Meanwhile Johnson Controls provides supporting information, "debunking myths" that could lead to FARS not being adopted.
Not lobbying though, this is advocacy. That happens to revolve around adopting model codes that happen to mandate an expensive system that JCI exclusively sells. For safety.
This is a conflict between daily chronic risk and acute catastrophic risk: Excessively wide roads cause higher ambient speeds every single day, leading to thousands of predictable pedestrian injuries and deaths. Fire officials worry that if a truck gets stuck behind a parked car people can die.