UN R116 — Supplement 4 to the 01 series of amendments

New paragraph 0. adds an Introduction to the Regulation. Paragraph 0.1. says that Supplement 4 to the 01 series of amendments is introduced to take into account vehicles of category X and Y. It is also introduced to take into account “vehicles with a manual mode operating at speeds above 6 km/h which are equipped with an Automated Driving System (ADS)”. Before this supplement, the Regulation had no paragraph 0.

Paragraph 0.1.1. says that the UN Regulation was originally drafted for vehicles with a driver and manual driving controls. The amendment intends to keep the spirit of the UN Regulation. It also intends to extend its application to vehicles without a driver and without manual driving controls in the vehicle. Without “driver/manual driving controls” in the vehicle, provisions related to them must not be taken into account if this amendment does not already cover them. Paragraph 0.1.2. says that, for vehicles with an ADS, no special provisions or exemptions apply in the manual driving mode. In a mode where an ADS feature is active, the relevant ADS requirements apply.

New paragraph 2.17. defines “ADS feature of type 1 (ADSF-1)” as an ADS feature which includes an ADS fallback response requiring a fallback user. New paragraph 2.18. defines “ADS feature of type 2 (ADSF-2)” as an ADS feature which does not include an ADS fallback response requiring a fallback user. Annex 11, paragraph 4.3.3. uses the term ADSF-2.

Paragraph 5.1.2. now says: “In the case of a system which locks brakes, deactivation of the device shall not automatically release the brakes unless a driver or an ADS specifically requests to do so”. Before, the text said that deactivation must not automatically release the brakes “contrary to the driver's intention”.

The immobilizer must be set without supplementary action from the driver (if applicable) by at least one of the means in paragraph 8.3.4.1. The words “(if applicable)” are new. Means (a) is now the finalisation of each ignition cycle (or run cycle, as relevant) and activation of a door. Before, means (a) was rotation of the ignition key into the “0” position in the ignition lock and activation of a door. Immobilizers “which unset immediately before or during the normal starting procedure of the vehicle” are now permitted to set on “finalising the ignition cycle (or run cycle, as relevant)”. Before, they were permitted to set on turning the ignition off.

In Annex 11, paragraph 4.3.3. now lists three cases where the requirements in paragraphs 4.3.1. and 4.3.2. do not apply. The new cases are (b) for vehicles of categories X and Y, and (c) when an ADSF-2 is activated by an authorized registered digital key. Case (a), during a remote-control manoeuvring and remote-control parking as defined in UN Regulation No. 79, was already in paragraph 4.3.3.

Footnote 1 now refers to the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles (R.E.3.), document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/78/Rev.8, and gives a web address. Before, it referred to R.E.3, Annex 7 (document TRANS/WP.29/78/Rev.1, as amended). In the text that GRSG sent to WP.29, the footnote said “Rev.8, para. 2”. AC.1 adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2026/119 as amended by Annex VI of ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1192, which gives the footnote without “para. 2”. Footnote 4 now says that the distinguishing numbers of the Contracting Parties to the 1958 Agreement are reproduced in Annex 3 to R.E.3, document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/78/Rev.8. Before, footnote 4 listed numbers for countries, from 1 for Germany to 51 for the Republic of Korea.