SELF DRIVE Act

Bill: 116-hr-8350
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2020-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Aging
Air quality
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Department of Transportation
Disability and paralysis
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal preemption
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Lighting, heating, cooling
Manufacturing
Motor vehicles
Product safety and quality
Public transit
Research and development
Right of privacy
Rural conditions and development
State and local government operations
Technology assessment
Trade restrictions
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2020-09-23
text: 

Safely Ensuring Lives Future Deployment and Research In Vehicle Evolution Act or the SELF DRIVE Act

 
This bill establishes the federal role in ensuring the safety of highly automated vehicles by encouraging the testing and deployment of such vehicles. A 
highly automated vehicle
 is a motor vehicle, other than a commercial motor vehicle, that is equipped with an automated driving system capable of performing the entire dynamic driving task on a sustained basis. 
 
The bill preempts states from enacting laws regarding the design, construction, or performance of highly automated vehicles or automated driving systems unless such laws enact standards identical to federal standards. 
 
The Department of Transportation (DOT) must require safety assessment certifications for the development of a highly automated vehicle or an automated driving system. 
 
Manufacturers of highly automated vehicles must develop written cybersecurity and privacy plans for such vehicles prior to offering them for sale. 
 
The bill applies certain safety exemptions and testing standards to highly automated vehicles. 
 
DOT must (1) inform prospective buyers of highly automated vehicles of the capabilities and limitations of such vehicles; (2) establish the Highly Automated Vehicle Advisory Council to, among other things, develop guidance regarding mobility access for the disabled, elderly, and underserved populations; (3) require all new passenger motor vehicles less than 10,000 pounds to be equipped with a rear seat occupant alert system; and (4) research updated safety standards for motor vehicle headlamps.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2020-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-09-23
text: Introduced in House