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# Standing General Order on Crash Reporting

For incidents involving ADS and Level 2 ADAS

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Standing General Order on Crash ReportingOverviewADSLevel 2 ADASDataFAQs

													Standing General Order on Crash Reporting													

                - Overview
                - ADS
                - Level 2 ADAS
                - Data
                - FAQs

# Overview

Standing General Order

The General Order is available for download. This version, amended in April 2023, supersedes the original Standing General Order.
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### Standing General Order

NHTSA has issued a Standing General Order (the General Order) requiring identified manufacturers and operators to report to the agency certain crashes involving vehicles equipped with automated driving systems or SAE Level 2 advanced driver assistance systems. The General Order allows NHTSA to obtain timely and transparent notification of real-world crashes associated with ADS and Level 2 ADAS vehicles from manufacturers and operators. With these data, NHTSA can respond to crashes that raise safety concerns about ADS and Level 2 ADAS technologies through further investigation and enforcement. If NHTSA finds a safety defect, it will take action to ensure that unsafe vehicles are taken off public roads or remedied, as appropriate.

NHTSA issued the General Order in June 2021 to evaluate whether the manufacturers of ADS and Level 2 ADAS systems and the vehicles equipped with them, including manufacturers of prototype vehicles and equipment, are meeting their statutory obligations to ensure that their vehicles and equipment are free of defects that pose unreasonable risks to motor vehicle safety. Prior to the implementation of the General Order, NHTSA’s sources of timely crash notifications were limited and generally inconsistent across manufacturers, including developers.

### Understanding the Differences: ADS vs Level 2 ADAS

Automated driving systems, still in development, encompass SAE Levels 3 through 5. In its mature state, a vehicle equipped with ADS aims to perform the entire dynamic driving task on a sustained basis within a defined operational design domain without driver involvement. While these vehicles are in development and are being tested on public roads in limited capacities, they are not available for consumer purchase at this time.

Level 2 advanced driver assistance systems provide both speed and steering input when the driver assistance system is engaged but require the human driver to remain fully engaged in the driving task at all times.

### Reporting Requirements

ADS: Entities named in the General Order must report a crash if ADS was in use at any time within 30 seconds of the crash and the crash resulted in property damage or injury.

Level 2 ADAS: Entities named in the General Order must report a crash if Level 2 ADAS was in use at any time within 30 seconds of the crash and the crash involved a vulnerable road user or resulted in a fatality, a vehicle tow-away, an air bag deployment, or any individual being transported to a hospital for medical treatment.

More information on the reporting requirements is available in the General Order.

### Data and Limitations

Understanding the terms and requirements of the General Order, the data it aims to obtain, and the limitations of those data are crucial for accurate interpretation and analysis. See the *Data* section on this webpage for important considerations when reviewing these data and other information.

# ADS

ADS SUMMARY REPORT

In 2022 NHTSA released a report on ADS crash data that the agency received under the General Order.
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Observations from reported crashes of ADS-equipped vehicles are presented in this section. It is important to note that these crashes are categorized based on what driving automation system was reported as being equipped on the vehicle, not on what system was reported to be engaged at the time of the incident. In some cases, reporting entities may mistakenly classify the onboard automation system as ADS when it is actually Level 2 ADAS (and vice versa). NHTSA is currently working with reporting entities to correct this information and to improve data quality in future reporting.

When multiple versions of a report exist from a specific entity, the values from the latest report are used. Reports where the latest *ADS Equipped?* field is blank or contains *Unknown*, *see Narrative* or *No *have not been included in these charts. There may be cases where more than one report is submitted for a crash, resulting in duplicate counts if sufficient information is not available to match the reports to the same crash.

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## ADS-Equipped Vehicles

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*Notes: The data in the above charts are through March 15, 2024. The totals in some charts may be greater than the number of crashes, because of several factors, including multiple sources for the same crash, multiple entities reporting the same crash, and multiple entities reporting the same crash but with different information. Also, vehicles could have collided with more than one object and damage may occur in several areas of a vehicle.*