Title: 21st Century Smart Cars Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
21st Century Smart Cars Act
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to prescribe federal motor vehicle safety standards that (1) establish minimum performance requirements for crash avoidance technologies; and (2) require all new passenger motor vehicles manufactured for sale in the United States, introduced or delivered for introduction in interstate commerce, or imported into the United States, to be equipped with the crash avoidance technologies.
DOT must also conduct advanced crash systems research into (1) driver monitoring systems that will minimize driver disengagement, prevent automation complacency, and account for foreseeable misuse of the automation; (2) lane keeping assistance that assists with steering to keep a vehicle within its driving lane; (3) intersection movement assistance; and (4) automatic crash data notification systems that notify emergency responders that a crash has occurred and provide the geographical location of the vehicle and crash data in a manner that allows for assessment of potential injuries and emergency response, and that transfer anonymized automatic crash data for the purposes of safety research and statistical analysis.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6284 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6284

To amend subchapter II of chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, 
    to require crash avoidance technologies, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2020

Ms. Schakowsky introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend subchapter II of chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, 
    to require crash avoidance technologies, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``21st Century Smart Cars Act''.

SEC. 2. CRASH AVOIDANCE RULEMAKING.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 301 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 30129. Crash avoidance rulemaking
    ``(a) In General.--Not later than 2 years after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue final rules 
prescribing Federal motor vehicle safety standards that--
            ``(1) establish minimum performance requirements for the 
        crash avoidance technologies described in subsection (b); and
            ``(2) require all new passenger motor vehicles manufactured 
        for sale in the United States, introduced or delivered for 
        introduction in interstate commerce, or imported into the 
        United States to be equipped with the crash avoidance 
        technologies described in subsection (b).
    ``(b) Crash Avoidance Technologies.--The Secretary shall issue 
Federal motor vehicle safety standards for each of the following crash 
avoidance technologies--
            ``(1) forward collision warning and automatic emergency 
        braking, including crash imminent braking and dynamic brake 
        support, that detects potential collisions with a vehicle, 
        object, pedestrian, bicyclist, and other vulnerable road user 
        while the vehicle is traveling forward, provides a warning to 
        the driver, and automatically applies the brakes to avoid or 
        mitigate the severity of an impact;
            ``(2) rear automatic emergency braking that detects a 
        potential collision with a vehicle, object, pedestrian, 
        bicyclist, and other vulnerable road user while a vehicle is 
        moving in reverse and automatically applies the brakes to avoid 
        or mitigate the severity of an impact;
            ``(3) rear cross traffic warning that detects vehicles, 
        objects, pedestrians, bicyclists, and other vulnerable road 
        users approaching from the side and rear of a vehicle as it 
        moves in reverse and alerts the driver;
            ``(4) lane departure warning that monitors a vehicle's 
        position in its lane and alerts the driver as the vehicle 
        approaches or crosses lane markers; and
            ``(5) blind spot warning that detects a vehicle, object, 
        pedestrian, bicyclist, and other vulnerable road user to the 
        side or rear of a vehicle and alerts the driver to their 
        presence, including when a driver attempts to change the course 
        of travel toward another vehicle or road user in the blind zone 
        of the vehicle.
    ``(c) Considerations.--In prescribing the Federal motor vehicle 
safety standards required in subsection (a), the Secretary shall ensure 
that the crash avoidance technologies perform effectively at speeds for 
which a passenger motor vehicle is reasonably expected to operate, 
including on city streets and highways.
    ``(d) Compliance Date.--The compliance date of the standards 
prescribed under subsection (a) shall not exceed more than two model 
years from the date final rules are issued.
    ``(e) Headlamps.--
            ``(1) Not later than two years after the date of enactment 
        of this Act, the Secretary shall issue a final rule that 
        revises Federal motor vehicle safety standard 108 to--
                    ``(A) improve illumination of the roadway;
                    ``(B) prevent glare; and
                    ``(C) establish minimum performance standards for--
                            ``(i) semi-automatic headlamp beam 
                        switching; and
                            ``(ii) curve adaptive headlamps.
            ``(2) The compliance date of the revised standard 
        prescribed under paragraph (1) shall not exceed more than two 
        model years from the effective date.
            ``(3) Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
        this Act, the Secretary shall finalize the Rulemaking (83 Fed. 
        Reg. 51766) to permit the certification of adaptive driving 
        beam headlighting systems.
    ``(f) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Crash avoidance.--The term `crash avoidance' has the 
        meaning given that term in section 32301.
            ``(2) Passenger motor vehicle.--The term `passenger motor 
        vehicle' has the meaning given to that term in section 
        32101.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The analysis for subchapter II of 
chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding after 
the item relating to section 30128 the following:

``30129. Crash avoidance rulemaking.''.

SEC. 3. RESEARCH OF ADVANCED CRASH SYSTEMS.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 301 of title 49, United 
States Code, as amended by section 2, is further amended by adding at 
the end the following:
``Sec. 30130. Advanced crash systems research and consumer education
    ``(a) Advanced Crash Systems Research.--
            ``(1) Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of 
        this Act, the Secretary shall complete research into the 
        following:
                    ``(A) Driver monitoring systems that will minimize 
                driver disengagement, prevent automation complacency, 
                and account for foreseeable misuse of the automation.
                    ``(B) Lane keeping assistance that assists with 
                steering to keep a vehicle within its driving lane.
                    ``(C) Intersection movement assistance.
                    ``(D) Automatic crash data notification systems 
                that--
                            ``(i) notify emergency responders that a 
                        crash has occurred and provide the geographical 
                        location of the vehicle and crash data in a 
                        manner that allows for assessment of potential 
                        injuries and emergency response; and
                            ``(ii) transfer to the Secretary anonymized 
                        automatic crash data for the purposes of safety 
                        research and statistical analysis.
            ``(2) Requirements.--In conducting the research required 
        under subsection (a), the Secretary shall--
                    ``(A) develop one or more tests to evaluate the 
                performance of the system;
                    ``(B) determine metrics that would be most 
                effective at evaluating the performance of the system; 
                and
                    ``(C) determine fail, pass or advanced pass 
                criteria to assure the systems are performing their 
                intended function.
            ``(3) Report.--The Secretary shall submit a report 
        detailing findings from the research required under subsection 
        (a) to the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate 
        Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee not later than 
        three years after the date of enactment of this Act.
            ``(4) Rulemaking.--Not later than four years after the date 
        of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue final rules 
        to establish Federal motor vehicle safety standards for the 
        advanced crash systems described in this subsection and to 
        require all new passenger motor vehicles manufactured for sale 
        in the United States produced after the effective date of such 
        standards to be equipped with advanced crash systems described 
        in this subsection.
    ``(b) Rulemaking on Point of Sale Information.--Not later than 18 
months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 
issue a final rule to require clear and concise information about the 
capabilities and limitations of an advanced driver assistance system to 
be provided to a consumer at the point of sale and in the vehicle 
owner's manual, including a publicly accessible electronic owner's 
manual.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The analysis for subchapter II of 
chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding after 
the item relating to section 30129, as added by section 2(b), the 
following:

``30130. Advanced crash systems research and consumer education.''.
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