Your DOT motorcycle helmet is not as safe as you think. “Outdated” doesn’t even begin to describe this conspiracy. Last time FMVSS218 saw a major update, only two countries had internet and NASA coined an obscure new term called “global warming.” Yikes.

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Look up test reports for your own helmet:
https://icsw.nhtsa.gov/cars/problems/comply/

Read more about this issue:
https://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/bio/proceedings/2005_33/33-2.pdf
http://www.snell-helmets.org/docs/articles/hic/Feasibility_Study_of_218.pdf
https://www.msf-usa.org/downloads/imsc2001/Thom.pdf
http://www.smf.org/docs/articles/mcomp2.html
https://one.nhtsa.gov/DOT/NHTSA/NRD/Multimedia/PDFs/Public%20Paper/SAE/2007/2007%20SAE%20Gov%20Ind%20Mtg_Covell.pdf

The Snell, ECE and DOT Official Criteria:
https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=0b03b2c80fce1aa8edf303bc44e71eeb&mc=true&node=se49.6.571_1218&rgn=div8
https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/main/wp29/wp29regs/r022r4e.pdf
http://www.smf.org/standards/m/2015/M2015FinalFinal

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