The industry wide pact to make automatic emergency braking standard on nearly all new cars and trucks by 2022 was a victory for Mark Rosekind, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief who has hustled to cement a more cooperative model of automaker-regulator relations during his remaining months in office. But some safety advocates see the deal as a setback for regulatory rigor that prioritizes expediency over public safety. Such voluntary agreements, they say, lack the force of law and the transparency of the conventional rule-making process.
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