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FMCSA amends the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) to allow the voluntary mounting of certain devices on the interior of the windshields of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs), including placement within the area that is swept by the windshield wipers. The Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act directs FMCSA to amend the FMCSRs to allow, on a permanent basis, devices/technologies the Agency previously determined are likely to achieve a level of safety equivalent to or greater than the level of safety that would be achieved without the devices – FMCSA previously granted limited two-year exemptions for these devices. And the statute provides a definition of "vehicle safety technology" which encompasses several technologies the Agency must allow to be installed in the windshield.