‘‘(ii) necessary to operate the event 
data recorder database. 
‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY TO PUBLIC.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Except as pro-
vided in clause (ii), the data in the data-
base required by subparagraph (A) shall be 
available to the public. 
‘‘(ii) PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE IN-
FORMATION.—The Secretary shall ensure 
that the data made available to the public 
under clause (i) do not contain any infor-
mation that could be used to identify an 
owner, lessee, or occupant of a vehicle from 
whose event data recorder such data were 
obtained, including the full vehicle identi-
fication number of the vehicle, the name, 
mailing address, email address, or tele-
phone number of an owner, lessee, or occu-
pant, and any other information that is 
prohibited by law from disclosure or that 
the Secretary determines should be with-
held to protect individual privacy. 
‘‘(e) EVENT DATA RECORDER DEFINED.—For pur-
poses of this section, the term ‘event data recorder’ has 
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the meaning given such term in section 563.5(b) of title 
49, Code of Federal Regulations. 
‘‘§ 30130. Readability of data in event data recorders 
prior to model year 2012 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary of 
Transportation shall promulgate a rule that requires each 
motor vehicle manufacturer to ensure that the data re-
corded by an event data recorder in a vehicle of a model 
year prior to model year 2012 that is manufactured by 
such manufacturer are capable of being read by the Na-
tional Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Such rule 
shall apply to a vehicle manufactured prior to the effective 
date of such rule if such vehicle is equipped with an event 
data recorder but shall not require any vehicle, regardless 
of the date of manufacture, to be equipped with an event 
data recorder. 
‘‘(b) DATA CAPABLE OF BEING READ BY NHTSA.— 
For purposes of subsection (a), data in a motor vehicle’s 
event data recorder are capable of being read by the Na-
tional Highway Traffic Safety Administration if a rep-
resentative of the Administration who has physical access 
to the vehicle can, through the use of computer hardware 
and software, whether provided by the manufacturer of 
such vehicle or otherwise, gain access to such data in a 
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format that allows the Administration to analyze the safe-
ty performance of such vehicle. 
‘‘(c) EVENT DATA RECORDER DEFINED.—For pur-
poses of this section, the term ‘event data recorder’ has 
the meaning given such term in section 563.5(b) of title 
49, Code of Federal Regulations. 
‘‘(d) EFFECTIVE DATE OF RULE.—The rule promul-
gated under subsection (a) shall take effect not later than 
30 days after the date on which such rule is promulgated. 
‘‘§ 30131. Privacy of data in event data recorders 
‘‘(a) OWNERSHIP OF DATA.—The data stored in an 
event data recorder described in section 30129(a) or 
30130(a) are the property of the owner or lessee of the 
motor vehicle in which such event data recorder is in-
stalled. 
‘‘(b) ACCESS TO DATA.—The data stored in an event 
data recorder described in section 30129(a) or 30130(a) 
may not be accessed by any person other than the owner 
or lessee of the motor vehicle in which such event data 
recorder is installed, unless— 
‘‘(1) a court authorizes retrieval of the data in 
furtherance of a legal proceeding; 
‘‘(2) the owner or lessee of such motor vehicle 
consents to the retrieval of the data for any purpose, 
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including to diagnose, service, or repair such motor 
vehicle; or 
‘‘(3) the data are retrieved by a government 
motor vehicle safety agency for the purpose of im-
proving motor vehicle safety and the personally iden-
tifiable information of any owner, lessee, or occupant 
of such motor vehicle, including the vehicle identi-
fication number of such motor vehicle, is not publicly 
disclosed in connection with the data.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting 
after the item relating to section 30128 the following new 
items: 
30129. Event data recorders required for model year 2012 or later. 
30130. Readability of data in event data recorders prior to model year 2012. 
30131. Privacy of data in event data recorders. 
SEC. 4. REPORT ON FEASIBILITY OF AUTOMATIC TRANS-
MISSION OF EDR DATA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Trans-
portation shall submit to Congress a report on the feasi-
bility of requiring that, after the involvement in a crash 
event of a motor vehicle equipped with an event data re-
corder under section 30129(a) of title 49, United States 
Code, such event data recorder automatically transmit to 
the Secretary, in electronic form, the data recorded with 
respect to the crash event. 
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(b) CONTENTS OF REPORT.—The report required by 
subsection (a) shall include— 
(1) an analysis, with respect to the time when 
such analysis is conducted, of systems and capabili-
ties for automatic electronic transmission of event 
data recorder data in the event of a crash and the 
extent to which it is the practice of motor vehicle 
manufacturers to collect such data; 
(2) an analysis of any benefits, whether mone-
tary or nonmonetary, of maintaining a database con-
taining the data that would be automatically trans-
mitted to the Secretary under the requirement de-
scribed in subsection (a); 
(3) an analysis of the cost to motor vehicle 
manufacturers of complying with such requirement 
as compared to the cost of requiring the submission 
of the same information by means other than auto-
matic electronic transmission; 
(4) the Secretary’s recommendation of a rea-
sonable timeline for manufacturers to comply with 
the requirement described in subsection (a); and 
(5) an analysis of any privacy issues posed by 
such requirement and recommendations for how they 
might be addressed or eliminated. 
Æ 
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