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The bill significantly expands public and regulatory access to ADS/ADAS exposure and incident data—improving oversight and safety analysis—while imposing compliance costs and raising privacy, security, and proprietary-competition risks.
State and local governments, researchers, and the public gain monthly, machine-readable ADS/ADAS exposure and incident data beginning 120 days after enactment, enabling better oversight, safety analysis, research, and potential rulemaking by agencies like NHTSA.
Manufacturers and operators must report granular vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT) by make/model/software, giving regulators and planners data to target safety interventions and increase transparency about where and how automated systems are used.
NHTSA receives detailed data on unplanned stoppages and collisions with vulnerable road users, improving road-safety analysis and enabling more informed enforcement or rulemaking to reduce crashes.
Covered manufacturers and operators face significant compliance costs and administrative burdens from detailed monthly reporting, costs that are likely to be passed on to consumers or taxpayers.
Public release of identifiers like license plates and VINs in datasets risks vehicle tracking, privacy invasion, or misuse even if driver PII is excluded.
Making detailed incident and location data publicly available could create security risks or enable misuse of information about vehicle operations in sensitive locations.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced January 29, 2026 by Edward John Markey · Last progress January 29, 2026
Requires the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to issue rules within 90 days forcing covered manufacturers and operators to send monthly, detailed exposure and incident data for vehicles with automated driving systems or Level 2 advanced driver assistance. Reports must include miles traveled broken down by make/model/software/road type/location/occupancy, collisions that injured vulnerable road users or occupants of other vehicles, and detailed records of any unplanned stoppage events; Level 2 ADAS data is limited to when the system was engaged or the 30 seconds before a stoppage and must exclude personally identifiable driver information. All submitted data must be published by NHTSA as machine-readable datasets beginning 120 days after enactment, and the agency may narrow reporting rules only after ten years (with limited ability to revise earlier consistent with the law).