InterRegs Helps Auto Firms Navigate A Sea Of Regulatory Information
FAREHAM, England, Nov. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Car makers faced with continual changes in safety, emissions and fuel-economy requirements now see a host of new electric- and autonomous-vehicle requirements on the horizon.
InterRegs, the world's leading provider of regulatory information for automakers and their suppliers, currently has more than 16,000 regulatory documents in its database. Placed end-to-end, those documents would stretch more than 130 kilometers or the length of 28,000 family-sized cars.
"We annually see a 30-percent change in the existing regulatory documents we have on file," says Charles Wright, the company's technical director. "We also expect to see considerable growth in the actual number of documents in our library over the next 10 years."
Continually changing safety, emissions and fuel-economy requirements plus a host of new electric- , connected- and autonomous-vehicle regulations will test the auto industry in future years, Wright predicts.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2018, InterRegs serves more than 500 companies around the world, including eight of the 10 largest automakers. To help new and existing customers stay up to date with a rapidly changing regulatory environment, the company offers a variety of webinars on client- and segment-specific topics.
During the company's anniversary year, Wright and other InterRegs executives have visited clients in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific region to further discuss regulatory challenges.
"We have already seen a number of new electric- and autonomous-specific regulations," he notes. "Crash-test requirements, for example, have been amended to cover specific safety issues for the high-voltage electrical systems fitted to electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. Steering-system regulations in Europe have recently been amended to cover automatically controlled steering functions as well."
In the United States, Arizona, California and Maryland have taken a leading role in developing a regulatory roadmap for autonomous vehicles with federal requirements expected to follow. Along with the United States, China and Europe are expected to lead in the development of these new legal requirements.
InterRegs' customer base today is expanding with the addition of a number of high-tech companies and manufacturers, including several English and U.S. technology companies involved in electric, hybrid-electric and autonomous-vehicle programs that are preparing to launch new vehicles.
Michigan-based companies such as General Motors and Lear were among the first to take advantage of InterRegs data, while Ford recently was recognized as the company's very first customer in the 1960s.
"Today our database contains more than 8.2 million words related to regulatory information," Wright points out. "Along with the rapid change and growth in vehicle regulations around the world, we've also seen a growing need for help in accessing and using the huge amount of material currently available."
Once provided in bulky loose-leaf binders, regulatory information from InterRegs today is made available through InterRegs.NET, an online subscription service. InterRegs also provides its current and prospective customers with a variety of InterRegs.NET webinars tailored to each company's specific areas of interest.
"Our webinars and on-site customer visits provide us with an opportunity to update our clients on InterRegs.NET's capabilities and to anticipate their future needs," Wright explains. "Over the years we've gained a reputation for providing our customers with clear, comprehensive, accurate and accessible information."
"This type of service will become increasingly important as emissions and safety regulations are adopted to cover new generations of electric, connected and autonomous vehicles."
Additional information about InterRegs subscription services is available at www.interregs.com.
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