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Originally Posted by electricron
Yes, and no. The regular FRA compliance regulations remained basically the same. What they did was allow an alternate set of compliance rules that allows crash energy management implementation with the latest EU standards. It only modifies the crush standards - other FRA regulations have remained the same. And the alternate compliance changes isn’t set by a specific set of numbers as much as it sets rules by a process. Trains being built under Alternate compliance rules must jump over many hurdles to prove the CEM designs work - something Stadler has been successful at where Nippon Sharyo failed.
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Gotcha, thanks. Once those hurdles have been cleared successfully a number times by a group like Stadler does that create a precedent whereby other groups can essentially follow the same process and easily get approved?
Also, from my understanding, the crush standards were by far the most onerous regulations and really were the ones that prevented the use of European rail cars. Would you say that's accurate?