 occupants” instead of “22 passengers”. In Annex 1 – Part 1, Appendices 1 and 2, paragraph 5. now concerns vehicles “used for the carriage of occupants comprising more than nine seats”. The mass in running order (para. 2.18.) and the mass items in Annex 1 now include the driver “except in the case of vehicles of category X”. Paragraph 2.7. of Appendices 1 and 2 now reads “Driving cab (if fitted) (forward, bonneted or not applicable)”. The footnote that refers to R.E.3 now cites document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/78/Rev.8 instead of Rev.6, with a new web address.

Many provisions on the driver’s compartment, the driver’s seat or the driver now add “(if fitted)” or “(if applicable)”. Without a driver’s compartment, extinguisher space must be close to the crew member seat, if fitted, or in the frontal area of the passenger compartment. Paragraph 7.2.3.1. moves the space for the Annex 11 markings from the driver’s area to the frontal area of the passenger compartment. With an ADSF-2 (including vehicles of category X), the marking must be in the passenger compartment and visible to a crew member, if any. If the ADS may operate without a crew member, the required information must also be made available to the ADS. Paragraph 7.7.1.8.4. and the access requirements for emergency doors in paragraph 7.7.2. do not apply to vehicles of category X.

For vehicles equipped with an ADSF-2, all compartments with an internal combustion engine or a combustion heater must have an excess-temperature alarm system. This alarm system must transmit a logic signal to the ADS whilst the ADS feature is active, and activate the hazard warning signal. For vehicles equipped with an ADSF-2, the alarm system for excess temperature or smoke must also cover sleeping compartments and passenger compartment(s) (para. 7.5.6.1.). Upon detection and whilst an ADSF-2 is active, this system must transmit a logic signal to the ADS and activate the hazard warning signal. Paragraph 7.5.7.1. adds rules for the activation of an alarm system in vehicles of Classes I, II, III, A and B equipped with an ADSF-2. Then the emergency lighting system, if fitted, must activate automatically, and a logic signal must be transmitted to the ADS.

New paragraph 7.6.4.6.2. requires automatically-operated service doors on vehicles equipped with an ADSF-2. This does not apply if the ADS safety concept provides an equivalent level of safety in agreement with the Technical Service and Type Approval Authority. Vehicles equipped with an ADSF-2 must be fitted with a starting prevention device (para. 7.6.5.9.). With an ADSF-2, every automatically operated service door must be controllable by the ADS, unless the ADS safety concept delegates this to a crew member. With an ADSF-2, the ADS must also be able to inhibit and re-establish the automatic closing process, with the same crew member exception. The definition of “Automatically-operated service-door” (para. 2.26.) now says “after activation of the controls by the driver or by an ADS”.

For power-operated emergency doors, paragraph 7.6.7.2. now says “until a closing control has been operated” instead of “until the driver subsequently operates a closing control”. In vehicles with an ADSF-2, the emergency door warning and the overnight locking warning must also be transmitted to the ADS as a logic signal. Whilst an ADSF-2 is active, a logic signal must be transmitted to the ADS when a hinged emergency window is not completely closed. Whilst an ADSF-2 is active, the same applies when a roof and/or floor escape hatch has been opened or removed for emergency egress (para. 7.6.9.6.). In paragraph 7.6.8.2.2.3., the operational status of an electronic device may now be provided as a logic signal to the ADS.

On vehicles of Classes I, II and A, passengers signal that “the vehicle should be stopped”, instead of that “the driver should stop the vehicle”. The “bus stopping” sign text no longer states a minimum letter height of 50 mm. For vehicles equipped with an ADSF-2, a means must enable passengers in case of emergency to request to bring the vehicle to a safe stop. In Annex 8, several rules for boarding devices now say “the driver and/or crew member” instead of “the driver”. New paragraph 3.11.5. says that the devices of paragraphs 3.11.1. to 3.11.4. may alternatively be controlled by an ADS. With an ADSF-2 and no onboard human supervision, a safety device must protect all areas where the movement might trap or crush objects or persons.