AGSC Winter Meetings Put ADAS Calibration Language into the Next AGRSS Standard

The Auto Glass Safety Council's board of directors and standing committees gathered January 11–12, 2022, for winter meetings that would shape the formal standards governing windshield replacement for years to come.

The ADAS committee, chaired by Jacques Navant, confirmed that substantive calibration language had been incorporated into the draft of the next iteration of the Automotive Glass Replacement Safety Standard—designated ANSI/AGSC/AGRSS 005-2022. AGRSS Standards Committee chair Bob Beranek said the document was expected to be finalized during 2022 and that the majority of its new content was ADAS-related.

Navant noted that the committee had worked to clearly convey when calibration is required following a windshield replacement and stressed that educating customer service representatives—not just field technicians—was a "moral responsibility." Informing a vehicle owner that their forward-collision or lane-departure systems require recalibration after glass work is a conversation that starts at the counter, the committee agreed.

The committee also reviewed the tools available for recalibration. Navant observed that aftermarket calibration tools had gained wide acceptance in the field, while Beranek cautioned that requirements vary by vehicle and by geography—a point reinforced by committee member Mitch Becker. Committee member Jon Laski suggested that a living checklist of calibration requirements, updatable as new models are introduced, could be a practical resource for shops.

For technicians and shop managers reviewing early 2022 developments, the winter AGSC meeting signaled that the informal understanding that calibration is "someone else's job" was giving way to a formal, standards-backed obligation. Shops that had not yet invested in calibration documentation processes were on notice that the industry's governing body was moving to make those processes a compliance requirement.

The practical urgency of the AGSC's January 2022 direction was reinforced by data emerging from the field: calibration-equipped shops were capturing meaningful additional revenue per vehicle—estimates ranged from $150 to $400 depending on system type—that non-calibration shops were routing to dealers or third parties. Every month a shop deferred calibration investment was a month of foregone revenue and a month further behind the compliance curve that the 005-2022 standard would eventually impose.