AV Safety Data Act

The AV Safety Data Act would require the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to tighten and standardize incident reporting for certain autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles. Within 90 days of enactment, NHTSA would must issue regulations requiring each “covered entity” (manufacturers or operators subject to the Third Amended Standing General Order 2021-01) to submit to NHTSA: (1) information already required by that order, and (2) a detailed monthly report. The monthly report would cover total miles traveled on public roads by covered vehicles, broken down by vehicle make/model/model year and other factors; incidents involving injuries to vulnerable road users or other occupants; and unplanned stoppage events with comprehensive data fields (license plate, VIN, location, conditions, law enforcement involvement, outcomes, and timing of events and any interventions). For Level 2 ADAS data, the act limits submissions to data collected while the system was engaged or in the 30 seconds prior to an unplanned stoppage and excludes any personally identifiable information about the human driver. Public access to the submitted information would begin 120 days after enactment, and regulators could, after 10 years, rescind or scale back the reporting requirements. The bill also defines key terms and relies on existing orders for ADS/Level 2 reporting.