“A bill to improve incident reporting with respect to certain autonomous vehicles, and for other purposes.”
No CRS summary available for this bill.
This section directs the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to promulgate, not later than 90 days after enactment, regulations requiring each covered entity (i.e., a manufacturer or operator subject to NHTSA's Third Amended Standing General Order 2021-01, which mandates reporting of crashes and incidents involving vehicles with automated driving systems (ADS) or Level 2 advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)) to submit to NHTSA (1) information required by the order and (2) monthly reports on the preceding month that include miles traveled by covered vehicles (disaggregated by make, model, model year, major software version, road type, location, and occupant presence), collisions injuring a vulnerable road user (as defined in 23 U.S.C. §148(a)) or an occupant of another vehicle, and details on any unplanned stoppage event (i.e., a stop or interference on public roads due to the ADS or Level 2 ADAS, excluding intentional human-caused collisions). For Level 2 ADAS reporting, data is limited to periods when the system was engaged or the 30 seconds preceding an unplanned stoppage event and excludes personally identifiable information on human drivers. Beginning 120 days after enactment, NHTSA must make all submitted information publicly available on its website in machine-readable format with datasets. Beginning 10 years after enactment, NHTSA may rescind or revise the regulations to reduce reporting frequency or scope (though it may revise them at any time consistent with the requirements).