Regulation of the Day: Sliding Car Doors

The seventeenth in an occasional series that shines a bit of light on the regulatory state.

Today’s Regulation of the Day comes to us from the U.S. Department of Transportation ( $73 billion 2010 budget, 58,622 employees).

A new set of rules for sliding car doors will come into effect on September 1, 2010.

See pages 35,131-35,135 of the 2009 Federal Register for details.