This bill, the AV Safety Data Act, tells the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to make rules requiring certain manufacturers and operators to report data about vehicles with Automated Driving Systems (ADS) and Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). The bill defines covered entities (manufacturers or operators subject to a specific NHTSA order) and covered vehicles (vehicles with ADS or Level 2 ADAS).
Within 90 days after the law is passed, the NHTSA Administrator must issue regulations that require covered entities to submit: the information already required by the Third Amended Standing General Order 2021-01, and a monthly report for the prior month. The monthly report must include total miles traveled on public roads by covered vehicles (broken down by make, model, model year, major software version, road type, State and county, and whether an occupant was present). It must also include details about collisions that injured a vulnerable road user or occupants of other vehicles, and detailed information about any unplanned stoppage event. An "unplanned stoppage event" is when an ADS or Level 2 ADAS caused a vehicle to stop in a travel lane and need retrieval or assistance, or when it interfered with public transit, law enforcement, first responders, or a construction/work zone. Required details for unplanned stoppages include license plate and VIN, vehicle make/model/year/software, date/time/location (including latitude/longitude), road type, event description, environmental conditions, involvement of responders or transit, impact on people and vehicles, how the event was resolved, any intervention by the covered entity, and timing in seconds from start to resolution and from start to intervention.
Level 2 ADAS data may only be included if it was collected while the ADAS was engaged or in the 30 seconds before an unplanned stoppage, and Level 2 reports must not contain personally identifiable information about a human driver. Starting 120 days after the law is passed, NHTSA must publish all submitted information and reports on its website in a machine-readable format with datasets. Ten years after enactment, the Administrator may rescind or narrow these reporting rules, but not before that date; the Administrator may also revise the rules at any time in ways consistent with the law.
If you are a manufacturer or operator covered by the specified NHTSA order, you must provide monthly data about vehicle miles and specific events involving ADS or Level 2 ADAS. The public will be able to access those submitted reports and datasets on NHTSA's website beginning 120 days after the law is passed. For Level 2 ADAS, data is limited to times when the system was engaged or the 30 seconds before an unplanned stoppage, and driver personal identifying information is disallowed in those Level 2 reports. Unplanned stoppage reports will include vehicle identifiers such as license plate numbers and VINs.
If you are a member of the public, researchers, or a local official, the bill creates a source of machine-readable data about AV and ADAS miles and certain incidents, available from NHTSA.
No publicly available information on overall costs or funding levels is included in the bill text. The bill requires NHTSA to issue regulations within 90 days and to publish submitted reports in a machine-readable format starting 120 days after enactment, and it requires covered entities to produce monthly reports, but it does not include any cost estimates or appropriations.
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