The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced on Friday that it will delay the implementation of updates to the U.S. government’s New Car Assessment Program, finalized in December, following a request by automakers.

Last year, the agency announced that it would be adding blind spot warning, blind spot intervention, lane-keeping assist, and pedestrian automatic emergency braking, as well as updating its automatic emergency braking requirements, effective in the 2026 model year, which starts this month.

NHTSA said it was delaying requirements until the 2027 model year after a group representing nearly all major automakers in April said the agency had failed to publish test procedures for evaluating crashworthiness pedestrian protection.

(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)